Classification: (E – leadership) (E – digital schooling)

A Review of New Technologies and their Implications for Schools and Learning

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This presentation was presented by Professor Michael Hough at the Third National Leading a Digital School Conference in 2009.

Description: This session will provide an overview of the new “Knowledge Revolutions” which are generating change in a modern economy, and stress that ICT based technologies are only one of a set of new knowledge based technologies which will impinge on schools and learning. It will review the likely changes created by non ICT based knowledge technologies such as genetic engineering, nano-technologies, long cycle systems, and the challenges of providing effective leadership skills for modern schools that prepare themselves to deal with these change capabilities. It will particularly emphasize the emerging genetic bases of learning, and review the implications for schooling of learning models based on deliberate changes in DNA/ RNA structures.

Classification: (E – leadership) (E – digital schooling)

Developing Leadership Capabilities in Staff

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This presentation was presented by Professor Michael Hough at the Third National Leading a Digital School Conference in 2009.

Description: This session will focus on the current dilemmas and challenges of providing effective leadership skills for modern schools with digital ICT capabilities. It will review the selected challenges of engaging different generations of staff in ICT based learning, and recommend strategies for effective leadership of ICT based schools. It will particularly focus on the issues of how to select relevance and appropriateness of new ICT based proposals, and suggest ways to implement leadership policies which enable senior staff to remain accountable whilst all the changes enabled by ICT based learning are occurring within a school.