Session 7 Nebula

Develop ideas of where you could incorporate the use of Scenario Planning in your organization.

To establish an innovative learning organization of high schools in Mainland China, it requires more support from government, school leadership, teacher, students and parents. Based on the analysis of change, professional development and assessment of my target organization—my university, many places need to improve actually. So to consider the scenario planning to my university, I would like to develop my process in following steps:

Resource 18 Leveraging Digital Storytelling and Social Media to Build Your Organization & Network

Leveraging Digital Storytelling and Social Media to Build Your Organization & Network




Digital storytelling and social media have taken the communications world by storm. This video presented by Charlotte Hill shows the importance of storytelling and social media to key organizational decision makers, in order to begin building a story database and social media presence for your organization and create a strategic communications timeline around an upcoming moment of opportunism.

Resource 17 Storytelling: Transforming 21st Century Organizations

Storytelling: Transforming 21st Century Organizations

Narrative and storytelling play an enormous role in our modern economy and in public and private sector organizations.

Michael Shadow gives a whole introduction of how narrative works in public agencies and how managers/leaders can create a compelling narrative. Participants will learn the qualities of a good narrative, the process for discovering their own story and how to script a story that unites ideas with emotions.

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Session 6 Nebula

Storytelling--- volunteer as an English teacher for 3 months

I had been a volunteer as an English teacher in a school for children of migrant workers for 3 months and was responsible for teaching English class for grade 5 and 6. I found that the children in this school were all very poor at English; in fact some children even could not recognize alphabet A, B, C… though they had started learning English from grade 3. With high enthusiasm but lacking of professional English teacher and learning resources limits their chance to enhance English. So I decided to take some English books every time, which collected from my friends and my relatives, and gave these children as a prize to who participated class most actively.

I was so deeply touched by their learning attitude towards English because they were so curious about the this new language that I could always find some question slips nipped in their homework. Unfortunately, no computers, no iphones or ipads promoted their learning, but the knowledge was only from their English books and some extracurricular books brought by me. When I came back to my university, I felt so shamed about the absent rate in my English class. My classmates had the most advanced language learning facilities and experienced teachers, but some of them were sick of learning so much or even absent to attend the class.

I think school organization should more focus on the significance of learning itself but not only on the academic performance. The children in most big cities do not acknowledge that their opportunities are so precious due to Chinese biggest population among the world. I also hope more university students will be encouraged to join in the voluntary association as a teacher to bring more learning resources and new ideas to the children in rural areas.

Resource 12: Is Yours a Learning Organization?

Is Yours a Learning Organization? - Harvard Business Review

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Leaders may think that getting their organizations to learn is only a matter of articulating a clear vision, giving employees the right incentives, and providing lots of training. This assumption is not merely flawed—it’s risky in the face of intensifying competition, advances in technology, and shifts in customer preferences.

Here is an interview about "the importance of learning in organization".

Resource 11 What is a learning organization?

A useful paper written by Moya K. Mason introduced deeply about the learning organization, which also based on Peter Senge's "The Fifth Discipline". He also talked about the steps needed to create a culture that supports a learning organization and a timeline to initiate the types of changes necessary to achieve the principles of a learning organization.

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Session 5 Nebula

Review group workplace case: compare similarities and differences and develop a table evidencing this.

Learning Organization Scores Summary:

From the table one, we can see the case evaluation from LO survey gives an overall assessment to the organization in three parts: learning environment, learning process and leadership. The outcome shows a good performance of ZOU (Zhejiang Ocean University) but a low mark in NOG (New Oriental Technology & Education Group). And ZTS (Zhejiang Television Station) and GM (Guangdong Museum) got third and second place in this comparison.

Resource 4 Organization assessment model---IMO

The Integrated Organisation Model (IOM) is a model that can be applied to describe, to analyse and to diagnose organisations. The IOM is an integrated (or integral) model to emphasise the interrelationships of the different elements of an organisation: although the elements can to a certain extent be treated separately, they are all connected to each other and - ideally - in balance.

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Resource 3 Teacher Professional Development using SAS

School and district administrators are under increasing pressure to take a holistic view of their organizations. In order to make a difference in education, educators and administrators need to gain useful knowledge and draw insightful conclusions by letting

data drive decision practices.

The video talked by Dr. Julie Morrow, Principal for Mooresville Intermediate School, on helping staff with data use and systems through professional development.

At http://www.sas.com/dddm, you can learn how to make data-driven decisions and review resources on data management.

Session 4 Nebula

What PD happens in your workplace? What strategies does your organization have in place to encourage development, change and innovation?

Professional development is the skills and knowledge a person gains during personal development and job growth. Fullan (1991) cited PD as “the sum total of formal and informal learning experience throughout one’s career”.

In a school organization, PD often happens in teaching training in an innovative environment during the technology usage. New teachers

Session 3 Nebula

Requirement: Develop and articulate ideas for describing leading change in an organization of your choice.

Leading change of ICT integration to school:

Besides the technical provision of access to computer, network and Internet, the challenge to school leadership when introduce ICT into organizational change also needs to involve the training of professional staff, the accumulation of ICT-based curriculum resources and the coordination among students, teachers and leaders.

Session 2 Nebula

Requirement: Identify a model of change to help explain change within an organization you have experienced.

21^st Century Learner

The 21^st century learning skills:

Ø Inventive Thinking

i. Critical thinking: thinking and sound reasoning, students can adopt a cognitive process of analysis in problem solving

ii. Creativity: technical tools with creative ideas bring out innovative pedagogy.

Session 1 Nebula

Requirement: How best would you describe how your organizational learnt?

I am Shen Ying (Nebula), and this is my second semester of master course of ITE in HKU. I completed my bachelor degree in Mainland China, which is much more different with Hong Kong university. Taking into consideration the five principles that are crucial for schoolsto become learning organizations given by Senge et al. (2000), my college can be categorized below average in ICT implementation in education and school organization management.