Why and how are teachers integrating ICT (Information and Communication Technology) into primary education? In this course we analyse examples from schools in different parts of the world, and bring professional teachers, headteachers and policymakers together to share their best ideas and inspiring stories. The materials in the course are based on studies carried out for the UNESCO Institute of IT in Education, Moscow. Learning Outcomes: to be aware of the range of reasons for using ICT to critique the strategies for developing ICT over time to analyse the strengths and weakness of different decision-making mechanisms to become familiar with a wider range of useful tools and resources for integrating ICT
Challenges & obstacles - Bury
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Del curso dictado por University of London
ICT in Primary Education: Transforming children's learning across the curriculum
46 calificaciones
University of London
46 calificaciones
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Inspiring examples and implementation concerns
This week we hope to enable you to identify the different dimensions of implementation issues, and apply them to your own context and to become aware of problems that can be encountered in using ICT. We also wish you to share and build some solutions to these concerns and problems and consider these solutions to be of different kinds: learning design, infrastructure, negotiation with parents, communities of practice, policies, staff development, pedagogical innovations, differentiation, affordable access, and teaching support.
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Professor Diana LaurillardProfessor of Learning with Digital Technologies
London Knowledge Lab, UCL Institute of Education, University of London
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I'm Jocelyn Bennett, and I'm teaching here at Pope Memorial in Berry.
Berry is a small town in Quebec.
We are only 1,000 people.
And the countryside around us, there's
mountains and rolling hills, we're fortunate
enough to be beside a golf course where we take the children skiing.
There are about 66 children in this school at this time.
It's an elementary school from K to six.
Presently we're using iPads in the grade 5 and 6 classroom,
but we're also, we also have five other iPads that we're using.
The grade 1 and 2 classroom are using them to study math, or to do math games.
We're using it in kindergarten as well.
That, and grade three and four.
My classroom has 17 students and...
>> My name is Sharon Priest.
I am the communications coordinator, sorry,
consultant with the Eastern Township School Board.
My history is that I previously was a School
Board Commissioner and Superintendent, and was involved when Eastern Township
School Board first decided, over ten years ago, to
introduce technology, a systemic approach to technology across the board.
We've had as many over 5600 laptops deployed in the school board, and
over the years had changed that deployment,
and now we're looking at iPad minis.
I'm also a mother of two children who went through the system, and one
son who was that very first cohort who had the laptop that very first.
Had a very interesting experience of being a volunteer parent there in, I believe it
was, end of September October when we
handed out the first laptops of the deployment.
And it's quite interesting when you have students coming
up and saying to you, thank you, thank you.
It's like another Christmas Day, because they're
getting this tool to use in the classroom.
So that was my experience from a
parent and from a school commissioner's standpoint.
The introduction of the, of the technology, but as,
and we were discussing I mean, this hasn't been easy.
We, introduced this to a whole group of teachers and they're the key role.
I really think that, you know, yourselves you're what makes it
happen in the classroom, and how was there the support, training?
How did you find that
>> Well, when I started, I had come into teaching later in life.
So I started, the first the year I started was the second year of Lockjump.
So I had just been doing university for four years, so I had to know a little bit
about technology, so it may not look like to me.
So therefore, just some technology in something, I knew
it could be a really good tool in the classroom.
The, we've had workshops for iPads, there's, we
just went to a workshop to learn about animation.
Which we assume that you are using
in the classroom, building stories and narrative...
>> Mm-hm.
>> And we have to buy a tripod, now.
[LAUGH].
So, we can do that.
So there, there are opportunities.
And now, because of technology there are also webinar's are in those kind of...
>> Mm-hm.
>> Information sessions that can help.
I really can't speak for the other teachers, because that was my experience,
so it was, you know, very positive, in the way I had that background.
And I was really happy to see that we would be
able to, each student would be able to have their computer.
I was also here before we had the one to one, volunteering as
a parent and working with the big
computers, when my children were in school.
>> Right.
>> So
>> People being concerned about students
encountering inappropriate information, and when you
give them an assignment how do they know good information from bad information?
My understanding is there's no blockers.
The students are not, not blocked from any websites.
There's not a list of appropriate or inappropriate, how
do you deal with that on a daily basis?
>> Well, we deal with it by teaching the students every day
to question what is on the laptop, question what is on the Web.
To help them to have the tools to judge it for themselves.
So, if it's inappropriate, then they'd have to tell us right away.
We help them to learn about information,
because they're all kinds of websites out there.
There's all kinds of information, so that's part
of what we have have to teach them.
And they, they are not, in this way
we feel, giving them those tools helps protect them
from that information, by letting them be the ones
that can decide and think critically about the websites.
Because in the, If you just try to ban them, it's very difficult to ban websites
and children have technology all around them, very often, every minute of the day.
So to teach them how to know what is good information and how to know what is
appropriate to think critically, it's part of their education about life in general.
And, but especially applied to laptops, we just continue it with the technology.
The transfer from, because we went from MacBooks to iPads and iPad Minis.
Was there a learning curve for them?
How did they adapt all the sudden?
>> Just like that.
[LAUGH].
