Is ICT Truly making an impact to education? We listen into researches and opinions from experts for a discussion to help us set a directives with future ICT for education, to answer, what should we do with ICT? What agendas and directives should we set with edtech and technology for education?

1. What do we do
with ICT?Is ICT truly making an impact to
Education? What do research and
experts say?

2. Agree? Or Not?
Picture from: http://www.innovationexcellence.com/

3. Studies show, ICT can make
a difference
Many factors & issues to be considered if ICT is to make a difference.
BUT…

4. 1. Factors for Successful integration of ICT
Studies indicate a variety of factors such as:
• teachers’ beliefs and theories on
education
• teachers’ training
• education policies,
• school practices and
• Organizational culture of the
school itself
(Hargreaves, 2003; Law, Pelgrum, & Plomp,
2008; Montero, 2007; Mumtaz, 2000; Somekh, 2008;
Webb & Cox, 2004).

5. Integration, therefore, must be
accompanied by a comprehensive
school project addressing the
necessary organizational and
methodological
changes. – JERO, Vol 3, 2011

6. 2. School incorporation of ICT =/= improvement
In teaching & learning

7. ICT will not make a
difference simply by
being used…
(Steve Higgins, New Castle
University)

8. ICT integration must be accompanied by
a change in the educational model
to impact
(Martinez-Bonafe & Adell, 2004, Montero, 2007; Sancho, 2006)

9. • Make a sustainable and supportive
conditions for innovation in schools.
3.
Personal factors
Institutional
factors
Leadership
factors
requires

10. Schools have been witness to an
epidemic of projects for innovation
contests and ministries’ requirements,
suggesting an idea of “novelty” (JERO,
Vol 3, 2011).
Educators need to now transit from
Projects to Practices. Focus on
educational and learners’ needs.

11. A true story of innovation

12. Future Desks, anyone?
< Source
Technology without pedagogy happens

13. Same old happens
Source: Wired.com
Same content in new medium

14. Experts say - the future of education is not about
digital textbooks and digital curriculum.
4.

15. Integration of Technology has been apparent
But transformist educators advocate more
than just technology in the classroom

16. Studies recommend the use of technologies as
a vehicle for change in schools, help to
develop the curriculum and provide new objectives,
processes and relations.

17. Experts believe ICT provides a catalyst for change…
But what change should we advocate?
5.
The answer is not out there, but the conversation is on-going

18. We need to Rethink education model. Rethink epistemology
ICT as an enabler in
the bigger scheme
of things

19. The new media of “Learning to Do”, not just “Learning to Know”
Aldrich, C. (2003). Simulations and the future
of learning. San Francisco: Pfeiffer
New Learning Goals with ICT
• To drive the process of learning
by doing, not “acquisition of
knowledge”
• For Mastery of Ability
• For Increased Professional Value
• For Actualization – becoming all
we can be

20. Aldrich, C. (2003). Simulations and the future of
learning. San Francisco: Pfeiffer
“Because you do not learn to
ride a bike from a book”

21. Reset the Learning Agenda. Rethink the Classroom
Traditional
• Teacher-centered
• Teaching means
transferring of
knowledge to students
• Learning is what gets
into the head of
students
Transformed
• Student-centered
• Process focused – learn to learn
• Project Based learning
• Authentic problem solving
• Cross disciplinary learning
• Ability to self organize/self-
directed
Adapted from hermanmiller.com: Source

22. Rethink Future of Schools
Schools in the Future
???
But not necessarily one
overdriven by technology or
automated by hi-tech.
Adapted from Timeline by Liddle Jess. Original Infographic Source
?
Q: Will the main
site of education
remain in formal
schools?
Modern Schools
Curriculum based
learning set by States.
Assessed by high stakes
exams

23. Rethink the Possibilities
• Apprenticeship
• Open Classrooms (More)
• Flipped Classroom (More)
• Self-Directed Alternatives (More)
• Task & Skill based curriculum
• Social Emotional Learning (More)
• Emotional Intelligence
• Integrated life-long learning
systems
• E-Teaching
• Global on-line simulations (More)
• Any other alternative, viable sites
for education, not necessarily
schools

24. ICT as the enabling mean to that end,
not the end itself.
Rethink the Big Picture.

25. Let’s not to gaze into the
crystal ball, but develop
an agenda for
technology stewardship
(Wenger, White, Smith, 2009, Digital
Habitats: Stewarding Technology for
Communities)

26. Education is a social process;
education is growth;
education is not
preparation for life,
but is life itself.
~ John Dewey
Bear in mind that,

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