{"id":191,"date":"2014-06-19T12:45:32","date_gmt":"2014-06-19T11:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jugu.org\/gblog\/?p=191"},"modified":"2014-06-19T12:45:32","modified_gmt":"2014-06-19T11:45:32","slug":"activity-4-5-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jugu.org\/gblog\/2014\/06\/19\/activity-4-5-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Activity 4.5.2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My interest is in development education, such as in sub-Saharan Africa, where penetration of ICT to support education is low. The challenges here are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Low IT skills for teachers<\/li>\n<li>Poor\/expensive internet access<\/li>\n<li>ICT taught as a subject rather than used as a curriculum tool<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These problems require a managed, local ICT solution because the skills and\/or access are not sufficient just to access open tools on the internet.<\/p>\n<p>For a remote primary school in a development environment, I would invest in:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>An internal solution with the external internet used for extra information, not as the prime source. This internal solution would comprise a server equipped with a Learning Management System to organise access to learning materials. These learning materials would include:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>Navigation and skills learning packages to help teachers become competent in operating computing equipment and navigating the LMS.<\/li>\n<li>Pedagogic guides to illustrate how educational software can be used to support teaching and learning. These would be linked to specific areas of the local curriculum.<\/li>\n<li>Educational software to support local curricula. Because of language issues this software may need to be developed or amended specially e.g. by a local tertiary education establishment. The software would include dictionaries and encyclopaedia to allow search and enquiry.<\/li>\n<li>Educational games to allow skills to be developed in an informal way<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>2.\u00a0 It is unlikely to be economically feasible to provide tablets or laptops to all teachers and<br \/>\npupils (constraints of electricity and internet access means such personal machines would<br \/>\nnot be used effectively). I would equip one or more &#8220;teaching rooms&#8221; which subject teachers<br \/>\ncould book to include ICT in their teaching. The equipment would comprise:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Projector\/Interactive whiteboard, connected to the server\/LMS<\/li>\n<li>Individual access equipment. Depending on the local environment (power, security etc) these could be desktops, laptops or tablets.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This equipment would not be useful without support &#8211; both start-up and ongoing. Part of the investment would be in initial training both of support staff and teachers and in ongoing support (maybe regionally) to provide maintenance and guidance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My interest is in development education, such as in sub-Saharan Africa, where penetration of ICT to support education is low. The challenges here are: Low IT skills for teachers Poor\/expensive internet access ICT taught as a subject rather than used as a curriculum tool These problems require a managed, local ICT solution because the skills [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[9,33],"class_list":["post-191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ictinp","tag-development","tag-equipment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jugu.org\/gblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jugu.org\/gblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jugu.org\/gblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jugu.org\/gblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jugu.org\/gblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jugu.org\/gblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":192,"href":"https:\/\/jugu.org\/gblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions\/192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jugu.org\/gblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jugu.org\/gblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jugu.org\/gblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}