ICT Skills for Teachers

8 Years in ICT Advisory

What are we going to talk about

My organization My job as an advisor Organizations that have a say on ICT training: UNESCO

INTEF CPR Some interesting authors on ICT skills The future

Previous knowledgeNew buzzwords: BYOD:

Bring Your Own Device Repositories MOOC:

Massive Open Online Courses Raspberries Connected learning PLE

Personal Learning Environment

PLE

PLE: Personal Learning Environment: systems that help learners take control of their own learning, i.e. Moodle, iGoogle with support for managing contents and process, and for communicating

Fact

It is no longer acceptable for educators to be technology illiterate.

Laura Turner (2005)

The Educational System in Spain

Pre Primary (3)

Primary (6-12)

Compulsive Secondary Education (12-16)

Baccalaureate (16-18)

Vocational Studies (Middle and Higher)

The Region of Murcia

Area(2.2% of Spain; Ranked 9th)

• Total 11,313 km2 (4,368 sq mi)

Population (2008)

• Total 1,470,069

• Density 130/km2 (340/sq mi)

• Pop. rank 10th

• Percent 3.0% of Spain

Main Cities in the Area

Map of Shame

CPR Region de Murcia

- in service teacher training organized in our offer of courses and the tailor made courses that schools decide for themselves

- innovation projects

- advisory

- resources: library, ICT resources, others

Some of the Things We Do

electronic file: 100 hours of training every 6 years: salary rise, sexenios.

e training with a moodle based platform.

catalogue of courses for puestos docentes, teaching positions

Development of courses

- design and call

- publicize, in meetings and on the web

- inscription, list of admitted participants (provisional and definitive)

- initial survey, in progress survey, final survey

- report, objectives, contents, others, trainer

- provisional and final records / certificates

attendance is controlled, typical duration 20-30 hours

Some figures

Nearly 1000 activities this year, run by 47 people

24000 participants

1000 trainers

Conception of the Digital Skill

The digital competence implies the safe and critical use of ICT for work, leisure and communication, relying on basic ICT skills: use of computers to retrieve, evaluate, store, produce, present and exchange information and to communicate and participate in collaborative networks through the Internet.(European Parliament and the Council, 2006).

UNESCO Toolkit

INTEF

National Institute of Educational Technologies and Teacher Training

- Teacher training

- Curricular material

- ICT training programme

- Repository and Social networking

Common Framework for the Digital Competence

ICT Skills according to INTEF

Digital Skills of teachers in the 21st century

Instrumental Skills

Teaching and Researching Skills

Organizational and Communicative Skills

Authoring and Searching Skills

Attitudes

Open and critical attitude towards ICT and Information Society

Predisposal towards lifelong learning and permanent updating

Careful approach towards the use of ICT

Instrumental Skills

- Basic knowledge of computer systems and networks

- Knowledge of PC, OS, storage units, peripherals, basic maintenance

- Office: word processors, spreadsheets, database

- Digital Image, scanners, cameras, digital video, screencaptures

- Management of educational technology: OHP, video, TV, IWB, videoconferencing, mobile

- Creation and management of LMS

- Educational use of web 2.0

Teaching Skills

- Ability to adapt oneself to new formats of learning and teaching both as a user and as a creator

- Integration of ICT resources as an instrument and as a content in teaching plans and curricula

- Implementation in the classroom of new didactic strategies making good use of ICT: individualization of learning, complex problems solving, practicals, selflearning, guided research, PBL

- Objective evaluation of ICT resources

- Selection of ICT resources, design of contextualized formative interventions

- Use of ICT tools for students assessment

- Capacity to simplify technological and procedural aspects so that students focus on contents

- Use of technologies for tutoring and counsellance

- Skills to perform an individualized follow up of each student

Researching Skills

- Skill for innovation and permanent updating from the pedagogical use of ICT

- Ability to disseminate and communicate research processes through technological formats

