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REALIZING OUR ICT4E VISION1
JAL@2008 ICT in Basic Education Congress
As some of you may know, DepED is in the final stages of
completing its Five-Year Information and Communications
Technology for Education Strategic Plan. This DepED ICT4E
Strategic Plan builds on earlier computerization strategies and
ICT plans developed by the Department with assistance from
stakeholders such as FIT-ED.
The DepED ICT4E is anchored on and supports the Basic
Education Sector Reform Agenda (BESRA). And you know,
BESRA has five Key Reform Thrusts based on the following
principles:
� School-based Initiatives;
� Standards;
� Strategies;
� Systems; and,
� Stakeholder engagement.
Clearly, these KRTs can be better achieved with extensive and appropriate use of ICT.
Two things make me proud about the DepED ICT4E plan that we are finalizing. First, it is
comprehensive yet detailed. Second, while benchmarked on global best practices, it is a result of an
extensive stakeholder engagement.
The Vision
Following the overall vision of the Department, our ICT4E
vision is “21st
Century Education For All Filipinos, Anytime,
Anywhere.” This means an ICT-enabled education system that
transforms our children into dynamic life-long learners and
values-centered, responsible citizens.
To achieve this, we will intensify our use of ICT to:
� Revitalize our schools;
� Link our learners to global resources;
� Enable learners to critically seek and analyze
information;
� Create new knowledge and products; and,
� Develop habits of self-learning.
To achieve our learner-centered ICT4E vision, we will undertake the following activities in the
next five years:
� Completely integrate ICT into the curriculum;
� Intensify competency-based professional development programs;
1 Message delivered by Department of Education Secretary Jesli A Lapus during the 3
rd National ICTs in
Basic Education Congress, Waterfront Hotel, Cebu City, 10 September 2008
Realizing Our ICT4E Vision
SJAL@2008 ICT Congress
3rd National ICTs in Basic Education Congress
10 September 2008
Waterfront Hotel, Lahug, Cebu City
BESRA Five Key Reform Thrusts (KRTs)
• Continuous School Improvement Facilitated by Active Involvement of Local Stakeholders;
• Better Learning Outcomes Achieved by Improved Teacher Standards;
• Desired Learning Outcomes Enhanced by National Curriculum Strategies, Multi-Sector Coordination, and Quality Assurance;
• Improved Impact on Outcomes Resulting from Complementary Early Childhood Education, Alternative Learning Systems and Private Sector Participation; and,
• A Change in DepED culture from prescribing actions through orders and memos to facilitating school initiatives and assuring quality
DepEd 5-year ICT4E Strategic Plan
Our Vision for ICT4E:
21st Century Education for all
Filipinos Anytime,
Anywhere.
Intensify use of ICTs to:
• Revitalize our schools to make them into dynamic, collaborative
and innovative learning institutions where students can become
more motivated, inquisitive and creative learners;
• Link our learners with the vast networked world of information
and knowledge to enable them to acquire a broad knowledge
base and a global outlook and provide them with the resources
for the development of creative mind;
• Develop skills and capacities in our learners that would enable
them to critically and intelligently seek, absorb analyze, manage
and present information;
• Create new knowledge and products; and,
• Develop habits of self-learning in our learners to nurture the
attitude and capability for lifelong learning.
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� Establish the necessary ICT infrastructure; and,
� Develop processes and systems for governance and
management
In this list, technology deployment is only 1 of the 4
activities we are targeting. This means, and I would like to
emphasize this – our ICT4E plan is not technology-led. Here,
we pay more attention to defining educational objectives
that ICT could help us achieve. We look at how we should
change the way we do things so that we can work smarter
with ICT; and, define how we can improve the capacity of our
people to effectively use ICT to serve our goals.
As we always say, providing our students with 21st
century skills is the goal of our educational system. While
21st
century skills go beyond ICT skills, development of ICT
competency remains an important goal to us. ICT
competency is the necessary condition to learn, work and
innovate with ICT. Thus, the ICT4E plan identifies the
learning targets for learners.
