Digital technologies implementation process

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Getting organised for change

As a leadership team, you:

• recognise this new learning as part of your school's strategic plans and goals
• reviewed your current professional development practices relevant to digital technologies
• reviewed your local curriculum to see the fit with the revised technology learning area and are preparing a plan on how to implement this (see alert #4 below).

Alert #4

Want more information about what a school’s local curriculum means and would like help to do this?

Refer to the Leading Local Curriculum guides and/or to the Local Curriculum Design Tool.

Unpacking the detail

As the leadership team / curriculum leaders, you:

• have read the revised technology learning area – and unpacked what might need to change in your school
• have had a look at the kinds of professional supports that are available and decided which ones look relevant for your school. 

For an overview visit digital technologies support. 

For helpful exemplars and resources see computational thinking for digital technologies and designing and developing digital outcomes. 

The Raranga Matihiko Kaiako Framework

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This framework is underpinned by the conscious-competence model. Brennan, K. & Resnick, M. (2012). Using artefact-based interviews to study the development of computational thinking in interactive media designs. Paper presented at annual American Educational Research Association meeting, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

Getting to know where your people are at and what other schools are doing

As the leadership team / curriculum leaders / change leaders, you have:

• connected with your teachers to determine their prior knowledge, capability, and confidence
• done a stocktake or audit of what digital technologies teaching you were already doing across your curriculum and found some pockets of learning that looked similar to the new curriculum content
• talked to: 
  • your students to find out what they know and can do already – some have experienced digital technologies learning and may well be self-motivated in this area (see alert #5 below)
  • other schools about their plans or what they are already doing and are encouraging your teachers to do the same
  • other local experts to gain more knowledge and ideas.

Find networks of expertise in digital technologies professional learning.

Find helpful case studies, videos, in teaching snapshots.

Alert #5

Not sure what this digital learning could refer to?

For example, students may have attended Code Club Aotearoa. Or they may have created their own digital solution to address a problem such as an app or a game to help a good cause.

Around the country, tamariki and young people are designing:

• online games to promote awareness around mental health, pollution, and climate change
• apps to help new students get familiar and settled at a new school
• drones that are helping to look after the environment
• robots that can lift recycling bins to help elderly citizens.

Get more ideas of digital solutions from the ‘Tech talks’ showcase. 

Polishing off your high-level plans

As the board of trustees and the leadership team, you:

• have included this new learning as part of your school’s strategic plans and goals.
• have decided how you will resource this change.
• estallished a plan to upskill your teachers using professional supports.
  • This plan is based around how your school teaches technology, and then what you need to do to support your teachers. 
  • The plan will also cover a current baseline – detailing what digital technologies learning is going on and where your students are at with this.
• share information with the community.

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