- Capacity to develop reasearch work through networking with other schools and peers

Organizational, Communicative, Social Skills

Organizational skills- calendar

- RSS

- videoconferencing, chat

- mindmapping

Communicative and social interactive skills- e mail

- social networks and blogging

- use of forums

- distance collaborative projects

- interaction with students through technological tools (tasks, news …)

- workshops, seminars on line (webinars)

Information Skills

- web surfing

- markers

- search engines

- personalized searchengines

- reliable information discrimination

- Creative Commons licences

- use of net found materials

- user security management passwords, users, privacy

Authoring Skills

- web, blogs, wikis, digital portfolios

- multimedia presentations

- finding images, audio, video with the appropriote licence

- text or dictionary collaborative thry the net

- in multidisciplinary teams, crete evaluate integrate multimedia materials

- publish and share on the networking

- PLE: Personal Learning Environment

- PLN: Personal Learning Network

INTEF Online Courses

InitiationTraining in basic skills

• Linux, Initiation to computers

Training in didactic use of ICT

• Web 2.0

• Malted, Geogebra, Descartes

• ICT for specific subjects

In DepthTraining for advanced competences

• Agrega, E twinning, Gimp, Draw, JClic

Teachers already training in didactic use of ICT

• Methodology for primary, Advanced use of programmes, ICT advanced for certain subjects

Strengths and Weaknesses of INTEF

Strengths: emphasis on online training, documentation, accountability

Weaknesses: training is determined by trainers, choice of programmes like MALTED outdated, lack of collaboration from regional governments

Main Strengths

Internet en el Aula, a network of teachers through Ning, very agile, very participative, lots of webinars, repository of good practice

Agrega

Repository of

Digital

Learning

Objects

CPR and the planning of ICT courses

is determined by three factors:

- the needs detection analysis

- the opinion of the ruling bodies of the Department of Education

- the opinion of the advisors

Another strand:

- tailor made courses

The catalogue

The starting point is the

- catalogue of training activities

- the definition of

– teaching positions (Primary, Maths, tutors, headmasters ...)

– professional competences (ICT,

European Programmes ...)

The Annual Plan

Courses for the ICT skill

270 courses this school year: the lion's share

- Online courses: Moodle and E-XXI

- Office, eXeLearning, Google

- IWB

- Some Innovation: Raspberries, Scratch

Strengths and weaknesses of our model

- thanks to tailor made courses we can accommodate very easily the needs of teachers in the same year. A weakness at the same time since teachers follow trends very easily: lots of IWB, little e-learning platform

- Our weaknesses: bureaucratic dinosaur, but at the same time anarchic, no vision for the future, dependence of the department, outdated equipment, change from windows XP to ???, lack of tested materials with E XXI (BYOD)

How can we change things over?

It's difficult to say.

A state run organism with so many stakeholders is difficult to change.

The resistance of organizations to change.

20 Technology Skills: Laura Turner

20 Technology Skills

Word Processing Skills

Spreadsheets Skills

Database Skills

Electronic Presentation Skills

Web Navigation Skills

20 Technology Skills

Web Site Design Skills

E-Mail Management Skills

Digital Cameras

Computer Network Knowledge Applicable to your School System

File Management & Windows Explorer Skills

20 Technology Skills

Downloading Software From the Web (Knowledge including eBooks)

Installing Computer Software onto a Computer System

WebCT or Blackboard Teaching Skills (Moodle)

Videoconferencing skills

Computer-Related Storage Devices (Knowledge: disks, CDs, USB drives, zip disks, DVDs, etc.)

20 Technology Skills

Scanner Knowledge

Knowledge of PDAs

Deep Web Knowledge

Educational Copyright Knowledge

Computer Security Knowledge

The Future is Here to Stay

Some Things I'd Like to See

Scratch and Programming for Children

Progress in BYOD

M Learning

But what I'd really like to see is ..

- Reliable infraestructure

Good materials

Inspiring teachers

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