As you may know 21st Century Skills involves the delivery of digital age literacy requirements
for our learners to include the development of Inventive Thinking, Effective Communication,
Creativity, Collaboration and High Productivity.
In our plan, learners will acquire these skills during the formal years of schooling and in
alternative learning modes. Towards this, competency standards for elementary and general high
school students as well as technical-vocational high school students and ALS learners have been
identified.
Towards an Enhanced Curriculum
An important step in achieving our ICT4E vision is
curriculum reform where we will proceed in two stages. In
the initial stage, ICT will be integrated within the existing
curriculum. The second stage will see the full integration of
ICT in an enriched curriculum.
But even without this plan, efforts to integrate ICT in the
curriculum have started. And it is happening at the delivery
mode. ICT is taught at secondary schools as a separate subject
on computer education. We have outlined the deliverables at
the first stage.
The second stage or the full implementation of ICT in the
enriched curriculum will commence as soon as we’ve
completed stage I. Stage II will begin with a review of the
curriculum content in light of the radical changes brought about by ICT in society, economy and
politics.
Activities for the next five years:
• Completely integrate ICT into the curriculum, which
includes the development of multimedia
instructional materials, and ICT-enabled assessment;
• Intensify competency-based professional
development programs for our teachers, staff and
officials;
• Establish the necessary ICT infrastructure and
applications; and,
• Develop processes and systems that ensure efficient,
transparent and effective governance and
management
ICT Learning targets:
• Basic Operations and Concepts;
• Social, Ethical And Human Issues;
• ICT for Producing;
• ICT for Communicating;
• ICT for Researching; and,
• ICT for Problem-solving
ICT-enhanced Curricular Reform Stages
• In the initial stage, ICT will be
integrated within the existing
curriculum.
• The second stage will see the
full integration of ICT in an
enriched curriculum.
ICT-enhanced Curriculum Stage I Targets (1):
• reviewed the existing curricula and content with a
view to suggesting common teaching and learning
strategies using ICT;
• identified and shared ICT resources (e.g. relevant web-
sites or courseware) that can serve the general
purpose and specific elements of teaching and
learning in subjects, cross-curricular areas and
integrated studies;
• encouraged and institutionalized school-based efforts
to adapt ICT to different learning areas, subjects,
interests and abilities of students, and stakeholder
expectations;
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The ICT4E strategic plan also focused on digital content development or what we call
“Multimedia Instructional Materials Development.”
There are various independent initiatives within DepEd to
develop digital content. The materials that we have developed
(as opposed to those that are commercially procured) are
being collated and are already available for use by teachers
through the DepEd website. Despite these efforts, access to
existing digital content remains limited and creating a
comprehensive inventory of these materials continues to be a
challenge.
The ICT4E plan calls for the intensified development and
acquisition of Multimedia Instructional Materials
Development or MIM as supplement to, not as a replacement
of, existing (printed) instructional materials.
Competency Standards
To realize this ICT4E strategic plan, ICT competency
standards for teachers, education managers, school officials
and non-teaching personnel/administrative staff shall be
developed and adopted.
We have already started work on the DepEd ICT
Competency Standard for Teachers and we expect that this
standard will be adopted next year.
This standard defines the required ICT competency in 6
domains and 3 levels.
Teachers will be required to work towards the attainment
of the DepEd ICT Competency Standard. To assist them, a
comprehensive professional development program for
teachers will be developed. This program will be built on
existing in- service training initiatives.
I cannot overemphasize that to raise the ICT competency
of teachers would require support and collaboration among
DepEd, TEls, CHED, PRC and our private sector partners.
For our education managers and school administrators,
the Department will adopt similar national and globally
established competency standards such as ISTE/NETS
(International Society for Technology Education - National
Educational Technology Standards).
Consistent with our thrust of using global bench marks and adopting best practices, DepEd will
adopt an industry-based ICT Competency Standards relevant to our Non-Teacher
Personnel/Administrative staff.
