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- 1. ICT Integration inEducation Boutkhil Guemide University Mohammed Boudiaf, M’sila Algeria
- 2. Course Outline INTRODUCTION Definition ofICT Characteristics of ICT Benefits of ICT in education Importance of ICT in School ICT Tools and digital technology ICT Architecture & Infrastructure ICT in School Educational ICT tools Challenges using ICT at school
- 3. INTRODUCTION Today's world isknowledge- based; it totally depends on exchanging information rapidly. Countries that are equipped with the technology and knowledge to participate in the new electronic world are major players in its socio- cultural and economic developments. Technology's ability and relevance can support the teaching/ and learning. ICTs can bring benefits on learner interaction and motivation. Type of technology- supported education/ and learning: The medium of instruction is through computer technology, and particularly involving digital technologies. UNESCO: Education For All. The World Education Forum (UNESCO, 2002): The important role of information and communication technologies.
- 4. Definition of ICT Informationand Communication Technologies, Different technological tools and resources used to communicate, create, disseminate, store, and manage information”, Computers, the Internet, broadcasting technologies.
- 5. ICTs: High- techdevices, such as computers and software, Technologies used to transmit, store, create, share, or exchange information (radio, television, DVD, telephone, satellite systems, computers, networks, hardware, software, video- conferencing, and
- 6. The British ComputerSociety: The scientific, technological and engineering disciplines and the management techniques used in information handling, processing, and disseminating; their applications; computers, networking and communication and their integration with men and machines; and associated social, economic and cultural matter. Turban et al. (2005): ‘Information Technology is an organization's collection of information resources, their users, and the management that oversees them; includes the IT infrastructure and all other information systems in the organization’.
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- 8. Benefits of ICTin education ICT offers support to make school more productive, ICT services network allow learners and teachers to save work on their own, and share resources with others, ICT classrooms’ equipment help learners to learn digitally, save pensile- paper, and encourage them to involve in classroom activities. ICT prepares students to participate in a rapidly changing world: Work and other activities are transformed by access to varied and developing technology, Learners use ICT tools to find, explore, analyze, exchange and present information creatively, Learners know how to employ ICT to access to ideas and experiences from a wide range of people, communities, and cultures, ICT promotes initiative and independent learning: Being able to make informed judgments about when and where to use ICT to best effect.
- 9. Multi- sensory delivery • Text • Graphics •Animation • Sound • Video Active Learning • Enhanced learner interest Cooperative Learning • Positive group • Social interaction Communication Skills • One-to-one • One-to-many • Many-to-many Multicultural education • Link students across the country/ around the world Motivation • Greater learner engagement
- 10. Importance of ICTin School The development of ICT has introduced four powerful worldwide changes that have altered the business environment, Organizations or societies that do not respond to these changes will not be able to survive and prosper in the new business environment.
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- 12. The widespread useof ICT has influenced education. Erdogan (2009): Many countries consider ICT as a potential tool for change and innovation in the education field …, they make large investments in the integration of ICT in schools. For example, Europe and Central Asia allocate 22% of their budget to ICT. Kozma & Anderson (2002) believed that for an economy to be knowledgeable education should be its primary necessity. Simultaneously, the teaching strategies in schools are bending towards ICT. This change towards ICT has been very dramatic.
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- 14. Students • Looking foranswers to their questions on the internet • Having more possibilities to be employed • Enabling students to move to higher- order thinking • Developing constructive thinking skills • Enhancing student understanding • Becoming knowledgeable Teachers • Facilitator/ Coach • Fruitful teachings • Framework for improving teaching Administrators • Use of automated systems • Important tool in research, library, documentation, etc.
- 15. Making learning moreinteresting: Understanding critical issues, Bridging distances: Using e- mails, phone, video- conferencing etc. Breaking literacy barriers in communication: Using interactive videos, Research and useful Information sharing: Using Internet, Creating of new employment opportunities (via ICTs/ with ICTs), Enhancing interaction with peers over long distance, Creating entertainment opportunities (games, music, video), Providing educational information (distance learning),
- 16. ICT Tools anddigital technology
- 19. ICT Architecture &Infrastructure ICT architecture: The building’s architecture. It serves as a broad blueprint for acquiring, developing, implementing, and integrating ICT in order to support the business functions and strategies of an organization. Services and processes, Information and data, Specific technology products that are deployed and integrated, Technical standards for building systems. ICT Infrastructure: The means to support and manage both ICT resources and services in the organization.
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- 22. ICT in School Widespreaduse of technology: It is important that children can grow with the knowledge and skills to use it. Via technology: Knowledge is free and available. The survival skills of 21st century learning: Critical thinking and problem solving, Collaboration across networks, Agility and adaptability, Initiative, Effective oral and written communication, Accessing and analyzing Information, Curiosity and imagination, The importance of ICT to education as a sector is far greater than the consideration of ICT as a discrete knowledge based subject, and it should be seen as such.
- 24. Embedded technology schools: Schoolswhich demonstrate effective and embedded use of ICT do transcend the knowledge based learning agenda. Staff and pupils are confident with skills and ICT use, Available technology schools: Technological tools are available, but not yet used and fully exploited for various resons, Knowledge Society: “know what”, “know why”, “know how” and “know who”.
- 25. Schools that areconfident with technology are moving away from knowledge- based curricula. Adopting programmes which focus on “Learning to learn” and “Enquiry- based learning”: Learning moves away from simple subject knowledge to higher level thinking skills in all subjects. Delivering what society and business want to see in the 21st century education system. No excessive concentration on ICT skills, but allowing these skills to support the delivery of a much wider and more relevant curriculum.
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- 28. Educational ICT tools Roblyerand Edwards: The use of ICT in education has evolved from two main approaches, namely behaviorist and constructivist instructional methods. The integration of ICT in teaching and learning: A medium in which a variety of methods, approaches, and pedagogical philosophies are implemented and used. The effectiveness of ICT: How and why it is applied and integrated. Taylor (1980) stated that ICT usage is classified to tutor, tool, and tutee. Tutorial programmes: Leading learners step- by- step through drill and practice. Using technology: Tutorials, or explanatory programmes helping learners to solve learning problems. ICTs: Tools where students programme the computers in order to gain more understanding. Integrating different ICT tools and applications in teaching and learning.
- 31. Barriers in usingICT at school As Schoepp defined, ‘a barrier is considered as any condition that makes it difficult to make progress or to achieve an aim’. Barriers: Preventing teachers to employ ICTs in the classroom, or develop supporting materials, The process of using ICT in everyday education is very complicated. ICT supporting teaching and learning is not problem- free. Barriers: Teacher-level barriers Vs. school-level barriers. Becta: Barriers are basically classified on whether they refer to individual (teacher-level barriers), such as lack of confidence, shortage of time, and resistance to change, or to the institution (school-level barriers), such as lack of effective training in solving technical problems and lack of access to resources, Balanskat et al.: Micro level barriers: Related to teachers’ attitudes and approaches to ICT, Meso level barriers: Related to the institutional context.