The ISTE Standards for Administrators emphasizes administrators must promote all aspects of technology. They must promote and inspire stakeholders to utilize the technology that is available to them while also promoting the safety and proper use. Technology can be a territory that not everyone wants to enter and it is the administrators who must display the importance by inspiring those around them to not be afraid to try new things, and to take risks that may fail.
I believe that technology can also be misused if it is not taught properly and if professional development is not lifelong that it can easily turn into a negative learning tool. Not only can certain sites be misused but also the tool of technology if misused can turn into a search engine. Instead of students using technology to create projects such as videos or blogs if it is misused they will just use the technology in front of them to search questions they do not know the answer to.
While administrators must use technology to collect data on student achievement, it is extremely important for those administrators to teach and encourage teachers and staff to do the same. Children in this day and age are number orientated, they need to see with numbers that they are improving or declining which is why data collection is even more important. While technology is changing every day one person cannot stay one hundred percent up to date, therefore, administrators must be willing to collaborate with all stakeholders to maximize student learning with the use of technology. If administrators and teachers collaborate together on data collection I believe that they will find that the amount of data collected will grow substantially.
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