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ICT in Non-US Preservice Teacher Education

ICT in Teacher Education is a Global Issue

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Abraham Maslow’sHierarchy of Individual Needs

A hierarchy applicable to people throughout the world.

1. Biological and Physiological Needs (air, warmth, shelter, food, sleep, etc.)

2. Security Needs (protection from danger)

3. Social Needs (love, friendship, comradeship)

4. Ego Needs (self respect, personal worth, autonomy)

5. Self Actualization Needs (full potential)

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Maslow’s ExpandedHierarchy of Individual Needs

Think about where ICT fits into this.

1. Biological and Physiological Needs (air, warmth, shelter, food, sleep, etc.)

2. Security Needs (protection from danger)

3. Social Needs (love, friendship, comradeship)

4. Ego Needs (self respect, personal worth, autonomy)

5. Cognitive & Aesthetic Needs

6. Self Actualization Needs (full potential)

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American Indians Within the territorial US there are about 500

American Indian Nations. Their culture, language, traditions, religion, etc

are a critical component of what they are. The US has a long history of doing serious

damage to American Indian cultures, language, values, etc. via informal and formal education of American Indians and other means.

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People’s Republic of China

Fong, Vanessa L. (2004). Only Hope: Coming of Age Under China’s One-Child Policy. Quoting:

Parents, whether educated or not, spent hours nightly sitting next to their children making certain they would study. They forbade their children to do any housework, deprived themselves of visits to the bathhouse in favor of their children (p. 144).

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Quoting Vanessa Fong

A mother lost her factory work and couldn’t give her daughter money to buy snacks during school. The father, however, insisted, “give her the money! … It’s a small price to pay if it helps her get into college.” (p. 160)

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Quoting Vanessa Fong

A junior high school daughter tried to set the table for dinner, but her mother shoved her away. “Every minute should be spent on your studies…. Don’t waste your time in the kitchen” (p.165).

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UN Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization

UNESCO Bangkok. ICT portal for teachers. http://www.unescobkk.org/

There are many ongoing projects. They tend to be strongly oriented to the needs of individual countries.

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UNESCO: India

June 14, 2004 The Seelampur Community ICT Centre is a learning centre for girls and women located in a high-density, low-income area in India's capital New Delhi. 

It is one of nine UNESCO project sites which seek to addresses both the root cause of poverty and barriers to (ICT) by poor individuals and communities.

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India The International Finance Corporation, a World Bank

subsidiary has invested $1.6 million in a project called 'Hole in the Wall', where computer kiosks are being placed in urban slums and street children with almost no education are teaching each other on the use of computers. The project encourages underprivileged children in India to learn from a web-based curriculum through Internet kiosks, which will be installed in more than 60 locations over the next three years. The aim is to improve education for poor children, ensuring equal access for girls and boys.

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India New Delhi: Union HRD Minister Arjun Singh today

(May 17, 2005) called on the educational institutions in the Country to effectively utilise the latest Information and Communications Technology (ICT) resources to provide high quality education.

He said that while disseminating knowledge using the latest ICT resources, institutions should also focus on spreading the message of "religious tolerance, democratic values and removal of inequities."

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India There are more illiterate individuals in India than any other

country in the world; at the same time India has highly competent human resources as well as a strong base in ICT.

More than 25% (59 million school-aged children) are not now in school. [Contrast this number with the total of about 50 million school age children in the US currently in schools.]

… relative lack of ICT resources and access in the schools. Thus, the project design is to take advantage of ICTs to assist in all dimensions of the project.

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$100 Laptop Project

Nicholas Negroponte is heading up a project to produce $100 laptop computers and to give away and/or sell several hundred million of these in developing nations.

http://laptop.media.mit.edu/

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India’s $100 Computer

Various companies in India are working to develop an inexpensive computer

See: http://news.com.com/Indias+renaissance+The+100+computer/2009-1041_3-5752054.html

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Final Questions and Comments