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Strategic Planning: Grow More
Strategic Planning: Grow More
Strategic planning
In 1971, Alan Kay, inventor of key technologies behind the first graphical computer user
interface, said, The best way to predict the future is to invent it.1 The sentiment arose, one can
infer from the context of the citation, from circumstances in which stakeholders involved in a
project did not share a common vision. In this specific instance, the conflict was between
researchers at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center and a team of researchers who, by 1979,
had a lab of computers networked together, sharing email and running a crude version of a
mouse- and windows-driven user interface. Yet all of these core technologies were developed
and brought to market with wild success by companies other than Xerox. In hindsight, it is easy
to look back and judge winners and losers based on how the marketplace responded to the
companies commercializing the technologies, but the core lesson is more subtle and more
powerful: Had all stakeholders embraced the same vision and strategic plan
for Xerox the company, as opposed to having been in conflict, perhaps Xerox
might have left behind a richer, more transformative technological legacy.
drive scalable innovation in efficient ways. Such partners would also understand the
core wants and needs of all key stakeholdersnot from reading about them but
from deep experience of working with them, at scale, across all facets of the global
education ecosystem.
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Vision. Leadership at all levels is needed, and governments must involve all key
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Policy. Schools do not have the resources to build ICT infrastructure without
appropriate ICT policy for allocating the proper resources. Policy should define
plans, goals, and milestones so that each school can address their own needs
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Research. Stakeholders must assess, quantify, and evaluate the impact of ICT
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latest PC technology, coupled with local content and quality software, can help
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process can give students, teachers, and parents the tools they need to help
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Curriculum. Classroom content must match the needs and priorities of the local
education community.
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Training. Educator development should not only help ensure that all teachers
have basic literacy with core ICT tools but also provide for ongoing training for
all educators so that education remains relevant to local communities and the
global marketplace.
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Communities. Educators must find and develop connections with each other
and with education partners so that they can share best practices, test ICT
solutions, and connect with others working on similar issues. Dynamic learning
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to deploying service and support that is both affordable and effective, while
transformation.
Case Studies
Results from pilot Envisioning Workshops with Education Impact
Kazakhstan
perspectives and modern trends on ICT in education into the ministrys vision
for e-learning.
Outcome
International perspectives and modern trends were integrated into the Ministry
Next steps
regional level.
Malaysia
Outcome
It also integrated PiL programs into the National ICT Strategic Plan, which
Cape Verde
Cape Verde wanted further development of its existing ICT strategy road map
bringing a global perspective to attendees and by telling the Cape Verde story
to a global audience.
Help ensure that future ICT rollouts are driven by use of ICT for core functions
of schooling.
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1. http://www.smalltalk.org/alankay.html
2. EDUCAUSE Review Magazine Top Ten IT Issues 2009. http://www.educause.edu/2009IssuesResources. (Additionally, IT
Funding has been at or near the top of the list of concerns for IT for each of the last 10 years.)
3. 2009 EduTracker survey of global education markets.
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