ICT IN EDUCATION: HOW CAN

TEACHERS OVERCOME THIS

CHALLENGE?CHALLENGE?

Maria Paulina de Assis

Institute of Education, University of London, UK

Renata Aquino Ribeiro, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, Brasil

AGENDA

• ICT in Education

• Formal and Informal Education

• Dimensions of ICT in Education

• Challenges• Challenges

• How to overcome the challenges

• Knowledge

• Engagement

• Practice

ICT IN EDUCATION

• To teach

• To learn

• To interact

• To enhance learning• To enhance learning

• To co-construct

knowledge

DIMENSIONS OF ICT IN FORMAL

EDUCATION

PEDAGOGICALPEDAGOGICAL

ORGANIZATIONAL

TECHNICAL

SOCIO CULTURAL

FORMAL AND INFORMAL EDUCATION

• Formal

– Content delivery

– Interaction

– Co-construction of knowledge

• Informal

– Corporate

Informal learning tools and techniques can be combined with a formal approach

People are being educated for their professional lives »

» they will continue with their education on a lifelong learning basis.– Corporate

– Lifelong learning

– Social, cultural learning

• Open Resources: formal orinformal?

http://openlearn.open.ac.uk

http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/home/home/index.htm

http://www.oercommons.org

basis.

The boundaries between these two fields can be blurred

FORMAL AND INFORMAL EDUCATION:

a continuum

Formal Corporate Communities

CHALLENGES FOR EDUCATORS

• terminology

• technological development

• range of new tools

• teachers’ lack of confidence in using new • teachers’ lack of confidence in using new

technology

• technologies are not created for educational

purposes

HOW TO OVERCOME THE

CHALLENGES?

• Knowledge

• Engagement

• Practice

KNOWLEDGE

• Information – what is available? What do I

need? What is appropriate?

• ICT Literacy – how to deal with it?

• Theories of learning – use them?• Theories of learning – use them?

ENGAGEMENT

• ... to know what to require from the technical staff.

• ... changes in the management of classroom activities, pedagogical plans, and policies, head staffstaff

• ... in the analysis, design, development, implementation and evaluation of the project of ICT for Education.

• Communication among the people involved in the project with different responsibilities is essential.

PRACTICE

• Sharing good practices

• Collaboration

• Teacher as action-researcher

CONTACT

paulina.assis@uol.com.br