ABSTRACT

This chapter offers a series of reflective questions, prompts and activities focused on information leadership to help the reader understand the personal, interpersonal and organizational consequences of their actions. It includes the following: Digital divide, Social justice leadership, Integrated learning systems, Access and equity, Information literacy, and Ethical paradigms. The chapter focuses on an educational leaders' ability to influence the information dynamics of the education process through formal and informal means. It emphasizes skills that include technology integration, technology support, online instruction/learning and generational technology differences in learning. A theoretical framework for applying ethics using multiple paradigms is suggested here for the purpose of addressing the issue of equity and social justice in the information age of computers. As information is increasingly codified in digital forms, new skills are needed to operate the technology to search for, organize, manage information, and use it to solve problems and create new knowledge and cultural products.