4.1 Digital Equity
Candidates model and promote strategies for achieving equitable access to digital tools and resources and technology-related best practices for all students and teachers.
Candidates model and promote strategies for achieving equitable access to digital tools and resources and technology-related best practices for all students and teachers.
Artifact - SWOT Analysis
The SWOT Analysis I completed for ITEC 7410, Instructional Technology Leadership, meets this standard because it required me to examine the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats to equitable access to digital tools and resources in my school and identify technology-related best practices for all students and teachers. To complete this assignment I interviewed my principal, examined the school system technology plan, and surveyed the few teachers I was able to contact over the summer.
I examined how my school measured against ISTE's eight essential conditions to effectively leverage technology for learning. A large part of this assignment was data collection and analysis in order to improve practice and performance in the classroom. Due to the lack of a technology plan in my school and the fact that I conducted this analysis over the summer, I had to rely largely on an interview with my principal, my personal experience with technology in my school, and the few teachers who responded to my survey on Facebook. I also located the school system technology plan online.
Through review of these sources, it was able to identify the strengths and weaknesses of technology integration in my schools' classrooms and devising strategies or opportunities for improvement and ways to avoid threats to technology, I modeled and promoted ways to achieve equitable access for 21st Century Learning. Though my school system has made improvements to technology, they continue to lag behind area school systems. We have frequent network down times and still operate Window XP which is so old it is no longer supported by Microsoft. My principal is adding SMART Board technology to the classrooms as budgets allow, but there is no clear vision or plan to technology development at the school level.
Conducting my SWOT analysis helped me improve as a technology coach by increasing my background knowledge of the essential conditions necessary for effective technology integration. It helped hone my leadership skills as I analyzed the current situation and developed strategies for improvement which I can now share with my peers as we develop plans for school improvement. I learned the steps to articulating a vision and technology plan that will impact school improvement and student learning and achievement because it is aligned with research-based best practices. I am now very familiar with essential conditions for leveraging technology integration in my school. If I had to conduct another SWOT analysis, I would do so during the school year when I could more easily solicit the input of teachers and students in my school.
The work I completed for this artifact will impact school improvement by providing a base from which to direct future improvements in technology integration in my school. As head of the Technology Committee in my school this year, I have already shared this project with my committee members and used it as a starting point for writing our technology plan.
I examined how my school measured against ISTE's eight essential conditions to effectively leverage technology for learning. A large part of this assignment was data collection and analysis in order to improve practice and performance in the classroom. Due to the lack of a technology plan in my school and the fact that I conducted this analysis over the summer, I had to rely largely on an interview with my principal, my personal experience with technology in my school, and the few teachers who responded to my survey on Facebook. I also located the school system technology plan online.
Through review of these sources, it was able to identify the strengths and weaknesses of technology integration in my schools' classrooms and devising strategies or opportunities for improvement and ways to avoid threats to technology, I modeled and promoted ways to achieve equitable access for 21st Century Learning. Though my school system has made improvements to technology, they continue to lag behind area school systems. We have frequent network down times and still operate Window XP which is so old it is no longer supported by Microsoft. My principal is adding SMART Board technology to the classrooms as budgets allow, but there is no clear vision or plan to technology development at the school level.
Conducting my SWOT analysis helped me improve as a technology coach by increasing my background knowledge of the essential conditions necessary for effective technology integration. It helped hone my leadership skills as I analyzed the current situation and developed strategies for improvement which I can now share with my peers as we develop plans for school improvement. I learned the steps to articulating a vision and technology plan that will impact school improvement and student learning and achievement because it is aligned with research-based best practices. I am now very familiar with essential conditions for leveraging technology integration in my school. If I had to conduct another SWOT analysis, I would do so during the school year when I could more easily solicit the input of teachers and students in my school.
The work I completed for this artifact will impact school improvement by providing a base from which to direct future improvements in technology integration in my school. As head of the Technology Committee in my school this year, I have already shared this project with my committee members and used it as a starting point for writing our technology plan.