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SupportWhere can teachers turn if they want more information about effectiveapplications? Figure 8.2 surveys the sources of information that teachersuse. It shows that teachers tend to turn to colleagues at school for help.They supplement this by contacting external sources, especially educationalpublishers, Kennisnet, and other partner schools.Source of informationTeachers at own school 42Educational publishers30Kennisnet23Partnership with other school220 20 40 60 80 100% of teachersFigure 8.2: Teachers’ top four sources of information on computer use in the past year(TNS NIPO, 2010)8.2 LeadershipSchool managers are second only to teachers in influencing how teachingis organized and how well pupils perform in school (Barber, 2010). Weconsider what school managers do to achieve their school’s ICT objectivesby looking at two indicators:1. The presence of an ICT policy plan or other document setting out theirpedagogical vision of ICT2. How teachers categorize the school leadership68
8 - Collaboration and leadershipPolicy planSome eight out of ten schools have an ICT policy plan. About half of theseschools are actually implementing this plan, and a third are not (Figure8.3). This breakdown is by and large the same as in previous years.ICT policy plan% of schoolsNo policy planPolicy plan is not implementedPolicy plan is implemented100801122 22603734 3340205244 450PRIMSECVETFigure 8.3: Presence and implementation of ICT policy plan (TNS NIPO, 2010b)Analyses of policy plans reveal that many of them have not been updatedand that they frequently do not define the relationship between theschool’s pedagogical vision and ICT. Schools evidently find it difficult todefine that relationship (Uerz, 2011).69
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