ICT in schools

Wim de Boer, SLO

Program

• ICT: why?

• ICT: what?

• ICT examples: VLE and smartboard

• ICT and Curriculum?

Why ICT in our education?

• it’s there (it’s a goal)

• it promisses authentic, personalised and more social learning

Onderwijsraad, 2008

What: ICT?

ICT use in educationAll schools have computersAll schools have internet

Students spend- prim.ed: 3 hours- sec. ed: 6 hoursper week behind the computer for school related tasks

Teachers spend:- prim.ed : 6-7 hours- sec. ed.: 4 hours- voc. ed.: 8 hours per week for teaching related tasks with the computer

Kennisnet, 2007, 2008EU, 2006

12% of teachers use the computer in > 50% of their teaching

10% never uses the computer

ICT is (mostly) used for

• Word processing• information on the

Internet• use of virtual learning

environments (sec ed) • training programs

(prim ed)

Kennisnet, 2007, 2008

teachers want...

more digital learning resources...

Kennisnet found...

676038 resources

for 36 subjects (sec ed)

textbooks (from publishers)

non-textbook related

selfmade

resourses (from publishers)

non-textbook related

selfmade

digital resources

paper-based resources

primed

seced

SLO, 2009

Some examples

Example 1: Smartboards

• at last: internet in the classroom for the teacher...

• >50% of prim. ed. school have them

Example 2:Virtual learning environments

• collection of internet teaching tools

• > 70% of the sec. ed. schools have one

• 42% of teachers use it• 20% of the learning

resources are in it• use varies

VLEs, Smartboards

• ICT compentent teachers use it more, more diverse and are satisfied about it

• school policy, support and environments have an influence

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ICT and Curriculum?

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Learning activities

VLE

smartboard

Tools & content that...

• have an advantage• supports selection

of materials• supports planning• supports evaluation• are more

integrated

Our tasks?

• curriculum frameworks

• curriculum planning tools (EPS)

• best practices

• teacher training

Questions?

More information: w.deboer@slo.nl