What do we do with ICT?Is ICT truly making an impact to Education? What do research and experts say?

Agree? Or Not?

Picture from: http://www.innovationexcellence.com/

Studies show, ICT can make

a difference

Many factors & issues to be considered if ICT is to make a difference.

BUT…

1. Factors for Successful integration of ICTStudies indicate a variety of factors such as:

• teachers’ beliefs and theories on education

• teachers’ training• education policies, • school practices and • Organizational culture of the

school itself (Hargreaves, 2003; Law, Pelgrum, & Plomp,2008; Montero, 2007; Mumtaz, 2000; Somekh, 2008; Webb & Cox, 2004).

Integration, therefore, must be accompanied by a comprehensive school project addressing the necessary organizational and methodologicalchanges. – JERO, Vol 3, 2011

2. School incorporation of ICT =/= improvementIn teaching & learning

ICT will not make a difference simply by being used…(Steve Higgins, New Castle University)

ICT integration must be accompanied by

a change in the educational modelto impact

(Martinez-Bonafe & Adell, 2004, Montero, 2007; Sancho, 2006)

• Make a sustainable and supportive conditions for innovation in schools.

3.

Personal factorsInstitutional

factorsLeadership

factors

requires

Schools have been witness to an epidemic of projects for innovation contests and ministries’ requirements, suggesting an idea of “novelty” (JERO, Vol 3, 2011).

Educators need to now transit from Projects to Practices. Focus on educational and learners’ needs.

A true story of innovation

Future Desks, anyone?

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Technology without pedagogy happens

Same old happens

Source: Wired.com

Same content in new medium

Experts say - the future of education is not about digital textbooks and digital curriculum.

4.

Integration of Technology has been apparent

But transformist educators advocate more than just technology in the classroom

Studies recommend the use of technologies as

a vehicle for change in schools, help to develop the curriculum and provide new objectives, processes and relations.

Experts believe ICT provides a catalyst for change… But what change should we advocate?

5.

The answer is not out there, but the conversation is on-going

We need to Rethink education model. Rethink epistemology

ICT as an enabler in the bigger scheme

of things

The new media of “Learning to Do”, not just “Learning to Know”

Aldrich, C. (2003). Simulations and the future of learning. San Francisco: Pfeiffer

New Learning Goals with ICT• To drive the process of learning

by doing, not “acquisition of knowledge”

• For Mastery of Ability• For Increased Professional Value • For Actualization – becoming all

we can be

Aldrich, C. (2003). Simulations and the future of learning. San Francisco: Pfeiffer

“Because you do not learn to ride a bike from a book”

Reset the Learning Agenda. Rethink the Classroom

Traditional

• Teacher-centered• Teaching means

transferring of knowledge to students

• Learning is what gets into the head of students

Transformed

• Student-centered• Process focused – learn to learn• Project Based learning• Authentic problem solving• Cross disciplinary learning• Ability to self organize/self-

directed

Adapted from hermanmiller.com: Source

Rethink Future of SchoolsSchools in the Future

???But not necessarily one

overdriven by technology or automated by hi-tech.

Adapted from Timeline by Liddle Jess. Original Infographic Source

?Q: Will the main site of education remain in formal

schools?

Modern SchoolsCurriculum based

learning set by States. Assessed by high stakes

exams

Rethink the Possibilities

• Apprenticeship• Open Classrooms (More)

• Flipped Classroom (More)

• Self-Directed Alternatives (More)

• Task & Skill based curriculum• Social Emotional Learning (More)• Emotional Intelligence • Integrated life-long learning

systems • E-Teaching• Global on-line simulations (More)

• Any other alternative, viable sites for education, not necessarily schools

ICT as the enabling mean to that end, not the end itself.

Rethink the Big Picture.

Let’s not to gaze into the crystal ball, but develop an agenda for technology stewardship(Wenger, White, Smith, 2009, Digital Habitats: Stewarding Technology for Communities)

Education is a social process;

education is growth; education is not preparation for life, but is life itself.

~ John Dewey

Bear in mind that,

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