Introduction
Visionary Planner: Leaders engage others in establishing a vision, strategic plan and ongoing evaluation cycle for transforming learning with technology.
How to efficiently blend technology into education? How could we build up empathy with our audiences? Based on ISTE standard 2, establishing a shared vision or a strategic plan that can engage the participants is an excellent answer to those questions.
During the design process, educators should keep evaluating and transferring the content to prepare for the ultimate delivery of their teaching. ADDIE (Analyze, Design, Develop, Implement and Evaluation) model aligns with the standard perfectly due to being implemented by many professional instructional designers for technology-based teaching. Bates (2019) stated, “ADDIE has been almost a standard for professionally developed, high-quality distance education programs, whether print-based or online. It is also heavily used to corporate e-learning and training” (p. 125). With the ADDIE model, educators can design their strategic plan with a looping evaluating process, contributing to the shared vision directly. Only constantly looking back to the plan and implementing it time after time could enhance the plan’s structure and get to know the audience’s needs. In other words, evaluation benefits the education instructional designers to build a shared vision with their participants.
Educators should be able to seek the purpose and learning outcomes for the participants. A shared vision and a far-sighted educator can deliver a strategic plan to enhance the learning and teaching experience. Educators should use explicit information and proper technology to support and share their knowledge and expertise. In the 21st century, education is thriving incredibly fast than ever, and only a shared vision and engageable strategic plan can survive the updating requirements from the audience or even themselves.
ISTE standard 2 emphasizes that a shared vision can boost educators’ ability to measure, locate errors, and make corrections to their plans by constantly evaluating. We should correct the mistakes and stay alert, especially during educational instructional designing, because it is the key to achieving learning and teaching goals. In addition, sharing and communicating effectively with the stakeholders is critical. Educators can not deliver a qualified plan without support from the stakeholders.
Before my professors introduced me to ISTE standards, I subconsciously accomplished my works and projects through a shared vision. I was working in the administration department, and my job is to deliver quality professional development plans. However, I tried not to use a shared vision, and I worked alone with limited resources. Working alone without sharing and evaluating eventually caused my failure, and lack of evaluation was even more critical to my failed plans. Through my NYIT learning experiences, one of the most important things I have learnt is that we should keep sharing and developing our knowledge. As a future Instructional Technologist, it is even more crucial after learning all kinds of tools and technologies that could contribute to our learning and teaching.
The importance of becoming a person with a shared vision must be addressed again at last. In the age of digital teaching, sharing and reconstruction have become the mainstream of the information gathering style. In the field of education, ISTE standard 2 guarantees educators to develop themselves into qualified instructional designer
Reference
Bates, A.W. (2015). Teaching in a Digital Age. Retrieved from https://pressbooks.bccampus.ca/
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Figure 1, Retrieved from https://waterbearlearning.com/addie-model-instructional-design/
ISTE Organization. (2021). ISTE STANDARDS FOR EDUCATION LEADERS. Retrieved from https://www.iste.org/standards/for-education-leaders