KEPIMPINAN TEKNOLOGI PEMIMPIN PERTENGAHAN DAN PENERIMAAN TEKNOLOGI MUDAH ALIH DALAM KALANGAN GURU SEKOLAH MENENGAH – SATU TINJAUAN AWAL

Abstract

Various studies on educational leadership focus on principals rather than the role of middle leaders, who are also the backbone of educational leadership. While principals will typically set the vision or mission of today’s digital education, the reality is that they rely heavily on a team of middle leaders to effectuate it. This reliance is because the middle leaders can directly lead teachers to determine their eventual success. In other words, middle leaders are more capable of influencing teachers to use mobile technology devices as a practice in the classroom because of their uniqueness and daily interaction with teachers, especially in daily instructional matters. Thus, this study aims to examine the level of technology leadership of middle leaders and the adoption of mobile technology. Subsequently, this study examined the relationship between technology leadership and teachers’ acceptance of mobile technology. A quantitative approach has been chosen in this study. The survey was conducted at a school in Padang Terap District with 30 respondents, using the Technology Leadership Adopted by Middle Leaders questionnaire by Leong et al. (2016) and the Adoption of Mobile Technology by Mohd Norakmar (2021). Descriptive analysis revealed that the technological leadership level of middle leaders was high (M = 3.80, SP = 0.51). Likewise, their level of acceptance of mobile technology was also high (M = 4.11, SP = 0.34). Meanwhile, Pearson’s correlation test showed a strong positive correlation between mid-level leaders’ technology leadership and mobile technology adoption (r = 0.75, p = 0.00). Therefore, every middle leader must build the character of a technology leader, especially to become an icon to teachers in the acceptance of mobile technology, to survive the current era of digital education, and to mitigate difficulties in manifesting educational changes.