Enhancing Positive Educational Change and leadership via technology

Technology growth has had a great impact on the changes, leadership, and information technology implementation in the learning institutions. Fullan (2001) proves that successful change of leadership perspective in the learning institution must modify the environment so as to invite conducive sharing and learning via the ICT. This is because of the contributions to the globally accepted policies, practices and the learning based on digital devices and networks. The process of interfacing technology with leadership in learning and educational sectors is gradually gaining popularity (ITEA, 2001).

It is very critical for all the education leadership to embrace and utilize the available instructional technologies that are based on modern technology. This is essential for accessing, locating vital information and finally creating and disseminating new knowledge to the learners. The reason behind these is the fact that students must be prepared adequately to occupy an environment fitted with ICT components and services. The other reason is to make the student emerge competitive by the use of ICT. Finally is the zeal to make the education system more efficient and effective (ITEA, 2001).

Stiroh (2001) credited technology growth as a very important force that drives the improved and productive businesses. He also judged that the increased U.S. labour force and the gradual rise in computing and communication technology is attributed to good leadership. This is because IT is the major force behind its productivity and that the U.S. productiveness is neither a onetime occurrence nor a cyclic but an ongoing process. Therefore, the vigorous relationship between IT productivity and leadership in education is very fundamental and cannot be neglected.

Specific issue

While dealing with leadership, there are various issues that good leaders must focus on. In essence, the leadership concern to the IT in education and learning system must be based on two fundamental aspects. These aspects include:

Technology

The technology wraps up the human engagement in innovative actions that are likely to generate new knowledge. The knowledge that is generated is sequentially used in the process of developing systems that solves problems and the challenges that is faced in real time situations and also to improve the human capabilities. These innovations are very useful and indeed applicable in rendering quality leaderships to not only students but also in all walks of life.

Educational technology

Use of the modern technologies such as multimedia, animations, graphical illustrations, internets can provide a valuable source of information to the leaders other than enabling them acquire the readily available leadership from the modern and ever growing technology. These accelerate the process of learning. Comprehension, reading and language can be propelled by the use of ICT in phonological, reading, vocabulary, writing, comprehension and spelling.

Research Methodology

To perform a comprehensive literature review, it is necessary to indentify and ascertain the best source of materials that helps in the extensive review. This assist in the interpretation, identification and analyzing the published and unpublished literatures from different authors and through the use of checklists available in the internet. Over the internet, there exist several literatures that have been published and store in achieves which are very valuable while conducting a research project. The major source include the internet goggle books which is a major source of achieved electronic books some of which are premium other which provide previews only. Other than goggle books, there are also several website that act as achieves for unpublished and published thesis from different scholars such as goggle scholars, articles and publications that is easily accessible to the researcher.

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