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Overcoming Application Overload

In an article at CIO Insight this week, Overcoming Application Overload, author Dennis McCafferty asks us if we need to revise our policies on keeping software applications. He says that too many companies are keeping applications that are obsolete and no longer return value. The article suggests that tech departments have to retire those applications [...]

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21 Things That Will Become Obsolete in Education by 2020

This article, 21 Things That Will Become Obsolete in Education by 2020, by Shelley Blake-Plock, asks us to envision schools without desks, homework, paper, High School Algebra I, and computers (as we know them). Many in our field (that intersection of education and technology) will nod and cheer as they read. I wonder, though, how [...]

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Looking Forward

I was talking to one of my colleagues (another Technology Director in Massachusetts) recently about the different levels of support for technology initiatives we have encountered over the years, especially in terms of support from the superintendent. She is working with a new superintendent who has taken a pretty strong stance on implementing technology, 21st [...]

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Technology Leadership – More

In this series of posts I am sharing DRAFT work of the ETAC and asking for your help. Please help us through your comments here by adding to the description or by supplying us with a vignette. The vignette can be a very brief example or a “day in the life” – whatever you feel [...]

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Technology Leadership – Technology Director (CIO, CTO)

In this series of posts I am sharing DRAFT work of the ETAC and asking for your help. Please help us through your comments here by adding to the description or by supplying us with a vignette. The vignette can be a very brief example or a “day in the life” – whatever you feel [...]

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Technology Leadership – School Committee

In this series of posts I am sharing DRAFT work of the ETAC and asking for your help. Please help us through your comments here by adding to the description or by supplying us with a vignette. The vignette can be a very brief example or a “day in the life” – whatever you feel [...]

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Technology Leadership – State Board of Education

In this series of posts I am sharing DRAFT work of the ETAC and asking for your help. Please help us through your comments here by adding to the description or by supplying us with a vignette. The vignette can be a very brief example or a “day in the life” – whatever you feel [...]

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Technology Leadership

I am a member of a group, ETAC,  that is an advisory committee to the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. A number of us are working together on a white paper about Technology Leadership. We think of technology leadership as a shared responsibility that all members of our educational communities need to contribute [...]

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Leadership Series: John Kotter

John Kotter says that organizations have to transform themselves in order to survive. Organizations need to learn and grow in order to keep pace with the changing culture, economics, and global competition. He asserts that effective leadership is necessary to accomplish this and he articulates the following eight key steps that leaders must go through [...]

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What do Effective Leaders Do?

What do effective leaders do? Is there some elusive quality that good leaders possess? Something they are born with, that others can’t learn? I read about leadership a lot. I have some favorite authors, many of whom deal with leading change. As an educational technology leader, I recognize that much of what I do is [...]

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