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How do you become a 21st
Century Leader?
Be a Digital-Age Learner!
Dr. Stephen Kay
San Jose State University
Educational Leadership
“Only through ‘Future Focused’
leadership are we going to bring our
schools out of the 20th century.”
Gary Marx
Rip Van Winkle
Classrooms: Yesterday and Today!
Crayons
“Can you believe… They still come 8 to a box!”
#2 Pencils
“Ours came with little erasers, too!”
Chalkboard Eraser!
“I used to ‘bang’ those together to clean them!”
Chalk
“Multi colored? – That new!”
5-1/4” Floppy Disk!
“What do you use those for – coasters?
TIME Magazine –
December 18, 2006
“American schools aren’t exactly frozen in time,
but considering the pace of change in other areas
of life, our public schools tend to feel like
throwbacks. Kids spend much of the day as their
great-grandparents once did: sitting in rows,
listening to teacher lecture, scribbling notes by
hand, reading from textbooks that are out of date
by the time they are printed. A yawning chasm
(with an emphasis on yawning) separates the
world inside the schoolhouse from the world
outside.”
“Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants”
Marc Prensky
X-Gen with their iKids!
iKids at Home!
Mom’s Favorite
Kitchen Appliance!
Mom’s cooking dinner!
“I love Rachael Ray’s
30 Minute Meals!!”
Preschooler wants Disney!
Disney Preschool!
Third grader is doing homework!
Needs to print a map of California
Mom wants Rachael!
30 Minute Meals!!
Preschooler wants Disney!
Third grader wants to print!
“I need to do my homework!”
Third grader wants to print!
3rd Grader asks, “Mom can I use
the Ink Jet Printer?
Mom says, “Absolutely not! You know
how much ink costs… Use the laser printer
the ink is cheaper!”
These iKids are very different!!??!!
Marc Prensky –
October 2001
“It is amazing to me how in all the hoopla
and debate these days about the decline of
education in the US, we ignore the most
fundamental of its causes.”
“Our students have changed radically.
Today’s students are no longer the people
our educational system was designed to
teach.”
“Change is inevitable.
- Progress is optional.”
Anonymous
She said, “Honey! Can you pick up the cleaning?”
He said, “I’m busy. I’m visiting a middle school!”
She said, “They’re your shirts!”
Dry Cleaner
Local Middle School
Trumped by the
Jack in the Box – Kiosk!
Gary Marks –
Future Focused Leadership
“The challenge is clear. For anyone in any
profession – but especially all educators – creating
a future is the essence of leadership. None of us,
nor our organizations, can be frozen in time.
Instead, we need to see ourselves as works in
progress. Unless we constantly lead the process
for shaping a future, someone else will do it for
us.”
“The world will not stand still.
It’s that simple … and that complex.”
Digital Natives need Digital Leaders
“School leaders must become digital
learners.”
“Administrators who lack a fluent
understanding of the tools that are redefining
learning can’t provide high levels of
instructional leadership to their faculties.”
Bill Ferriter
-Educational Leadership, October 2009
“To date, U.S. elementary
and secondary schools have
marginalized technology.”
“Many school districts still restrict their
students use of such Web 2.0 tools as
social networking sites, chat rooms, blogs,
wikis, visual media, instant messaging
and texting, virtual worlds, and interactive
games. Instead of requiring our students
to check their Web 2.0 technologies at the
schoolhouse door, we should teach them
how to use these tools for learning.”
- Cheryl Lemke & Ed Coughlin,
Educational Leadership, September 2009
Calling for
Digital Age Leadership!
Change is coming fast!
Rethinking education!
Teaching a new generation!
“Technology has added a
new level of responsibility
for school leaders.”
“It is important to move past any
reservations and discomforts to prepare
students for the futures they deserve. Now
is the time for educational leader 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 the tools for learning and
teaching. The future is already here, and we
have to welcome the opportunities it brings
to reshape instruction.”
Lotta Lawson, Teresa Miller, & Mike Ribble
-Leading & Learning, December/January
2009-10
“How can I pay attention to the future
when the present is taking up all my time?”
Think beyond the ‘Top of
the Desk’ issues
“One way educators can redirect
their attention, given the blizzard of
pressing issues of the day, is to
add an ongoing challenge in the
form of a question.
Consider this…
Students that start Kindergarten in
Fall 2010 will graduate…
• From High-School in 2023
•From College in 2027
•And celebrate their 65th birthday in
2070!
What are the implications
for education?
“Initiate a shared vision
that embeds tech integration
into all aspects of learning
and teaching”
“Leadership for transformation requires
redefining the critical work leaders must
accomplish and supports the use of
strategies grounded in communication
and collaboration to achieve defined
goals. These leaders believe their
primary purpose is to meet the
instructional needs of all their students.
They take the initiative, anticipate
problems, and recognize when change is
or is not taking place. They are willing to
try out new ideas and strategies,
abandon approaches that do not work,
and encourage others to follow suit.”
- National Educational Technology
Standards for Administrators (NETS-A)
National Educational Technology
Standards for Administrators (NETS-A)
1. Visionary Leadership
2. Digital Age Learning Culture
3. Systemic Improvement
4. Excellence in Professional Practice
5. Digital Citizenship
Digital Age Leadership @ San Jose State University
Educational Leadership Department
Most School Administrators don’t know:
•What it means to prepare students for the 21st century
•How to recognize, evaluate, and facilitate effective technology
use by students and teachers
•What appropriate technology support structures (budget,
staffing, infrastructure) look like
•How to use modern technologies to facilitate communication
with internal and external stakeholders
•The ways in which learning technologies can improve student
learning outcomes
•How to use technology systems to make their organization
more efficient and effective
Dr. Scott McLeod, Iowa State University
Leadership 3.0 Symposium,
April 15-17 in Santa Clara
How do you become a 21st
Century Leader?
Be a Digital-Age Learner!
Dr. Stephen Kay
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