Full Description
Schools are now at a boiling point for change, about to incorporate technology as never before in our nation's classrooms. For this to happen, the input of savvy business managers is required. Managing Technology in Our Schools is for those who will not only be responsible for managing and financing technology budgets, but for providing the leadership to govern. The book reflects on the last thirteen years of schools' roundabout progress and uses the lessons learned to identify best practices for managing and financing the next wave of technology purchases and application. It highlights the perseverance and persistence that adopting technology required from the beginning and what is needed today as using technology matures from a hyped-up dream into an established, solid support and tool for teaching.
To do this, the book will explore schools' political, economic, physical, and staff realities that business management must address in order to continue the process of educating the next generation of technology savvy, intellectual, and problem solving workers. The thoughts in this book are from the perspective of an observer, watching schools and teachers as they pioneer electronic curriculum. These observations show the complexity and the need for forward-thinking management that can be mediators amongst stakeholders, fostering technology as a tool not the mythical silver bullet. It also shows that the next large purchases in technology will be electronic curriculums and deliver a wide variety of materials that employ different teaching techniques.
Contents
Chapter 1 Technology Meanders In
Chapter 2 The First Buyers: Early Adopters of Technology
Chapter 3 Managing Innovation
Chapter 4 The Other Stakeholders
Chapter 5 Managing the Stakeholders
Chapter 6 The Path of Getting Computers into the Classroom
Chapter 7 The Perfect Learning Environment
Chapter 8 Enter the Techies
Chapter 9 Managing Chaos
Chapter 10 What Business Managers Need to Know from Technical Staff
Chapter 11 Students Among the Chaos
Chapter 12 Matching Technology with the Learning Environment
Chapter 13 Before Buying Technology
Chapter 14 Successful Classroom Models for Adapting Technology
Chapter 15 What Electronic Materials Need to Be
Chapter 16 The Leadership Role of Business Managers
Chapter 17 And Then There Was Mosaic
