Digital leadership focuses on developing 21st century skills like creativity, collaboration, and problem-solving through technology integration. Teacher and student surveys found that Google Classroom, Edmodo, and QR codes were popular tools to engage students. Transitioning to 1:1 devices requires shifting perceptions, supporting teachers, and using technology for interactive learning both in and out of class. Blended learning combins digital tools, BYOD, and interactive lessons to prepare students. True digital leadership requires developing a collaborative culture where all stakeholders contribute to transformation.

1. Digital Leadership
CHANGING PARADIGMS FOR CHANGING TIMES
ANTWUAN STINSON
ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL

2. Chapter 9
Increasing Student Engagement and
Enhancing Learning

3. Book Sections
School should reflect real life
A pedagogical framework for digital tools
21st Century learning at New Milford High School
A Global Context
A focus on Essential Skill sets
The move to 1:1
BYOD
Blended Learning
Digital Citizenship
Summary

4. A Pedagogical Framework for Digital
Tools
The overarching objective is to determine how are students using technology to apply learning
and demonstrate conceptual mastery?
For the presentation we chose to use a framework based on the three concepts:
◦ Monological teaching
◦ Dialogical Teaching
◦ Polyphonic Teaching
The next slide describes each concept listed in the book pgs 135-139.

5. Monological Teaching is based on Wittgenstein’s idea that the teacher is the expert and
knowledge is received from the teacher. The teacher defines clear learning objectives relevant
to the subject matter.

6. Dialogical Teaching occurs when student learning is acquired through case assignments and simulations
demonstrating knowledge gained from experience. Gaining experience is the key element constructing
problem-solving ability.

7. Polyphonic teaching is based on K.E. Logstrup’s where knowledge is created through equal exchange of
many perceptions. Learning occurs through teacher and student joint interaction to produce common
knowledge within the field.

8. What should 21st century learning look
like?
Technology that allows authentic learning taking place in various places.
We must move away from an industrial model of instruction
Using web technologies that encourage creativity, collaboration, problem-solving and
communication skills

9. Traditional Teaching
Traditional teaching is almost teacher-centered which conflicts with the constructivist
approaches to teaching and learning (Brooks, 2002). New trends in teaching and learning seek to
enhance student-centered instruction; in which students take responsibilities of their learning in
environments that encourage participation, critical thinking, problem solving, variety of
activities, group work and meaningful interactions instead of rote memorization.
Ogden, Pyzdrowski & Shambaugh (2014:49) state that the flipped classroom approach to
teaching is "a pedagogical design that replaces what typically takes place during a face-to-face
lecture (passive transfer of knowledge) with engaging activities and assigns the lecture as
homework for students to complete autonomously outside of class".

11. Social Media
Instagram - an online mobile photo-sharing, video-sharing, and social networking service that enables
its users to take pictures and videos, and share them either publicly or privately on the app, as well as
through a variety of other social networking platforms, such as Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, and Flickr.
Twitter - an online news and social networking service where users post and read short 140-character
messages called "tweets".
Google Classroom - a blended learning platform for schools that aims to simplify creating, distributing
and grading assignments in a paperless way.
Class Dojo - a behavior management tool for the classroom. Each student has a profile – complete with
their own avatar – to which teachers can assign positive and negative points (or 'dojos') throughout the
lesson.
Edmodo - an educational website that takes the ideas of a social network and refines them and makes
it appropriate for a classroom.
Google Drive (videos, forms) - a file storage and synchronization service created by Google. It allows
users to store files in the cloud, synchronize files across devices, and share files.
Blogspot - a blog-publishing service that allows multi-user blogs with time-stamped entries.

12. Focus on Essential Skill Sets
“The only way schools can place learners into positions to seize opportunities now and in the
future is to authentically engage them in learning experiences that are relevant, meaningful”
(pg. 145), and allow them to use digital tools.
These skills are aligned with International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) National
Educational Technology Standards (NETS)
◦ Creativity
◦ Collaboration
◦ Communication
◦ Critical Thinking

13. Focus on Essential Skill Sets (cont.)
Entrepreneurism – enhanced through the use of digital tools to solve problems and create
artifacts of learning (i.e., Poll Everywhere, QR codes, Blogs, website design).

14. Summary of Focus on Essential Skill Sets
“Use of web-based resources, skills, and technology allows students to use real-world tools to
solve real-world problems” (p. 147). Digital leadership places strategic focus on developing a
culture of teaching and learning that is not only student-centered but empowers learners to
construct their own meanings and understandings of concepts by nontraditional means.
Below are a few things you will rotate though
1. A survey instrument we used to determine the needs of our teachers and students.
2. How to make a QR code and assign it to a site for easy access.

