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Step by Step Guide to Creating a Digital Strategy

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  Step by Step Guide to Creating a Digital Strategy The Specifics Once we were clear on our vision and had some objectives to get us there. It was now time to actually begin to formulate our digital strategy. To do so, we looked at each objective individually and then considered how they would relate to the key areas that every digital strategy should address: Digital Literacy and Capacity, Digital Technology Infrastructure,    Digital Leadership Goal 1: Provide technology accessibility for all learners With this goal, the focus isn’t only about giving students access to various technology. It is also about teaching them how to use technology appropriately for lifelong learning, and ensuring that learning is accessible to everyone, including those in special education.      The approach of incorporating accessibility features is known as universal design. Three main principles that underpin the application of universal design for learning (UDL): 1. providin...
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FORMULATING A DIGITAL STRATEGY

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FORMULATING A DIGITAL STRATEGY  When setting out to formulate our digital strategy, we returned to our vision and formulated three general objectives that we thought would help us to achieve this vision:       Goal 1: Provide technology accessibility for all learners       Goal 2: Facilitate professional development (PD) workshops and the creation of professional learning communities to assist with the effective and suitable integration and application of student-centred digital technologies.       Goal 3: Increase student engagement by encouraging educators to apply pedagogy that facilitates the 4Cs of intrinsic motivation: choice, challenge, collaboration and control We then considered the numerous ways that these general objectives may be realised as many of these would become the impetus for our digital strategy. We came up with the following: Students       Use digit...
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Why a Digital Strategy?

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Imagine for a moment that your school needs to integrate technology, and you have been chosen to lead the planning and implementation of this integration. You must now decide whether your school needs a technology plan or a digital strategy . The challenge is these terms are used interchangeably all over the internet, and it is challenging to extricate one concept from the other because they appear to be the same thing. Nevertheless, despite how close they may appear, there is a distinct difference between a technology plan and a digital strategy. The emphasis of a technology plan is the technology and the organisation’s overall goals. As a consequence, the focus of a technology plan can encompass any and all areas. These can include productivity, improved customer service or employee morale (Truong, 2021). If this is placed in an education context, it means that a technology plan can focus on any area of importance to a school including, but not limited to, the curriculum, communicat...
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