UNESCO Bangkok: Portal for Teachers
This site provides a comprehensive range of useful ICT in Education information for teachers and educators, particularly those in the Asia-Pacific region, including: teaching guidelines, lesson plans, and links to online ICT teacher training courses.
How can ICT be used to reform education? How can we ensure that we tap the potential of ICT to enhance education? Access articles, reports and links to online journals and websites which explore these issues and offer guidelines for integrating ICT into educational programmes.
What are the implications, for teachers, of using ICT in education? What role will teachers play in the new knowledge societies? Here you will find articles and websites that respond to these questions, including perceptions of the teacher’s place in education in the modern world, how ICT can be used to support and motivate teachers and how to implement standards for teachers' ICT-competency.
This section provides links to teacher training projects and papers describing them. Educators and programme developers describe their projects and share their experiences and lessons learned. This section also provides links to online ICT courses.
This section explores the issues surrounding the use of ICT in teaching. The section also showcases the experiences of educators as they develop new ways of integrating ICT into their teaching practice. Links include articles on how to use ICT effectively in the classroom, and tips on how to harness the benefits of ICT to improve teaching and learning.
This section provides links to online lesson plans, activities and teaching materials. Materials are organized into subjects, including: arts, languages, health, physical education, mathematics, sciences and information technology.
In this section you will find links to downloadable software. Most software applications listed here are free or low-cost. Links are also available to websites that review shareware and freeware, and to guidelines for evaluating educational software.
How can teachers assess the validity and authority of internet resources? This section provides links to articles and websites that help teachers to determine which internet resources are reliable. Some websites define evaluation criteria, such as: appropriateness of content to the audience, authenticity and authority of the source, and affiliation of the author. Other sites focus on copyright issues.
This section provides links to articles about online collaboration. Strategies for organizing online collaboration are outlined, along with relevant pedagogies and useful tools. Links to collaboration projects are provided, along with information on intellectual property rights and the cultural implications of changes in educational systems.
This page focuses on how to develop online courses, and is presented in four sections. The first section contains articles about e-learning. The next section provides articles by course developers on how to create your own virtual course or school website. Followed by examples of online learning programmes, educational websites and free and low-cost software applications.
To what extent can new technologies be said to enhance teaching and learning? This section contains articles and papers describing research into the usefulness of ICT and describing ICT performance indicators. This section also contains links to websites containing tools and templates to assess the performance of teachers and students.