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Technology and Digital Educational Leadership The Future of Education
This book explores the complex landscape of technology and education, particularly on how students learn, and educators teach. It uncovers effective approaches to harness technology's potential while safeguarding the core values of education.
The contributors in this volume are educational leaders engaged in education policy, practice, and research. In each chapter they focus on the integration of artificial intelligence, online learning, and distance education prompted by global events like the COVID-19 pandemic, and provide insights, strategies, and case studies to help readers navigate this dynamic landscape effectively. The chapters offer clarity to complex issues and offer evidence-informed practices for shaping technology integration and digital leadership in the years ahead.
The book will be of relevance to educational leaders, scholars, policymakers, and educators who are preparing for a future shaped by rapid technological change. It can also be a supplementary reading to those interested in staying abreast of the evolving educational landscape or enhancing their understanding of technology and digital leadership's role in shaping the future of learning.
Contents
List of figures
List of tables
Acknowledgements
Preface
About the editors
List of contributors
1 Shaping the Future: Digital Leadership and the Transformation of Education
Donnie Adams
2 Leading a Digital Future: Strategies for the Schools of Tomorrow
David Gurr
3 Leveraging Artificial Intelligence to Transform Leadership Development
Donnie Adams, Kee-Man Chuah, and Pauline Thompson
4 Leading Technology and Deeper Learning in Schools
Justin Bathon and Jayson W. Richardson
5 Developing Leadership for Edtech as Team-Based Instructional Leadership
Sara Dexter
6 Building a Data Culture: The Perspectives of Australian School Leaders
Pauline Thompson, Robert Sbaglia, and Helen Stokes
7 School Leaders Empowering Rural Schools in Pakistan with
Digital Inclusion in Classrooms
Muhammad Mujtaba Asad and Mansoor Hussain
8 Leading the Digitalisation Process of Teacher Recruitment in International Schools
Sok Yee Leong and Hamdan Said
9 Charting Digital Leadership Paths: Teacher Leaders in a Chinese Turnaround School
Qi Xiu, Peng Liu, and Xuyang Li
10 Navigating Technological Challenges: School Leaders in the Digital Age
Lokman Mohd Tahir, Siti Nisrin Mohd Anis, Mohd Fadzli Ali, and
Mohanasyri Nanchappan
11 From Crisis to Flourishing: Exploring Principals' Digital Leadership on
Teachers' Motivation and Commitment
Tahani Hassan and Izhak Berkovich
12 Ethical and Responsible Technology Use among Digital Leaders in Education:
A Multiple Case Study
Dorothy DeWitt and Norlidah Alias
13 A Call to Lead Boldly and Imaginatively
Donnie Adams and David Gurr
Biography
Donnie Adams is based at the Faculty of Education, University of Melbourne. He was recently awarded the Emerald Young Researcher Award 2021 by Emerald Publishing. He is Editor-in-Chief for Educational Research and Evaluation and Editor for Cogent Education.
David Gurr is a Professor of Educational Leadership in the Faculty of Education at the University of Melbourne. David is a prolific writer and presenter focussed on all aspects of educational leadership, including successful school leadership and middle leadership.
“This book offers remarkable, evidence-based insights for school leaders in a wide range of contexts about how to make productive use of multiple technologies for improving their students’ educational experiences and their own organizational management.”
Professor Kenneth Leithwood, University of Toronto, Canada
“Finally, a book that shows how technology leadership is really about instructional leadership! Drawing on years of research and fieldwork, the authors offer a practical and conceptual roadmap for school leaders who want to build equitable, sustainable systems for technology-rich learning. This is the rare book that treats technology not as a trend or a threat, but as a powerful set of tools with guidance for how leaders can improve teaching and learning in schools.”
Professor Richard Halverson, University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States.
“Adams and Gurr have compiled in this volume an eclectic and utterly fascinating collection of global perspectives on school leadership and technology. This book is both wide-ranging and deep. Whether you're interested in artificial intelligence, online learning, digital equity, or deeper learning, I guarantee that you'll find multiple chapters that stretch your thinking about education and learning technologies. As we bravely face the disruptions that digital tools are wreaking on our schools and other human systems, this edited volume is an important call to action that will find a primary place on your leadership shelf.”Professor Scott McLeod, University of Colorado Denver; Founding Director, CASTLE
