1. Introduction to ICTs and their applications in education
• Role of ICTs in teaching methodology renovation (ICTs and pedagogy)
• New roles of teachers in the ICT environment
• Selecting strategies/technologies for teacher training

 

2. Optimizing the use of ICTs in schools (for administrators and policy makers)
• Overview of ICT use in education and introduction to instructional technology
• Drivers and barriers to use of ICT in education
• Strategic planning, developing the education ICT/vision
• The need for a technology plan in the schools –architecture and infrastructure, functions, services and capabilities
• Role of school administrator
• Issues in teacher training and professional development
• Technical sustainability
• Identifying opportunities to apply ICTs and designing ICT strategies
• Policy on appropriate ICT use
• Creation of acceptable use policy
• Information literacy and telecollaborative learning
• Financing Centre operations
• Partnerships, community mobilization and strategies for resource generation
• Monitoring and evaluation
• Basics of WWW, email, distance learning, etc.

 

3. ICTs and pedagogy
• Pedagogical principles for integrating ICTs into classrooms
• Building critical thinking skills in the classroom
• Constructivism in the classroom
• Creating units to support differing learning styles – multiple intelligences
• Curriculum mapping
• Utilizing technology in creating problem-based curriculum
• The Internet as a pedagogical innovation

 

4. Basic hardware/software/applications per se (not necessarily linked to teaching/learning)
• Basic computer parts and functions (opening, closing and saving files, optimizing hard disk, managing files, opening and renaming files, viruses, zipping and unzipping, etc.)
• Operating systems (Windows Operating System, others)
• Software applications – MS Office (specify – not necessarily linked to teaching/learning)
• Word processing (MS Word)
• Spreadsheet (Excel)
• Presentation (PowerPoint)
• Website navigation and Internet searching (Internet Explorer, Netscape)
• E-mailing (MS Outlook, Eudora, Pegasus)
• Website development/designing (FrontPage, Dreamweaver)
• Graphics and drawing (Paint Shop Pro, PhotoDraw, Adobe Illustrator, Inspiration)
• Database, data entry, and programming (Access, PASCAL, Coldfusion)
• Desktop publishing (Publisher, PageMaker, etc.)
• Designing print materials (elements of design and layout, using fonts, graphics and colours)
• Scanning text and graphics
• Video – video production and editing (script writing, shooting, video graphics, sound recording, editing)
• Chatting, discussing (ICQ)

 

5. Use of basic software/applications in teaching and learning
• Creating students report in Word, Access, others
• Using Excel to create class lists, for assessment record keeping in the classroom, alarms, split screens, assessment, and print worksheets and spreadsheets etc.
• Creating animations for integration into art studies
• Using WebQuests (online problem solving tasks and to support a thinking-oriented and student-oriented curriculum) to collaboratively develop their own online curriculum resources
• Using PowerPoint for presentations in the classroom for a variety of curriculum areas
• Using NetMeeting in the classroom, including the use of chat, whiteboard sharing, files, cameras and microphones
• File management for teachers for creating folders, moving files, renaming files, etc. for their assignments and documents
• Using Publisher to create a class newsletter or teachers’ newsletter and students’ publications
• Using FrontPage/Dreamweaver for creating a classroom webpage
• Internet for teaching/learning

-Effective searching strategies and techniques
-Online research
-Evaluating websites
-Online ethics and Netiquette
-Intellectual property and Copyright laws
-Creating an acceptable use policy
-Internet access and safety issues
-Using Internet for teacher-led instruction and student directed learning and project-based learning
-Creating an Internet-based lesson plan
-Meeting academic standards with Internet
-Publishing on the Web

• Creating website or web page for teaching/learning

-Website as a pedagogical communications tool
-Website as a container of curricular materials
-Web publishing in the classroom
-Tools and fundamentals for web page creation and publishing
-Building a Web-based project or activity that integrates the Web into the classroom
-Building a telecollaborative library

• Using email for telecollaboration
• Developing productivity tools like templates, tests, mark sheets
• Creating multimedia presentations for teaching a lesson

-Various basics, tools, software, multimedia applications to create a multimedia project for the classroom (HyperStudio, KidPix, PowerPoint, etc.)
-Search from the Internet for good multimedia lessons, activities and resources as well as pedagogical issues
-Creating a standard-based lesson, unit or project that integrates multimedia

 

6. Integrating ICTs into classrooms and subjects

 

A.ICT and pedagogy integration (Instructional technology and use in various models of teaching/learning as well as design and principles for integration into subject curriculum and classrooms)

• Technology and instructional concept and design and application to teaching/learning principles/models:
• instructional strategies and learning effectiveness
• ICT-based tools for designing constructivist activities; project-based work; building critical thinking skills; collaborative activities; interdisciplinary project work; other interactive multimedia-based activities to empower the learners as a whole
• ICT-based activities to support differing learning styles and those with special needs
• instructional media design and multimedia design based on various learning principles
• The Internet as a pedagogical innovation

