ICT in Education: Key Elements, Potential, and Emerging Issues

T1: Intro: ICT info communication technology CAI computer assisted inst | 4 KEY ELEMENTS

affect learning: learner, teacher, curriculum, infrastructure

Potential of IT:

1. As object: content, goals..
2. Medium to enhance teaching/learning process.

Infrastructure:

perceptions, curriculum design, infrastructure, school organization, educational policies.

Emerging issues:

1. Society industrial to knowledge / IT enhance teaching-learning.
2. Tech push: change education / educational pull: address educational needs.

TPCK (Tech, pedagogic. content knowledge):

emphasize interaction between 3 domains.

OLPC: One laptop per child. Strategies:

1. Access hardware
2. Local language
3. Qualified educators
4. Quality research
5. Access content creation.

T1: INFO society -> KNOWL. soc. (as commodity)

TABLA: demands society - required skills - learning strategies:

• Knowledge as commodity - knowledge construction - inquiry, constructivism
• Rapid change - adaptability-learning to learn
• Info explosion - finding, organizing - multidata base ex
• Poorly organized info - info management - database using
• Incompletely evaluated info - critical thinking - evaluation problem solving
• Collectivization of knowledge - teamwork - collaborative learning.

Educational outcomes for 21st:

• Communication (logic arguments), creativity in knowledge generation (innovation), collaboration, critical thinking, ICT literacy (new literacies), life skills (leadership)

KNOWLEDGE BASED MODELS:

1. Software help students new knowledge.
2. Knowledge building communities
3. Mindtools: optimize learning using software. Guided activities for high skills.

EPPP Emerging pedagogical practices paradigm by IEA:

1. Lifelong learning: learn to learn autonomously
2. Constructivism: collaborative learning
3. Information literacy: analyzing info

Student Knowledge framework: knowledge related skills:

1. Access, assemble, reorganize knowledge
2. Critically interpret, analyze, evaluate
3. Collaborate on projects and teamwork
4. Complex problem solving
5. Generate knowledge products
6. Communicate, present, disseminate
7. Select appropriate tools and evaluate impact.

They are needed for:

1. Plan strategies procedures
2. Choose appropriate ICT Tools
3. Collect and organize knowledge