Educational Administrators and the use of Digital Technology Networks in Developing Teachers to be Professionals

Abstract

A new paradigm in education to provide Thai teachers with the necessary competencies in the digital age. It was a model and framework that defines the model or approach of educational management to be efficient and effective. Modern Thai teachers must have the knowledge and ability to use digital technology in learning management to enable learners to learn effectively and raise the level of Thai education to be more quality. by using a learning network exchange knowledge, ideas, information, news and learning among individuals, organizations and knowledge sources continuously until the system was linked, resulting in the dissemination and application of new knowledge with professional or social purposes by using computer networks to talk, communicate, discuss, send news amongst each other and connect around the world with various tools.

                 To be in the form of general infrastructure developing teachers to become professionals in the use of digital technology through personal learning networks. It was the application of content, substance, information from various parts in the Internet network to be useful in the education system which includes both social media research tools personal note or learning society, combining knowledge in 3 areas: content knowledge teaching knowledge and technology knowledge to help teaching using technology to be more effective. As a result, students can learn better and faster through such digital technology and the factors that will affect the success, besides teachers, was important for corporate executives who must be academic leaders and technology leaders able to direct and act in accordance with the changing conditions of digital technology.