Chapter 3

    Chapter three talks about strategies that can help teachers/leaders to adopt new technologies. Also, expend school leader's understanding about how innovations spread and how to support innvations. In this chapter, the authors discuss how to adopt innovation, started from understanding the process. They state that "It is important, of course, to support individuals moving forward as they are ready, and not to punish or threaten those who are unable to adopt the innovation, whatever it may be." This explains that even though people cannot adopt new technology within a certain period, we should not blame or punish them because they need more time to adopt it. Also, on page 45 Figure 3.1 explain how the process work for people to adopt innovation. A school leader must be able to recognize a well-designed, technology-rich lesson. Later in this chapter, the authors talk about steps that can change the culture, start with professional development continuum and professional learning community. It is unfortune that a great deal of professinal development which has been focused on technology has been ineffective. The authors use DuFour's statement (2004) suggest that to create a professional learning community, focus on learning rather than teaching, work collaboratively. Later in this chapter, the authors discuss about a technology-rich lesson, and provide us guidelines that if we see it and we will know it on page 54 and 55.
    I think in this chapter I learned a lot about how to promote teachers to adopt new technologies, I know that it is really hard for teacher to adopt new things once a while, especially for older teachers, most of them are not willing to change at all. It is important for school leader to think about how to help those teachers to adopt new technologies. Like Dr. Cullen said in class, there is one day, your principal bought a new stuff for you to play, and you have no idea what is that but been asked to create a lesson to teach the rest of the teachers in school. I think that certainly will freaks me out. And I agree that, when teachers are learning new technologies, the key point is learning, not teaching, how to create an effective learning lesson for teachers to adopt new technologies is the most important part. I believe if school leader can develop this kind of lesson for teachers such as workshops, I think it will benefit both teachers and students at the same time.