Administrator's new responsibilities must include supporting the efforts of their staff to adopt and adapt new technologies in order to achieve new levels of productivity and achievement. In effect, managers must provide the vision of change that includes empowering teachers and learners in new ways and then must learn how to effectively manage these empowered teachers and learners. Administration - much broader and more fluid group of players and functions to manage. Administrative uses of technology allow teachers to spend less time on cumbersome paperwork and more time on educational content and working with students. In many ways, the schools of brick and tradition we have built or inherited are threatened.
Teachers collaborate more.
Over time, they also reported that they interact differently with their students - more as guides or mentors and less like lecturers. In fact, their personal efforts to make technology an integral part of their classrooms caused them to rethink their most basic beliefs about education and opened them to the possibilities of redefining how they went about providing opportunities for students to learn. Students take part in advanced placement courses, archaeology programs originating from the bottom of the sea, chemistry experiments, college courses and enrichment programs. Teachers network with each other to share instructional practices. Teachers and students access information more frequently and cost effectively Students take more responsibility for their own learning, work at their own pace and correct many of their own errors.