ICT INTEGRATION

WHY NOW??

Step outside the dance floor…

• HIGHLY TRANSITORY NATURE OF STUDENT LIFE – ‘Third Culture Kids’

• INTERNATIONALLY MOBILE TEACHER COMMUNITY- ‘revolving-door-syndrome’!

• RECEEDING GLOBAL ECONOMY…– pressing need for managing ‘turbulence’ – Meaning making amidst transitions

STUDENT PERSPECTIVE

• Keeping the “thread of transition alive” with technology for TCKs

• Making teaching and learning more interactive – Moving beyond Power Point(less)

– Making lessons more engaging and

interesting for Generation “Y”!!?

• Enabling differentiation with IT• Scaffolding with Technology to enhance Zone of

Proximal Development (Vygotsky 1932)

“Bloom’s Taxonomy blooms” with ICT

TEACHER PERSPECTIVE

GATHERING ESSENTIALS OF A “21ST CENTURY TEACHERS’ BACKPACK”

• Nature of the profession– Engulfed in meeting deadlines… ‘live by the

bell’– Professional growth pattern

• essential to gather ‘skills’ as we go along…

Teacher Digital Portfolios

• Not a Soft Copy of your Resume• Engaging in ICT integrated pedagogy is essential

for building an effective Digital Teacher Portfolio– It is demanding and time consuming process– Need to prioritize and plan…set aside some

time• TEACHERS AS REFLECTIVE PRACTITIONERS-

ACTION RESEARCH (Whitehead and Mc Niff, 2006)

– Is not an end-product but is continuous and ongoing…

Essentials of the Tool KitPriorities at UAS for next year

– Smart Board Resources/using Note Book Software

– Inspiration– Parent/Student/Teacher Portals

ICT Integration Tools

• Training on Software Applications – • Options for The Tool Kit

– Ms Office

-Special focus on Ms Excel and Ms Access– Adobe Premium CS3

• Adobe Photoshop• Adobe Flash• Adobe Dreamweaver

– Audacity– Movie Maker and…so on…

Collaborative classrooms• Socially constructing knowledge (Vygotsky 1932)

• The world is flat ! (Freidman,T., 2005)

• Classroom without walls…social networking(Lindsay., 2006, 2010)

• Team-teaching and sharing of best practices• Wikis• Web Quests• Blogs• Podcasts• RSS Feeds

AIM

• Aim is not to become experts in any particular software as such…

• but to revisit our educational philosophies through ICT integration

• Continuous and ongoing training in various s/w applications and at the same time…

• viewing the above in relation to our pedagogical practices thereby becoming reflective practitioners

The Process…

• May/June - Initial Review- (surveys)

• May-June - Individual teacher meetings – (not more than10/15 mins!)

• September onwards - Regular PD sessions, support groups…

• after-school/lunches

• Choice and options – teachers’ preference!

Questions??