Digital Age LeadershipSamantha Morra

Techspo 2013Twitter: @sammorra

Leading & Learning "Technology has added a new level of responsibility for school leaders. Many consider themselves unprepared or unqualified to identify and integrate technology in their own practice. It is important to move past any reservations and discomforts to prepare students for the futures they deserve. Now is the time for educational leaders to focus the conversation on how technology fits within their classrooms to best meet their students’ needs. If we want our children to be competitive on a global level in the 21st century, we need to be visibly using and talking about these tools for learning and teaching."

The future is already here, and we have to welcome the opportunities it brings to reshape instruction.

5 Considerations for Digital Age Leaders: What Principals and District Administrators Need to Know about Tech Integration Today, Leading & Learning with Technolgy, December/January 2009–10

Web 2.0/Social Media

“A whole new Web is emerging from the wilds of cyberspace. It's no longer all about idly surfing and passively reading, listening, or watching. It's about doing: sharing, socializing, collaborating, and, most of all creating.”

Shift Happens

Technology is Ubiquitous

Question?

How do the changes in our information & social landscape

change how we lead in the digital age?

Why look at Social Media

Technology is ubiquitous.

Communication

Collaboration

Branding

Attitude

Fear of Mistakes

Social Media - Uses

InstructionSchool PrideProfessional DevelopmentCommunity OutreachGlobal Awareness

Let's Start With Twitter

Twitter is a free Web 2.0 social networking service that allows users to send and receive messages known as

tweets.

USERNAME FULL NAME

PROFILE

FOLLOWERS

FOLLOWING

AVATAR

TWEET

MENTION HASHTAG

The Language of Twitter@

Reply sent to a specific person but visible to all.

RTRe-Tweet or resending another persons tweet.

Retweets are an extremely important part of twitter because it allows interesting ideas and news items to spread quickly.

DDirect message in private to a specific person.

You can only DM a person who is following you.

#Hashtag designating a topic as in #techspo

Why Use Twitter

Twitter for communication

Twitter for Professional Growth

Why I Value Twitter

My PLN - Personal Learning NetworkSearch for InformationReflective PracticeGlobal and Local PerspectivesInstant FeedbackNewsroomShowcaseProfessional DevelopmentTogether We Are Better

Who should you follow?

Start with conferences you attend:https://twitter.com/NJASANews

or speakers/authors you are inspired by:https://twitter.com/Pogue

Follow hashtags:#techspo

Web 2.0/Social Media

“A whole new Web is emerging from the wilds of cyberspace. It's no longer all about idly surfing and passively reading, listening, or watching. It's about doing: sharing, socializing, collaborating, and, most of all creating.”

Technology is Ubiquitous

Use to teach & foster empathyEmpathy as THE 21st Century Skill

What is Leadership?

What is Leadership?

http://tinyurl.com/whatisleadershiptechspo

Define leadership in a way that is meaningful to you!

Share and learn from others!

Remember:

Technology is a tool.A good tool in the hands

of a caring educator can work magic.