15. We will break into groups
Everyone count off in groups: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
1’s will start at Station A
2’s will start at Station B
3’s will start at Station C
4’s will start at Station D
5’s will start at Station E

16. What Are Students
Using?

17. 29% of smartphone owners use general-purpose
messaging apps such as WhatsApp or Kik.
24% use messaging apps that automatically delete sent
messages, such as Snapchat or Wickr.
Facebook has the largest percentage of older adult users
between the ages of 35 and 64, more than any other
social media platform.
Instagram and Pinterest are tied with the largest number
of users in the 25-44 age category
Tumblr has the largest percentage of users for those
between the ages of 16 and 24

18. How are we using emerging technology?

19. Statista, 2016

21. Teacher Responses
(N=110)
SURVEY OF TEACHERS AT 3 SCHOOLS

22. Technology Survey

24. Results of “what tech tool do you need
assistance with to help with classroom
instruction?”
Google docs and Google forms
I need help making SmartBoard games.
Google Classroom
Podcasting
Safari montage
Implementing different application software into the lessons.
All of the devices and programs have potential. I just prefer to learn one or two new ones at
a time instead of focusing on so many. I'd start with Safari Montage to see if I liked using it
in my classroom.

25. Survey Results and Discussion
We are teaching in ways that do not reach students.
The majority of students will not conform to traditional learning methods but will act out
Teachers may be out of touch with how students learn
Classroom instruction is boring because students cannot interact with anything other than their
peers

26. Student Responses
(N=320)
SURVEY OF STUDENTS 3 SCHOOLS

27. Student
Responses

30. Google Classroom and Edmodo
Our students want to be creative, collaborate, utilize technology for learning, connect with their
peers in other countries, and solve real world problems.
Digital leadership is a mindset and a call to transform a school’s culture into one that unleashes
the creativity of students so they can create artifacts of learning that demonstrates conceptual
mastery.
This accomplished by allowing students to use real-world tools to apply what they have learned
and construct new knowledge.

31. BYOD: How do we challenge our
students through Facebook, Instagram,
School Webpage and Twitter
Change the way students view their devices by changing the language used to refer to them
Attach a specific learning outcome to devices when using them
Develop appropriate support structures that align with current Acceptable Use Policies
Provide professional development and resources to teachers so they can be successful in
implementing mobile learning devices
Promote use of student-owned devices for learning during non-instructional time (i.e., during
lunch to conduct research for projects, complete homework assignments, and organize notes
and belongings).

32. Making a QR code and linking to a web
site
1. Access the website that you like: http://www.lee.k12.al.us/
2. Access http://www.qrstuff.com/
3. Copy paste link into site

33. Download the QR
code by clicking
“Download QR
Code””

34. Inserting QR code
1. Retrieve QR code from download folder (or wherever
your default setting for downloads is)
2. Design your flyer, class assignment, or publication
with the QR code for easy access
3. Make public

35. Learning Activity
Access the link www.bit.ly/Feb13group to view photos
for the activity
◦ Use the QR code reader app. Choose web browser if you do
not have the Google drive app
Download the QR Code reader from app store or play
store (android)

36. Creating a project
using Animoto
https://animoto.com/ (Creating a
slideshow)
Make a QR code from the qr code
generator website
http://www.qrstuff.com/ to share
your slideshow

37. BYOD
Make a video introducing yourself using Voicethread. Include:
◦ Name
◦ Position
◦ Hobbies

38. Move to 1:1
Transition from banned devices to classroom use (pp. 147-149)
◦ Kahoot it! Students interact with others during this free game-based learning platform that makes it fun
to learn – any subject
◦ Google form – Use to vote for Grade level representatives using their cell phones and chromebooks
◦ https://docs.google.com/a/lee.k12.al.us/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdXcxBRHOUDiLcBvLbOQFszdJaAZSkZLFYQ
g_KAVUkJGexZ3A/viewform

39. Blended Learning
Interactive technology
BYOD
Digital Tools (i.e., Kahoot, Google apps, Compass Learning, Instagram, webpages, Google
Classroom, Edmodo, Youtube, Teachertube)

40. New form of leadership
Leadership no longer represents a special gift or power held by a select few. Instead, it is a
relationship between committed people. It becomes an opportunity for all of us at any level –
Dr. Darrell Kirch, MD, President and CEO of the AAMC quoted in “The Multiplier Effect” by Liz
Wiseman
We need Multiplier leadership across an entire professional community. We must prepare for a
future in which we do more with less creating a transformation from within by harnessing the
intelligence, creativity, and commitment of the stakeholders in our schools (Wiseman et al,
2013). To achieve this common goal requires a shift in the mindset and behavior to have a
widespread impact in the way we lead our teachers expecting students to create, collaborate,
communicate, think critically, and solve problems in this digital age.

41. References
http://www.sociedadytecnologia.org/pages/view/178170/a-pedagogical-framework-for-digital-
tools
Ring Their Bells: A New Way to Deliver Bell Work https://www.edutopia.org/blog/new-way-
deliver-bell-work-lori-desautels?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=cpc
http://www.pewinternet.org/2016/11/11/social-media-update-2016/
https://www.statista.com/statistics/274829/age-distribution-of-active-social-media-users-
worldwide-by-platform/