Tech Planning

Tech Planning

• Understanding of Tech Planning
• Relevance of Tech Planning

Understanding of Tech Planning

• Do you have a dept plan for IT?
• Is your dept plan a Tech Plan? (any diff?)
• What constitute a Tech Plan

Tech Planning
Scan

• Internal (BY(i)TES)
• External (Tech Scan)

Goals

• Align to sch's vision
• priortise due to constraints
• maximise affordancs of IT to achieve ednal goals

Development

• 5'C's (connectivity, curriculum, capacity, communication, cash)
• 3'S' (Sustainability, Scalability, Scaffolding)
• Lead Team

Maximise affordancs of IT to achieve ednal goals
What does it mean?
? Productivity
- achieve traditional Lg outcomes in a faster and better way

? Effectiveness
- Teacher teach better; students learn better

Broaden Learning goals
- Achieve extending Lg outcomes

IT USES
Literacy, Adapting & Transforming
Lietracy Use - Do-able

• Learning software, hardware
• Learning Keyboarding

Adaptive Use - Optional

• "use it for something, anything...just use it"
• Drill & Practice with content software
• Learning assessment unchaged
• Teachers view technology as interesting but optional and unnecessary toa chieve present curriculum goals

Transforming - essential

• reculturing Learning Tasks
• simulations, focus on "what if"
• community Learning tools for collective learning
• electronics Portfolios
• pdtivity tools to conduct inquiries, construct meaning & produce info

• technology enables new Learning tasks not possible without techy
• student roles expand to be explorers, producers of knowledge, communications and self-directed learners

Essence of Tech Planning:
Maximise Affordance of IT

5 'C's for IT Implementation

• connectivity to hardware, software, downloading time, borrowing equipment, minds of people - to plan & support (20-30% of staff),
• Capacity - training of leaders, teachers, understanding the rationale of the IT Plan
• Communication - stakeholders from students, parents to teachers, school leaders (rationale, purpose, cost, how does the IT plan is impactful & work for them)
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  3 'S's for IT Implementation
  Sustainability? Vendor programs can sustain as long as there is cash. Qn: If it is so important in the students' learning, why then is the teacher not able to teach it? What is the existence of the teacher for?
  Scalability - scaling the program for implementation (start small & succeed?)
  Scaffolding - what support to give at different levels?
  
  Relevance of Tech Planning
  Why is Tech Planning important?
  Why is IT Integration important?
  - survival of nation (employability)
  
  Some Reasons:
  ROI - Returns of Investment
  KBE
• Tech Advancement
• Globalisation
• Worklife Skills

• engage pupils's interest / empower the pupil
• make learning relevant