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Presentation at Eden- Valencia 2010
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ICT IN EDUCATION: HOW CAN
TEACHERS OVERCOME THIS
CHALLENGE?CHALLENGE?
Maria Paulina de Assis
Institute of Education, University of London, UK
Renata Aquino Ribeiro, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, Brasil
AGENDA
• ICT in Education
• Formal and Informal Education
• Dimensions of ICT in Education
• Challenges• Challenges
• How to overcome the challenges
• Knowledge
• Engagement
• Practice
ICT IN EDUCATION
• To teach
• To learn
• To interact
• To enhance learning• To enhance learning
• To co-construct
knowledge
DIMENSIONS OF ICT IN FORMAL
EDUCATION
PEDAGOGICALPEDAGOGICAL
ORGANIZATIONAL
TECHNICAL
SOCIO CULTURAL
FORMAL AND INFORMAL EDUCATION
• Formal
– Content delivery
– Interaction
– Co-construction of knowledge
• Informal
– Corporate
Informal learning tools and techniques can be combined with a formal approach
People are being educated for their professional lives »
» they will continue with their education on a lifelong learning basis.– Corporate
– Lifelong learning
– Social, cultural learning
• Open Resources: formal orinformal?
http://openlearn.open.ac.uk
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/home/home/index.htm
http://www.oercommons.org
basis.
The boundaries between these two fields can be blurred
FORMAL AND INFORMAL EDUCATION:
a continuum
Formal Corporate Communities
CHALLENGES FOR EDUCATORS
• terminology
• technological development
• range of new tools
• teachers’ lack of confidence in using new • teachers’ lack of confidence in using new
technology
• technologies are not created for educational
purposes
HOW TO OVERCOME THE
CHALLENGES?
• Knowledge
• Engagement
• Practice
KNOWLEDGE
• Information – what is available? What do I
need? What is appropriate?
• ICT Literacy – how to deal with it?
• Theories of learning – use them?• Theories of learning – use them?
ENGAGEMENT
• ... to know what to require from the technical staff.
• ... changes in the management of classroom activities, pedagogical plans, and policies, head staffstaff
• ... in the analysis, design, development, implementation and evaluation of the project of ICT for Education.
• Communication among the people involved in the project with different responsibilities is essential.
PRACTICE
• Sharing good practices
• Collaboration
• Teacher as action-researcher
CONTACT