ICT-enhanced Curriculum Stage I Targets (2):
• encouraged and helped schools to use ICT in
making internal assessment less labour
intensive; and
• conducted research on the impact of ICT on
student learning from the experiences of the
more pioneering schools to facilitate
informed decisions regarding the curriculum
and assessment modes.
Targets on Multimedia Instructional Development (1)
• Adopt Digital Content Development and Usability
Framework that would serve as a guide in the
development, adaption, adoption and/or
acquisition of MIM;
• Develop and adopt an Intellectual Property Rights
Framework and Guidance based on open content
principles to facilitate the development of MIM
and the sharing of digital content that are donated
to DepEd or developed by its teachers and officials
on a national level;
Targets on Multimedia Instructional Development (2)
• Provide incentives to encourage the
development of regional/local content by
teachers and other education personnel and
officials;
• Establish procurement guidelines for
commercially developed MIM. Like textbooks,
we will purchase copyright of commercial MIM.
Schools may independently source MIM only for
"special and local needs"
ICT Competency Standards for Teachers
• This standard defines the required ICT
competency in 6 domains:
– ICT;
– Pedagogy;
– Organization and Administration;
– Teacher Professional Development;
– Social, Ethical Legal and Human Issues; and,
– Evaluation and Assessment
ICT Competency Standards for Teachers
• ICT competency in these 6 domains
can be achieved in three levels:
–Basic
–Proficient
–Advanced
• Based on existing national and
international standards such as NICS
Teachers and UNESCO
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We envision a wide-reaching training program where all
our efforts would be synchronized, redundancies eliminated
and collective training effort maximized. DepEd will work
with other government agencies such as TESDA and CICT, as
well as private sector partners like Intel, Oracle, Microsoft,
Cisco; and stakeholders like FIT-ED, ideacorp and GILAS in the
training program's development and implementation.
Enterprise Architecture
To ensure that we have the right technology
infrastructure to support our plan, we are developing the
DepEd Enterprise Architecture. World class organizations do
not build ICT systems without an architectural framework.
This will set the right course for changes in the ICT landscape
so that the Department's education strategy receives long-
term technology support.
Governance
Our plan does not stop with the list of actions we need to
make. It also includes discussions on how to properly govern
and manage ICT in the Department.
Towards this, DepEd took the initial step in setting up an
ICT governance framework through DepEd Order 1 series of
2007. By next year, we would have established a DepEd ICT
governance framework that will be comprised of: 1) a set of
principles on ICT use and procurement, 2) an effective and
responsive decision-making hierarchy and 3) tailor-made
system of reporting and monitoring processes.
Our governance framework will ensure that DepEd senior
officials - in the central office and in the field - are involved in
ICT decisions. ICT is too important to be left in the hands of
technology experts or techies.
While we don't have anything against techies in ICT4E, we
nonetheless recognize that we need a sound and robust
technology and efficient processes. To ensure this, a
dedicated unit led by the DepEd Chief Information Officer has
to be created and properly staffed. Furthermore, we need
Chief Technology Officers or CTOs in the regions and divisions.
We have already proposed the creation of the DepEd CIO and
we are in the process of transforming our existing ICT
coordinators in the regions and divisions into CTOs.
As proof of our commitment to successfully implement this plan, we proposed funding for this
as part of our 2009 budget. We hope that the DBM and our legislators would not only approve the
funding for this year but also earmark bigger amounts in the next 5 years.
DepED Enterprise Architecture
• A "method of ICT standardization and
governance."
• The aim of our EA is to set the right
course for changes in the ICT
landscape so that the Department's
education strategy receives the best
possible, long-term technology
support.
DepED Enterprise Architecture
• We will establish an integrated ICT service
network that will enable efficient,
transparent and effective governance and
management.
• Prescribe systems that would minimize
the burden of data collection and
reporting from key school personnel to
allow them to focus on their critical tasks
in pedagogy.