• Principles for integrating ICT into the classroom
• Curriculum mapping
• ICT use in creating problem-based curriculum
• Planning and developing a technology integrated lesson (curriculum enrichment):
• Analysing a subject and/or reviewing a lesson plan of a specific subject and planning to incorporate effective teaching/learning principles and use of ICTs
• Improving or creating an ICT-based lesson plan (empowering subject/lesson plan with ICT); or preparing unit lesson plan template, portfolio rubric and sample unit portfolios of lessons
• Locating resources from Internet; CD, etc. for the sample unit/lesson plan;
• Creating subject unit/lesson plan support materials (spreadsheets, multimedia presentations, publications, student and teacher’s support materials, grade book worksheet, creating student database; websites, videos, PowerPoint, etc.)
• Putting a lesson plan together
• Assessing lesson plans
• Planning on how to integrate the improved lesson into the teaching of a specific subject

• Best practices and ICT models of technology integration
• Integrating telecollaboration and online discussion forum into existing curriculum
• Teaching and classroom management
• Introduction to One-Computer classroom
• The Next Wave: Cutting-edge Technologies in Education

 

B. Integrating ICTs into teaching specific subjects

• Use of ICTs in science
• How ICTs improve the teaching/learning of science or how to improve science teaching through intelligent and informed use of technology
• Searching and using Internet resources for science materials and lessons
• Science education on the Internet
• Use of computers software and calculators for science teaching
• Use of computers to simulate scientific phenomena and use of graphic calculators to collect and analyse data
• Constructing technology-enhanced lesson or lesson plan within a science curriculum
• Use of ICTs in Mathematics
• How ICTs improve the teaching/learning of mathematics or how to improve mathematics teaching through intelligent and informed use of technology
• Searching and using Internet resources for mathematics materials and lessons
• Use of computers software and calculators for mathematics teaching
• Use of computers and graphic calculators to collect and analyse data and to build and test mathematical models of real-world
• Constructing technology-enhanced lesson or lesson plan within a mathematics curriculum
• Use of ICT in language arts
• How ICTs improve the teaching/learning of language or how to improve language teaching through intelligent and informed use of technology
• Searching and using Internet resources for language materials and lessons
• Searching literature-based, creative writing, problem-solving
• Internet projects with the option of using interpersonal exchanges, virtual gatherings, peer feedback or mentoring to support student learning
• Constructing technology-enhanced lesson or lesson plan within a language art curriculum
• Use of ICT in social studies
• How ICTs improve the teaching/learning of social studies or how to improve social studies teaching through intelligent and informed use of technology
• Searching and using Internet resources for social studies materials and lessons
• Searching problem-solving, enquiry and creative thinking materials with the option of using interpersonal exchanges, virtual gatherings, peer feedback or mentoring to support student learning.
• Constructing technology-enhanced lesson or lesson plan within a social studies art curriculum
• Web Quests
• Use of ICT in Health and PE
• Use of ICT in chemistry
• ICT and multicultural education
• Integrating technology into the K-12 classrooms
• Reviewing available instructional technologies and models of technology use in the classroom
• Understanding the benefits of incorporating technology into education
• Technology integration – planning and implementing technology use in the classroom
• Classroom management
• Evaluating lesson plans that integrate technology
• Understanding classroom management issues
• Integrating Internet and other resources into the elementary classrooms (search techniques, safety, ethical/legal issues, evaluating websites, teacher and student Internet resources)
• Software evaluation and integration in the classrooms
• Creating a technology-enhanced lesson or a teacher/student project
• Web page development for teachers
• Teaching with educational software and other applications
• Teaching with WebQuests
• Logo
• Science software such as Redshift, Eco Ranger, Dynamic Rain Forest, Thinking Science, etc.
• Use of software that employ simulator to simulate experiments and that can create interactive activities in physics, science, etc.
• Assessment and evaluation (Understanding and evaluating students’ learning in an ICT environment and measuring ICT impact and effectiveness)

7. Use of online communication tools

• Information literacy
• Online learning environment
• Online communication tools – the Website as a pedagogical communications tool
• Internet
• Introduction to telecommunications, primer on the Internet and the World Wide Web
• Useful Internet resources
• Using the Internet tools, search engines, e-mail, etc.
• Dealing with Internet information (safe access and acceptable use policies; copyright issues; evaluating and citing online resources)
• Collaborating online (telecollaboration)
• Joining a collaborative project online
• Online search for telecollaborative projects
• Schools online project updates
• Designing telecollaborative projects (steps in designing and implementing; analyzing a telecollaborative project; creating a telecollaborative project website; publicizing telecollaborative projects
• Project-based learning
• Creating a pilot Email project
• List server simulation
• Creating an electronic mailing list
• Using online experts to enhance student interest and learning

8. Technology management and installation

• Troubleshooting
• Approaches and techniques/tips for troubleshooting (peripherals, networks, backups)
• Operating system configuration
• Hardware and software basics
• Computer maintenance and preventive measure (utilities, viruses)
• Technology resources and repair (Internet resources for troubleshooting)
• Installation of memory chips
• Preventive maintenance and repair strategies
• Report of a troubleshooting experience
• Essentials of networks (LAN)
• Setting up an Intranet
• Setting up, installing and using Linux
• Zipping and unzipping

9. Linking schools and community

• The schools and the community: challenges and opportunities for linking through technology
• What are telecentres
• Setting up telecentres in the schools (needs assessment, designing and setting up, disseminating)