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About This Book
Discover a powerful tool for navigating the ever-expanding digital swamp. The Digital Swamp Index will help educators wade through digital innovations in order to uncover tools that truly accelerate student achievement. Explore how to use the index to effectively implement technology and address the revolution occurring in education, which is generating a new nature of learning.
Benefits
• Learn the main components and subcomponents of the Digital Swamp Index.
• Ask evaluative questions that correspond to each area of the index.
• Consider what it means to get a green, amber green, amber red, or red rating on the index scale, and read about examples of these color ratings across the spectrum.
• Distinguish the main forces of the Stratosphere agenda.
• Gain guidance in using the index as a tool when conducting a workshop.
• Discover six strategies for "staying alive in the swamp.”
Topics : Assessment
Table Of Content
About the Authors
Chapter 1: Alive in the Swamp
The Push and Pull of Change
The Stratosphere Agenda
Hidden Dangers
What's the Pont of All This?
Chapter 2: The Digital Swamp Index
Pedagogy
Clarity and Quality of Intended Outcome
Quality of Pedagogy
Quality oب Assessment Platform
System Change
Implementation Support
Value for Money
Whole System Change Potential
Technology
Quality of User Experience and Model Design
Ease of Adaptation
Comprehensiveness and Integration
Chapter 3: Using the Index
Application
Conducting a Workshop
Chapter 4: The Learning Revolution in Education
References
About the Authors
Michael Fullan:
Michael Fullan is professor emeritus of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto. Recognized as a worldwide authority on educational reform, Fullan is engaged in training, consulting, and evaluating change projects around the world, and his books have been published in many languages.
Fullan is currently Special Advisor to the Premier and Minister of Education in Ontario. His book Leading in a Culture of Change was awarded the 2002 Book of the Year Award by Learning Forward (formerly the National Staff Development Council), and Breakthrough (with Peter Hill and Carmel Crévola) won the 2006 Book of the Year Award from the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education. His latest books are The Six Secrets of Change (Jossey-Bass), What’s Worth Fighting For in the Principalship (Teachers College Press), and (with Geoff Scott) Turnaround Leadership in Higher Education (Jossey-Bass).
Among his Corwin titles are Realization: The Change Imperative for Deepening District-Wide Reform (with Lyn Sharratt), Breakthrough (with Peter Hill and Carmel Crévola), Leadership & Sustainability: System Thinkers in Action, the second edition of The Challenge of Change: Start School Improvement Now! and the new All Systems Go.
A list of his widely acclaimed books, articles, and other resources can be found at www.michaelfullan.ca.
Katelyn Donnelly:
Katelyn Donnelly is an investor and entrepreneur. Katelyn is a co-founder and director of Delivery Associates, the leading public sector advisory firm implementing technology and large-scale reform all over the world. She is an angel investor and venture scout for several early-stage funds. Constantly curious, she’s invests in and advises entrepreneurs building companies, deemed ‘pre-avalanche’, taking advantage of a structural change. This includes a wide range of sectors including coding bootcamps, carbon capture, enterprise SaaS, femtech, subscription retail, and several more.
Previously, she co-founded and served as the Managing Director of Pearson Ventures (prior PALF), a $65M venture fund that invests in seed and series A companies. Katelyn also led strategy and implementation of Pearson’s global efficacy strategy and was on the founding team of the FT125 Club, a division of the Financial Times.
Katelyn currently serves on Duke University's Learning Innovation Advisory Council, helping Duke imagine the future of learning both on-campus and online. She is an active advisor to several startups including Coding Dojo, The Social Institute, and Uplift Groups.
Katelyn started as a consultant at McKinsey in San Francisco serving technology companies and large banks and asset managers. She worked on credit market sustainability with the World Economic Forum and presented at the Annual Meeting in Davos in 2011.
ISBN: 9786038147580
Author: Michael Fullan & Katelyn Donnelly
Publisher: Educational Book House
Publish Year: 2018
Size: 17*24cm
Pages number: 80
