Efficacious Technology Management: A Guide for School Leaders

by Gary Ackerman

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This text supports, enables, and facilitates students as they are become full participants in the computer and network-rich communication landscape of society. Differences between how IT is provided and managed in other organizations compared to educational organizations can pose challenges for school leaders and the IT professional they hire from other industries.

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Publisher
Greenfield Community College
Subjects
Workforce, Information Technology
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, as LibreTexts states it. Non-commercial use only.
Who can read
Tweens profiles and older, judged from its title and subjects

Contents

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  1. Front Matter
  2. TitlePage
  3. InfoPage
  4. Table of Contents
  5. About the Author
  6. Licensing
  7. 1: Introduction
  8. 1.0: Introduction
  9. 1.1: Efficacious IT Management
  10. 1.2: The Barriers to Efficacy
  11. 1.3: Becoming Efficacious
  12. 1.4: My Assumptions About Users of School IT
  13. 1.5: The Role of Theory
  14. 1.6: The Organization of My Solution
  15. 2: Information Technology, Society, and Schools
  16. 2.0: Chapter Introduction
  17. 2.1: Information Technology and Society
  18. 2.2: The Non-Neutrality of Technology
  19. 2.3: Schools for Networked Societies
  20. 2.4: Implications for IT Management
  21. 2.5: Conclusion
  22. 3: Technology-Rich Teaching and Learning
  23. 3.0: Introduction
  24. 3.1: Logistic Goal
  25. 3.2: Deconstructing Technology-Rich Teaching
  26. 3.3: Supporting Educators
  27. 3.4: Autonomy and its Limits in Professional Learning
  28. 4: Access to Sufficient Computing Devices
  29. 4.0: Introduction
  30. 4.1: Logistic Goals
  31. 4.2: Capacity of Devices
  32. 4.3: Availability of Devices
  33. 4.4: Capacity of Teachers
  34. 4.5: Negotiating Capacity
  35. 5: IT Networks
  36. 5.0: Introduction
  37. 5.1: Logistic Goal
  38. 5.2: Networking Starts Here
  39. 5.3: Networking Concepts and Processes
  40. 5.4: Wireless Networks
  41. 5.5: Network Management
  42. 6: Web Services
  43. 6.0: Introduction
  44. 6.1: Logistic Goal
  45. 6.2: Context for the Goal- The Evolving World Wide Web
  46. 6.3: Managing Accounts
  47. 6.4: Internal Clients- Information and Business
  48. 6.5: External Audiences for Interaction
  49. 7: Technology Support Systems
  50. 7.0: Introduction
  51. 7.1: Logistic Goal
  52. 7.2: Effective IT Systems
  53. 7.3: Communication and Technology Support
  54. 7.4: Strategies to Increase Efficiency
  55. 7.5: Customer Service Skills
  56. 8: Discourse, Design, Data
  57. 8.0: Introduction
  58. 8.1: Data versus Evidence
  59. 8.2: Educational Design Research as a Source of Data
  60. 9: Understanding Change
  61. 9.0: Introduction
  62. 9.1: Organizational Frames
  63. 9.2: Innovations
  64. 9.3: Conclusion
  65. Back Matter
  66. Index
  67. Index
  68. Glossary
  69. Detailed Licensing