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An Australian survey of teachers’ use of ICT and follow-up actions
By
Greg Black
CEO
Education.au limited
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Australian Context
• ‘Digital Education Revolution’ policies
• $A43bn investment in broadband
• National curriculum initiative
• Skills Australia programme
• Targets for increased participation
• Greater accountability for outcomes
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Reasons for going on-line
85% of teachers use ICT’s regularly in their daily work for:• Research, basic administration, communications• Project work, lesson preparation and to get ideas• To encourage students to use Internet for research• Professional development• Assignments
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Teachers self assessment of their capability
Levels of expertise:• 36% proficient
- confident in use to support learning• 24% emergent
- using ICT to support teaching• 7% foundation
- developing my skills• 7% not applicable• 27% transforming practice
- new ways to engage students within and beyond
classroom
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What barriers do you experience in using online technologies for teaching and learning?
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Other barriers
• ‘Not enough time’ - an almost universal statement
• Lacking confidence
• No incentives
• Lack of institutional leadership and support.
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Implications
Priorities should be:
• More support for educators
• Better infrastructure- computers, broadband and on-demand technical support
• Invest in teaching techniques and strategies and share these
• Unblock sites
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Follow up research and policy proposalsResearch papers completed
by education.au in 2008/09:
• Workforce capability
• Collaborative Teaching and Learning
• Pre-service and beginning teachers & ICT
• E-learning infrastructure strategy
• Site blocking of Web 2.0
• E-portfolios
• Enabling emerging technologies
• 21st century learning spaces
• Embedding digital and media literacies in the curriculum
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Workforce capability• Parlous state of pre-service teacher education
• Most professional learning has had limited impact
• Currently no incentives apart from student engagement
• Professional learning transformation based on:
• openness to critical reflection,
• authentic classroom based demonstration and
• motivation based on student outcomes
• successes with collaborative learning teams.
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Enabling Web 2.0
• E-learning infrastructure supported by identity management and open standards
• Policies and practices at the institutional level that mitigate risk
• Engagement of parents
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21st century learning spaces
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21st Century National Software Infrastructure: Priorities
• Identity and Access control integrating organisation-centric and person-centric
• Collaborative Interoperability
• National Data Interchange (SIF)• Resources and the National Curriculum• ePortfolio Interoperability• Cloud Services Interoperability
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Proposals and New Projects• A web 2.0 mentoring and support network for school leaders
• Virtual schools for pre-service and beginning teachers
• A social networking tool for teachers and students- me.edu.au as the basis for a devolved person-centric e-learning infrastructure
• On-line mentored programmes to re-engage the disenfranchised (like notschool.net)
• Pilot projects and an on-line clearing house to test new tools and services (cloud computing; interoperability; mobile technologies; virtual worlds; open systems)
• An on-line help desk for schools on ICT and learning & teaching