DepED Enterprise Architecture
• Among the systems that will be developed, in the
order of priority, are:
– School-based Information Management System (includes
raw data on enrollment, assets, no of teachers, etc)
– Enterprise Learning Management System,
– Human Resource Information System - that interfaces wi
GSIS, Phil Health, BIR, DBM, banks, etc),
– Resources Management System
– Performance Management System
– Globalized Service Support
– Executive Information System (enhanced BEIS) with
Geographical Information System (GIS)
Governance
• Ensure that DepED senior
officials - in the central office
and in the field - are involved in
ICT decisions.
• ICT is too important to be left in
the hands of technology experts
or techies.
Governance
• A dedicated unit led by the DepED Chief
Information Officer needs to be created and
properly staffed.
• We need Chief Technology Officers or CTOs in
the region and division.
• Creation of the DepED CIO and we are in the
process of transforming our existing ICT
coordinators in the regions and divisions into
CTOs.
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The Community and ICT4E
But before I close, I would like to stress that we will not
succeed if we do it alone.
The successful integration of ICT into the Philippine
education system will require a coordinated and
comprehensive approach. It demands the active participation
of all education stakeholders.
As learning will increasingly occur anywhere, anytime, the
community will play a vital role as partners of DepEd in
ensuring a safe and stimulating ICT learning environment.
It is recognized that parents will play a vital role in
encouraging and guiding their children towards the
achievement of our goals. They are also the most important
support mechanism for the success of the ICT4E strategic plan.
DepEd will continue to encourage the private sector and
NGOs such as FIT-ED to become involved in helping schools
achieve the strategic thrusts of this plan.
We also count on the local government units which can
provide significant resources for us to establish sustainable
ICT-enabled schools.
Conclusion
For far too long, we work in parallel, and sometimes even in cross purposes, in our efforts to
harness the power of ICT in education. Ultimately, our various efforts fail to meet the challenge of
the times. We had successful pilots but we never scaled them nationally. And they eventually fold up
when external funding ends. In the meantime our learners suffer.
With this plan, we now have the opportunity to bring our
collective strength together, work hand in glove - and even
achieve synergy.
This ICT4E strategic plan as it stands can still be improved.
Our technical experts in Manila cannot anticipate the ICT
requirements of teachers and students in Malaybalay. This is
the reason why we are going through an extensive
consultation to improve our ICT4E plan. Last month, the team
that is putting this plan together has completed consultations
in Regions 10 and 12 and Northern Luzon. Earlier this month they conducted the Southern Luzon
consultation and by the end of this month consultations in the Visayas and the Central Office.
If you have been unable to participate in these consultations, go to our website, download the
plan, read it and send your comments to my office or through email at
[email protected]. All comments and suggestions are welcomed. And debate
on the document is encouraged.
The Community and ICT4E
• We will not succeed if we do it
alone
• The community will play a vital
role as partners of DepED in
ensuring a safe and responsible
ICT learning environment
The Community and ICT4E
• Parents
• Private sector and non-government
organizations
• Local Government Units
• Local community facilities such as
Community eCenters and local
Internet Cafes
The Community and ICT4E
• we now have the opportunity to
bring our collective strength
together
• work hand in glove - and even
achieve synergy -- for our children
and their future
Please email your comments,
suggestions and recommendations to:
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However, once we've finalized the document and we
begin its implementation, I would ask that all of us stop
debating and begin working together. There is no time left to
waste. We are already on a catch-up mode. We have to
implement our ICT4E plan with the single mindedness that we
have not seen before. We have to be relentless and tireless
because nothing less than the future of our nation is at stake.
Thank you for your patience. I look forward to working
with all of you as we forge on to deliver 21st
century education
for all Filipinos, anytime, anywhere.
Mabuhay tayong lahat!
Realizing Our ICT4E Vision
SJAL@2008 ICT Congress
3rd National ICTs in Basic Education Congress
10 September 2008
Waterfront Hotel, Lahug, Cebu City