They, they hardly blinked an eye, because during the
past ten years something has, there's been some many changes.
But that is technology today, and it's just changing, changing, changing.
So, what we're teaching, really, is adapting to
change, and that's a big part of the classroom.
And that's why we're asking the students oh, what can you do?
They're not looking to me, or even to a technician that comes
in once a week, they're finding ways themselves to solve those problems.
And they're amazingly good at it, because they have had the
technology for they've grown up with it.
And they do find many ways, they share it as a community, they help each other.
So it really, they, they've enjoyed this.
They've had a lot of fun.
I think one of the things that we had to reassure parents about, was that we
weren't just going to be on laptops every
minute of the day, that they were also writing.
And doing, we were writing, reading, and doing math, in
very regular ways as well as using this other tool.
So I, I remember reassuring people at open houses and so on.
Because they had questions.
>> Mm-hm.
>> Mm-hm.
>> And I think that's a legitimate fear, that they just felt that
oh, they're not even going to write anymore, you know, they're just going to.
>> I know that's it.
That it.
It's a tool.
It's another tool.
So, as I was saying before, the abacus.
I can remember when scientific calculators came in, and there was that fear
that we would forget how to, how to do math and so forth.
And it's another tool, and it's the evolution.
And, I mean it's our responsibility as educators.
Myself, working with an educator and a pedagogue, to prepare students,
to prepare their children for their future, not what our future was.
And not what necessarily what we're living now, but what they're going to be living.
And I think having that ease and comfort with the
technology, the world we know is getting smaller every day.
We are, we'd be doing them a
disservice without giving them, you know, that formation.
well, as you said, you started with technology.
But I think, some of the, one of the difficult things for
some teachers were that traditionally, they
are the ones that disperse the knowledge.
The students look to them, which is only, only natural.
That's the role that teachers have played.
With the introduction of technology, and more
specifically the internet, there's a shared responsibility.
And the role of the teacher really does change,
and in a sense, almost coming around the desk.
And, and it, it is, it's a learning curve.
It's something, a different way you have to learn of approaching your class.
For you?
>> For me, well once again I, at the time that I went through Bishop's University
for my education, the new Quebec education plan was very much about that.
So it wasn't, it was, you were the role, your role is facilitator.
You do all, you use many teaching methods, and explicit teaching
is still there, but there is also a lot of inquiry, project based, so that
the children are managing to learn how to learn for themselves.
>> There you go.
>> So it really wasn't an issue for
me, because I haven't been teaching for 30 years.
If I would've been, I, you might get a different answer.
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Someone else that would be, but that's the
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I would just say to try to look at it as a tool,
and then as a tool, how many uses can you find for it.
So that in every one of your lesson plans you might think throughout your day oh, oh
I could use this to teach math, or, how can you
bring it in because it, in that it doesn't have to be in a huge formal lesson.
It can be in small ways as well as larger ways.
I found that it's worked for me, and that once you
start think of it that way, that you will find more uses.
I think once you get past the first use, the first time that you, I
remember at the very beginning when I
was a parent volunteer using the older computers.
I think maybe I was maybe a little bit nervous then.
There was all this talk that if you pressed the delete
button, everything would be lost forever and we didn't understand it.
But the more you use it, the more
you understand it, the more comfortable you get.
And I know that everything's going to
change again next year, and the year after.
But once you have that basic knowledge that in a general way...
>> Mm-hm.
>> This is the way things work, and that you
can problem solve, then you lose that fear or [NOISE]...
>> With the laptops, definitely there
are issues, the students themselves were telling
you they find the iPad minis more durable than they did the laptops.
We always self financed, and the repairing and so forth ourselves.
We didn't necessarily take out insurance on them, and I think that we found out
that although in different pockets with different
age groups and so forth there were issues.
They, they do break as we all know.
We have, it's happened to all of us, but they do take very good care of them.
They have an understanding of respect for the technology.
In the beginning, and I know that this you said, with introduction now
of a new platform, an integral part is the PT, the pentagonal training.
The sessions for the teachers plus the technician's and so forth, to
make sure that they are comfortable with the technology, that they understand.
And then, because, as you say, once we handed the iPad Minis to
these kids, to the students, they knew instinctively what to do with them.
But we had to make sure that that
the teachers and the pedagogy there was strong.
And, again, helping teachers and assisting them in
finding ways to use it as a pedagogical tool.
And everybody has different comfort levels, and
I think you have to be prepared
for that as a school district to meet those challenges and meet those needs.
And make sure that you in, as you're planning it, you make sure that
you put enough into your resources and into your people and into that support.
Because if not, then that's where you'll start to have some of those difficulties.
If you, if you possibly can to try to introduce it, because I think you
will see changes in the, in the culture, in the dynamics, and how students learn.
We've noticed a lot of improvements in our school board ranking.
We've noticed a decrease in our dropout rate.
We heard today one young gentleman in the classroom
say that he's more engaged, school is more fun.
And I think that I would strongly recommend to try it.
There are different school boards across the, the, the
world, mostly in North America, that have gone with it.
I think they'd be more than willing to help
and assist, but I think it is the future.
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