ICT Strategy in the NetherlandsDrs. E.D. Bolhuis

ed.bolhuis@windesheim.nl

Program of the presentationProgram of the presentation

• 4 types of ICT-use in the schools• The strategy behind these schools• One step forward• Conclusions

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1111No (or minimal)No (or minimal)

ICT infrastructureICT infrastructureNo (or minimal)

learning materials

tekstNo united visionabout how ICT can enhance learning

Very different level of expertise about how to use ICT

An example of a lesson on this school

They use a learning methodSometimes enhanced with a powerpoint, YouTube movie.

For example: the introduction of a Picturebook in the primary school: A PictureBook is projected on the board, the teacher read the book aloud and pointed to the pictures. But nothing changed, only the picture is bigger.

2222There is a ICT infrastructureThere is a ICT infrastructure

For everyone?For everyone?

There are learning materialsFor everyone?

He has a vision, but no united visionabout how ICT can enhance learning

Very different level of expertise about how to use ICT

A typical lessonA typical lesson

There are some lessons enhanced with There are some lessons enhanced with ICT, and there are lessons that don’t.ICT, and there are lessons that don’t.

My friend is capturing all the lessons My friend is capturing all the lessons and place them in the digital learning and place them in the digital learning enviroment.enviroment.

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3333There is a good ICT infrastructureThere is a good ICT infrastructure There are learning materials

There is a visionVery different level of expertise

about how to use ICT

An example of a lesson on this school

They use digital learning materials within the whole school

But always in a way that it enhance learning?

4444There is a good ICT infrastructureThere is a good ICT infrastructure There are learning materials

There is a vision There’s expertise in the schools that helps teachers how to enhance learning with ICT

An example of a lesson on this school

A teacher loves to use twitter

He appears to be Napoleon, and in the period of two weeks before the battle of Waterloo, children can Twitter with Napoleon and asked questions about the day, the food, how they sleep, etc.

Rethink EducationRethink Education

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Not the managers, not the administrators,

not the ICT-department, but the teachers learnto rethink education,

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We need them, only to realise

the right conditions

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How to realise the right conditons?

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Find some enthousiastic teachers and give them

space

Find some enthousiastic teachers and give them

space

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Let them dowhere they get

payed for

Let them dowhere they get

payed for

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How to increase from 3 to 4?How to increase from 3 to 4?

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ImaginationImagination

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of eduction

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New pedagogical treatments

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And when there is NO progression?

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Kreijns: using computer in the wrong way, or even not using it at all, is problem behavior. The interventions you made must be combat the behavior

Kreijns: using computer in the wrong way, or even not using it at all, is problem behavior. The interventions you made must be combat the behavior

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1. Analyse the use of ICT in the school2. Analyse problem behavior• Design an intervention• Evaluate the intervention

1. Analyse the use of ICT in the school2. Analyse problem behavior• Design an intervention• Evaluate the intervention

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1. Analyse the use of ICT in the schoolA.Interview 5 early adopters and 5 late majority

1. Analyse the use of ICT in the schoolA.Interview 5 early adopters and 5 late majority

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2. Describe behavior: what happens in the classroomsA.Are there one group, or subgroups?B Describe from many perspectives: teachers, managers, IT-ers

2. Describe behavior: what happens in the classroomsA.Are there one group, or subgroups?B Describe from many perspectives: teachers, managers, IT-ers

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3. Design an interventionA. Suitable for the group and subgroupsB. From many perspectivesC. And do it

3. Design an interventionA. Suitable for the group and subgroupsB. From many perspectivesC. And do it

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4. Evaluate and re-adjust4. Evaluate and re-adjust

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ConclusionConclusion

• Work on vison, leadership, infrastructure & expertise

• Through collaboration in the school

• And when it discontinued:• Tackle the problem behavior in a very serious

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