Knowledge Management
This exploration highlights critical knowledge management challenges faced in educational settings. It focuses on retaining the knowledge of outgoing educators, orienting new educators to a culture of knowledge sharing, and establishing sustainable sharing practices. Key questions address the effectiveness of in-service teacher development, the mentoring of less experienced teachers, and the utilization of staff and student skills and knowledge. Additionally, it discusses technological applications for capturing, cataloguing, transforming, and disseminating information to support effective knowledge management in schools.
Knowledge Management
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Presentation Transcript
Three knowledge management challenges • Retaining the knowledge of outgoing educators; • Orienteering new educators to a knowledge sharing culture; • Establishing and maintaining a knowledge sharing culture.
Key questions • How well do in-service teacher development programs cater for changing needs? • How effectively do teachers share their accumulated wisdom, experiences and skills? • How common is it for teachers to mentor younger, or less experienced teachers? • Are there continuing experiments and explorations to find better ways of teaching and running schools? • Are we effectively using the whole range of skills and knowledge of our staff? Do we even know what these are? • Are we effectively using the whole range of skills and knowledge of our students?
Technologies to support knowledge management • Applications for capturing information; word processor, spreadsheet , web page, email, school admin programmes, EMIS programmes • Applications for cataloguing and storing information; spreadsheet, database , school administration, EMIS programmes • Applications for transforming information; spreadsheet, mindmapping, online thinking tools • Applications for disseminating information; and presentation, publications, email, web pages
