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Welcome to our Wiki "Truly Digital" This private Wiki has been created to be used for invited participants to access information and collaborate online as we seek to become a 'truly digital" school.  Some initial readings, reflections

Some serious dreaming re :

Student Management  Communication   Timetabling   Assessment and Reporting   Resource Management   Human Resource Management   Learning Management   Commercially available solutions

Vision/objective setting  Priority setting Knowledge Revolution

New knowledge is being generated at an exponential rate. The duration of knowledge was once measured in lifetimes. Today, in many fields, the life of knowledge is measured in years or even months.

As a consequence it is hard to keep up to date. Much of what teachers and learners learnt at university is redundant when it comes time to apply it. The new reality is that school leaders need not only to be learning __new knowledge, but unlearning__ some of what they learnt before because the old knowledge and practices are holding them back. School Leaders as Responsible Leaders in Technology (Lee and Gaffney 2009)

Along with quality teachers, the effective development of a digital school requires senior school leaders who not only understand contemporary technology but also take and maintain responsibility for that technology and its use. Leaders of a digital school should have significant operator knowledge and hands-on experience with the technologies in order to appreciate the requirements and implications associated with a school's full adoption of digital technologies. The costs and implcations of major technology decisions are too significant for these to be either under-informed or delegated. One might hypothesise that as the sophistication of the technlogy increases so to will the necessity of leadership expertise to make the best use of it. This underscores the overriding importance of ongoing professional learning not only for teachers but also for senior leaders in schools. Without this learning, the choice of technology and hardware becomes irrelevant.