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Introduction
Today, technology plays a major role in leadership and most importantly in the education sector. The work place has increasingly been dominated by a wave of technological advancements. As learning corporate leaders emphasize on cutting cost and improving efficiency, e-learning and other web-based tools have drastically replaced space that was formerly under education.
According to Chris, leadership positions in the education sector have undergone through a series of changes (Toy, 2013). Today, every education leadership position must include technology in its operations. In this article, educational leadership in schools needs to effectively integrate technology in the learning environments.
Leadership in education sectors should effectively integrate technology in the learning activities. This should not only be viewed as changing the way education is managed but changing the mentality and mindset we have about the way we think about teaching and learning. Therefore, leadership in schools (high schools, colleges and universities) ought to integrate technology well to reap its benefits of increased efficiency.
Lack of utilizing technology could result to good decisions that only satisfy today’s needs and failure by the school leadership to integrate technology in their curriculum, could lead to inferior system or strategy. As a result of this, institutions could face strong competition threats that come from other institutions that have successfully enrolled technology in their teaching and learning activities.
Technology implementation strategies are hard to implement, but it’s possible. Managing strategies is even more complex as one has to be smart and sharp. One lesson that everyone should learn, whether at universities or learning companies, is to have a strong and realistic vision about where the world is headed in terms of technological advancement.
Reference
Toy, C. (2008, November). Leadership and effectively integrating educational technology: Ten Lessons for Principals and Other Educational Leaders. Retrieved from http://www.nassp.org/Content.aspx?topic=58730
