Educational Leaders As Technology Leaders:
Technology Literacy Skill Development
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Holly Ellis, Byron Havard, Nancy Hastings, Ashley McArthur, University of West Florida, United States
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference, in Savannah, GA, United States ISBN 978-1-939797-13-1 Publisher: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE), Waynesville, NC USA
Abstract
Educational leaders are seen as the technology leaders in schools (Gosmire & Grady, 2007; Creighton, 2003). Part of the educational leader’s responsibility is to promote technology literacy in schools; many need the opportunity to explore this role before assuming it (Chang, Chin, & Hsu, 2008). Students (n = 270) in 15 sections of an online graduate course participated in a discussion which focused on the role of the leader in technology literacy skill development. Davies’ (2010) model served as the conceptual framework and the guiding data analysis. Data were analyzed using a variety of strategies, and major themes emerged. As the first in the series, this study primarily sought to identify the kinds of themes that would emerge and the kinds of key words which were used to represent these themes. Future studies will focus on how these themes interact in more complex, multifaceted manners and will discover relationships among the themes.
Citation
Ellis, H., Havard, B., Hastings, N. & McArthur, A. (2016). Educational Leaders As Technology Leaders: Technology Literacy Skill Development. In G. Chamblee & L. Langub (Eds.), Proceedings of Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference (pp. 1210-1216). Savannah, GA, United States: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). Retrieved September 22, 2023 from https://www.learntechlib.org/primary/p/172328/.
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