Technology Leadership of Education Administers and Innovative Technologies in Education: A Case Study of Çorum City

Abstract

In this global world in which educationaltechnologies have developed at such a great pace, it is possible to say that administrators in the education sector are obliged with serious roles with regard to keeping up with the evolving technology and the management of education in this virtual environment. In the present study utilizing screening research method, technologic leadership attitudes of administrations in educational domain were investigated. The survey titled "Technology Leadership of Education Administers" developed by Banoğlu [24] was employed in this study. The research universe consisted of administers at the public schools located in Çorum City. The research sampling was composed of 161 school administers who participated in the "Technology Leadership of Education Administers" survey on a volunteer basis. The acquired data was analyzed through the SSPS 22 package software with descriptive and comparative statistical methods. The analysis results were presented in the tables in the findings section.

Investigation of School Administrators’ Technological Leadership in Terms of Gender

“…According to the studies in the literature on whether the technological leadership differs in terms of gender according to school administrators are (Aktaş, 2016;Banoğlu, 2011;Brunson, 2015;Bülbül & Çuhadar, 2012;Cantürk, 2016;Curnyn, 2013;Depew, 2015;Doğan, 2018;Duncan, 2011;Görgülü, 2013;Gürkan, 2017;Güven, 2015;Hayytov, 2013;Kör, 2016;Şişman-Eren, 2010;Ulukaya, 2015;Uçkan, 2010;Uysal-Balaban, 2012;Yorulmaz, 2016). In these studies, it was concluded that the technology leadership competencies of school administrators don't differ in terms of their gender (Alkdrem, 2014;Beyaz, 2014;Brunson, 2015;Bülbül & Çuhadar, 2012;Can, 2008;Cantürk & Aksu, 2017;Çakır & Aktay, 2018;Görgülü, 2013;Gürkan, 2017;Güven, 2015;Hayytov, 2013;Ölçek, 2014;Şişman-Eren, 2010;Uçkan, 2010;Ulukaya, 2015;Uysal-Balaban, 2012).…”

“…When the researches on the technological leadership of school administrators are examined, the participants; from school administrators (Aktaş, 2016;Alkrdem, 2014;Banoğlu, 2011;Brunson, 2015;Bülbül & Çuhadar, 2012;Curyn, 2013;Aktay & Çakır, 2018;Çalık, Demirsoy, 2016;Depew, 2015;Doğan, 2018;Duncan, 2011;Şişman-Eren, 2010;Gültekin, 2013;Gürkan, 2017, Güven, 2015Hayytov, 2013;Kör, Erbay, & Engin, 2016;Uçkan, 2010;Ulukaya, 2015;Yorulmaz-Can, 2016), from teachers ( Baş, 2012;Durnalı, 2018;Engür, 2014;Ertuğrul, 2014;Gençay, 2018;Gerçek, 2016;Görgülü, 2013;Gürkan-Beyaz, 2014;Karabağ-Köse, Yurdakul, & Onuk, 2017;Irmak, 2015;Ölçek , 2014;Öztaş, 2013;Samancıoğlu et al, 2015;Sincar, 2009), it is also seen that it consists of both teachers and administrators (Balaban, 2012;Cantürk, 2016).…”

Bildung im digitalen Wandel

“…Dieser Aspekt wird von mehreren Studien sowohl bezogen auf die Leitungsebene als auch auf die Ebene der Lehrkräfte angeführt. 11 Wissen und Erfahrungen könnten in einem Netzwerk bestmöglich ausgetauscht werden (Agélii Genlott et al, 2019;Kör, Erbay & Engin, 2016). Weitere Punkte, die unter den Aspekt des Austausches und der Zusammenarbeit subsumiert werden können, sind Arbeitsteilung und eine Kultur des Teilens, die durch den Einsatz digitaler Medien befördert werden (Eickelmann & Gerick, 2017;Razak et al, 2018;Vermeulen, Kreijns, van Buuren & van Acker, 2017).…”

“…(Sheninger, 2019, Vorwort).Schulleiterinnen und Schulleiter sind relevante Akteure, um Schule im Kontext des digitalen Wandels zu transformieren. Neben allgemeinen Führungskompetenzen(Cole & Sauers, 2018;Gilmore & Deos, 2020) benötigen sie ebenfalls technologische Kompetenzen(Claro, Nussbaum, López & Contardo, 2017; Håkansson Lindqvist & Petersson, 2019;Kör et al, 2016;Öznacar & Dericioglu, 2017;Schwanenberg et al, 2018). In der aktuellen Forschung wird in diesem Zusammenhang von technology oder digital leadership 23 gesprochen.…”

“…Burow, 2018;Blau & Shamir-Inbal, 2017;Cole & Sauers, 2018;Lumagbas et al, 2019;Pais et al, 2016;Razak et al, 2018; Sheninger, 2019. 11 Agélii Genlott et al, 2019Dong et al, 2020;Eickelmann & Gerick, 2017; Eickelmann et al, 2019a; Ilomäki & Lakkala, 2018;Kör, 2019;Razak et al, 2018; Vermeulen et al, 2017. …”