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Assoc.Prof.Dr.Supit Karnjanapun
Ten Lessons for ICT and Education in the Developing World
knowledge and information have become the most important
currency for productivity, competitiveness, and increased wealth and prosperity
Quality of Education???
Changed World with Unchanged Classrooms today’s information and knowledge-driven world, a whole new set of skills is required.
New Skills for the Networked World
workforce that understands how to use technology as a tool to increase productivity and creativity.
These skills include “information reasoning,”
reliable sources of information are identified
effectively accessed
understood
contextualized
communicated to colleagues
skills necessary to collaborate
. work in teams,
share information across global networks
interact with others across culturesand languages.
flexible and able to learn quickly
learn how to learn, and quickly acquire new skills.
Those Skills???
not easy to find
challenge to develop
How do nations prepare students for such a world
World Links—A Model for Networked Learning
(www.worldbank.org/world links)
information, technology,
and knowledge.
1.provide developing country with sustainable solutions for mobilizing the necessary technologies, skills, and educational resources 2 prepare students and teachers to enter the Networked World.
collaborative learning
helps ministries of education pilot and learn from this implementation of Networked Learning
World Links is bridging the gap in skills, knowledge, and educational opportunities between industrialized and developing nations
between rich and poor students within developing countries
key failures was that schools were provided with expensive equipment but with little or no support for teachers’ professional development, national ICT-in-education policies, or community involvement
10 lessons
Lesson #1: Computer labs in developing countries taketime and money, but they work
Lesson #2: Technical support cannot be overlooked
Lesson #3: Noncompetitive telecommunications infrastructure, policies, and regulations impede connectivity and sustainability
Lesson #4: Lose the wires
Lesson #5: Get the community involved
Lesson #6: Private-public sector partnerships are essential
Lesson #7: Link ICT and education efforts to broader education reforms These examples of private-public partnerships to equip labs
Lesson #8: Training, training, training
Lesson #9: Technology empowers girls
Lesson #10: Technology motivates students and energizes classrooms
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