Survey: Staff development is top ed-tech challenge | Personnel | eSchoolNews.com

Here is another article talking about how staff training on IT issues is the number one challenge for chief technology officers.

Something I didn’t see mentioned much on the list is developing new pedagogy for using the new technology.  I don’t think that is the CTOs job.  Who’s job is it?

• Survey: Staff development is top ed-tech challenge | Personnel | eSchoolNews.com

  Training vs buying story

  tags: education, technology, Professional Development, survey

  • Making sure staff members have the professional development they need to ensure effective 21st-century teaching and learning is the top challenge facing school district chief technology officers (CTOs), according to a survey that queried more than 50 Illinois school district CTOs.
  • After a focus group and much deliberation, nine key education-technology challenges emerged:
  • 1. Providing professional development to school district staff—including formal, scheduled staff development on the use of new technologies, as well as spur-of-the-moment requests for individual help.
  • 2. Meeting the growing number of expectations, including handling communications systems, data collection and processing, technology implementations, and requests for new projects.
  • 3. Developing skills to improve instruction and learning.
  • 4. Moving resistors to use technology (that is, encouraging educators who are reluctant users of technology to do so).
  • 5. Vendors changing or not understanding the technical issues involved in an education technology project.
  • 6. Building IT staff to match organizational requirements: CTOs need to build technical staffs with funds that cannot compete with the open market.
  • 7. Surprising software installations, support, and licensing: Frequently, school administrators purchase hardware or software without consulting the technology department.
  • 8. Lack of a professional approach by vendors: CTOs report that vendors sometimes use unprofessional methods to “skirt the districts’ established procurement processes.”
  • 9. Compliance with state and federal laws and associated policies, including internet filtering, teaching about online safety, and other mandates.

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