Activity
- Find and explore websites of two schools using ICTs, one in your country and one abroad. On these websites you will find e-mail contact details, that you should use to communicate with the school. Think about what you would like to learn from their experience in having integrated ICTs at their school? Ask yourself the following questions as you review their site:
- What are they doing with ICTs at their school?
- How far is their ICT integration?
- What would you like to learn from these schools and their experience of having integrated ICTs in their school?
- Have they discovered any limitations from their experience of integrating ICTs at the school?
- What visions do they still have for the future of their school with ICT integration being a part of school life?
- How have they overcome difficulties and how have they celebrated successes?
- What was the leader's role in sustaining ICT integration and change at the school?
In addition to these questions, you may also have questions that have arisen from your own school experience. You might want to share these experiences with this school and explain something of your context.
- Construct an e-mail and send it to these schools. When you receive a response, make a brief comparison of these schools with your own by written points in your blog/e-diary. Include lessons that you have learnt from your correspondence with these schools.
- Send a message to your group (using the subject heading "Lessons learnt from other schools") commenting on the responses that you received from these schools, sharing just the most valuable ideas that you have read.
- Write a summary case study on one of the schools in your blog/e-diary with the heading Learning communities. This case study should be at least two pages long. Your case study should include information on the following:
- The Context of the School
- The School’s ICT use
- Lessons we can learn from them
- Recommendations for our own School
- Send a reminder that you have posted the case study inemail to your tutor (using the subject heading "Learning Communities") and ask for feedback.
Activity 5: Lessons Learnt from school
ReplyDeleteNot all schools feature their ICT programme online. The international school highlighted that the school had a great IT programme. It appeared that ICT integration had not reached their curriculum goal. The school's website was not up to date so it was not clear how ICT was integrated in their school.
We keep saying that we are moving forward to the next dimension of ICT. Yet, our online access or presence is barely existing. We speaking of equipping students with 21st century skills. Nevertheless, we are only teaching how to use a computer instead of using the computer to show them the world.
It appears that there is still a long way to go before we can say that the education system is being transformed and before we are truly providing our students with equal opportunities for rich learning.