Starting points

Shared Vision
Proactive leadership in developing a shared vision
for educational technology among all education stakeholders, including teachers and support staff, school and district administrators, teacher educators, students, parents, and the community

This has to be a starting point for addressing technological change in a school. The idea of shared vision is important when creating the culture of the school. The proactive leadership can be available. We currently have over 20 different school leaders in California proactively looking for ideas and being inspired to bring these ideas to their schools. Now how do they bring these ideas to their schools and communities? How are they going to inspire a variety of technologically savvy or otherwise teachers and a community that may or may not understand the possibility of change in education? How do you inspire a community to a vision?

4. Promote and Model Digital Citizenship and Responsibility
Teachers understand local and global societal issues and responsibilities in an evolving digital culture and exhibit legal and ethical behavior in their professional practices.
a. Advocate, model, and teach safe, legal, and ethical use of digital information and technology, including respect for copyright, intellectual property, and the appropriate documentation of sources
c. Promote and model digital etiquette and responsible social interactions related to the use of technology and information
d. Develop and model cultural understanding and global awareness by engaging with colleagues and students of other cultures using digital age communication and collaboration tools

One of the ideas that is growing in the elementary schools is the idea of throughlines. A basic tenant of throughlines that we are stressing is that every inch of this universe belongs to God. Since this is the case the question with technology does not only become what we can do with it, but also how can we honour God with it? This section cannot be ignored in our dealings with technology. How can we use technology in the throughlines of justice seeking, God worshipping or order discovering? What does it mean to use technology in a way to further God's kingdom - how does technology helps us answer the question how now shall we live?

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