EDC 667 Leadership and Educational Technology
This course focuses on concepts and strategies necessary to step into a leadership role in the integration and application of technology and learning. Topics include strategic planning, leadership styles, institution change process, and policy issues in educational technology. Students create and share a vision of educational technology for their workplace, generate a technology plan that supports that vision, and write a proposal seeking funding for all or part of that plan.

Required Books: Feel free to use your cadre Amazon account!

Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency by Tom DeMarco. Broadway (April 9, 2002) ISBN: 0767907698

Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, 2nd Edition by Steve Krug. New Riders Press; 2nd edition (August 28, 2005). ISBN: 0321344758

Reality Check: The Irreverent Guide to Outsmarting, Outmanaging, and Outmarketing Your Competition by Guy Kawasaki. Portfolio (Oct 30, 2008). ISBN: 1591842239 - READ BEFORE TERM

Ordinary Resurrections: Children in the Years of Hope by Jonathan Kozol. Harper Perennial (February 20, 2001) ISBN: 0060956453. Read LAST.

Select One of the Following...

In Schools We Trust: Creating Communities of Learning in an Era of Testing and Standardization by Deborah Meier. Beacon Press (August 1, 2003) ISBN: 0807031518. K-12

Leadership Ensemble: Lessons in Collaborative Management from the World's Only Conductorless Orchestra by Harvey Seifter and Peter Economy. Times Books/Holt Paperbacks, 2001. ISBN: 0805071865. Non-K-12

Optional books:

Not With Our Kids You Don't! Ten Strategies to Save Our Schools by Juanita Doyon. Heinemann (January 15, 2003) ISBN-10: 0325004862.

Ourselves: Why We Are Who We Are by Frank Smith.

Making Learning Whole: How Seven Principles of Teaching Can Transform Education by David N. Perkins Jossey-Bass (Dec 22, 2008) ISBN: 0470384522