Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Adam Jernigan
modern age regarded as a time in which information has become a commodity that is quickly
and widely disseminated and easily available especially through the use of computer
technology” (Merriam-Webster, 2019). The Digital Age has brought about a digital culture
with advances in the field of education and changes in the processing of information in the
classroom. The digital age administrator is one that will promote positive educational
Horry County Education Center has an administrative structure that employs the use of
employees from the school but also that of certain district office personnel to provide
technological support to teachers, and by extension students. This structure will be evaluated
and described based on the application of the following indicators for NETS-A Standard 2:
• Educational administrators model and promote the frequent and effective use of
technology and learning resources to meet the individual, diverse needs of all learners.
• Educational administrators ensure effective practice in the study of technology and its
collaboration.
Indicators
continuous improvement of digital-age learning. Horry County Education Center and their
administrative team have worked diligently to make changes to their instructional model.
Upon entry into the educational body, Mr. McCullough, the principal, focused on making
changes to the instructional model that would thrust Horry County Education Center into the
digital age of education. Moving from a more traditional instructional method to employing a
more digital instructional method with Edgenuity. The common theme among the
administrative team is that the concept is working and still growing towards perfection,
One of the best places I have seen for administrators to model professional practices,
per indicator two, is in faculty meetings. Mr. McCullough and his administrative team
facilitate the use of technology and the data associated with the operations of the educational
body during faculty meetings that model the use of technology in the classroom and how
similar data can be used to efficiently facilitate learning. These practices range from
presentation technology implementation down to the incorporation of digital timers for pacing
the staff like a classroom. The incorporation of data is also important while we discuss the
modeling of technology, using technology requires the use of the data that is produces to help
promote a digital culture in the educational body. One method employed by the
administrative team to achieve this indicator has been to provide more opportunity to develop
a sense of ownership towards education. One of the biggest changes at Horry County
Education Center in recent years has been the incorporation of brand-new Dell Chromebooks
to facilitate the use of Edgenuity. The coupling of the two has helped to create a program to
which students become the focus of the educational system and promote students taking
Ronald Anderson and Sara Dexter stated, “Having a technology committee generally is
distributing the leadership function across different administrative and instructional staff”
(Anderson, R. E., & Dexter, S., 2005). The focus of indicator four is on the administration’s
infusion of technology and practice into the educational environment. The administrative
team of Horry County Education Center achieves this by employing the use of district office
personnel such as their Digital Integration Specialists to act as the technology committee for
the educational body. These personnel specialize in the incorporation of technology in the
classroom and help to bring best practice into the classroom to best meet the need of our
digital culture. Digital Integration Specialists are brought in to provide training for educators
and to provide research-based resources that can best influence the education of its students.
The administrative team sets up these meetings and coordinates with the district office to
development opportunities both locally and abroad. This district office team also includes
participation in certain blogs, wikis, and hangouts that include persons from around the world.
This is also true of the administrative team as Mr. McCullough was interviewed it became
Summary
“The technology leader in a school is the person who mobilizes all school components by
using technological devices” (Banoglu, K., (2011). This statement could not be truer than in the
case of Horry County Education Center. The technology leader for this educational body can be
viewed from multiple perspectives as we view the roles of the Digital Integration Specialists and
the different members of the administrative team, but the conclusion falls from the culmination
of these resources based on the school administrator, Mr. McCullough’s, leadership towards the
REFERENCES
Anderson, R. E., & Dexter, S. (2005). School technology leadership: An empirical investigation
webster.com/dictionary/Information Age