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Faye Bascom, ICT Coordinator, INSPIRE CIO, Department of Education
COLLEGE OF THE BAHAMAS
“Integrating Technology” In Teaching and Learning”
March 20, 2013
Ministry of Education, Science & Technology’s
IDB INSPIRE PROJECT
Investing iN Students & Programmes for the Innovative Reform of Education
Assistive Technology Display
Assistive Technology 2
Claims about ICTSensationalism
ICT improves students’ outcomes!
Sensationalism
ICT improves students’ outcomes!
Complacent
ICT is only one element in what must be a coordinated
approach for improving curriculum, pedagogy, assessment, teacher
development, etc.
Complacent
ICT is only one element in what must be a coordinated
approach for improving curriculum, pedagogy, assessment, teacher
development, etc.
Radicalism
ICT enables a new scenarios for
teaching and learning
Radicalism
ICT enables a new scenarios for
teaching and learning
Fundamentalism
The proliferation of ICT in society calls for a new
curriculum
Fundamentalism
The proliferation of ICT in society calls for a new
curriculum
Equanimity
ICT are a set of artifacts that serve as
tools for learning.
Equanimity
ICT are a set of artifacts that serve as
tools for learning.
1700: correspondence 1800: distance education 1900: online learning
2000: open and distance learning (ODL)
2000: borderless education1900: virtual campus
Key Role of Teachers
... the key
Teachers! Teachers!Teachers!
Teachers! Teachers!
Teachers!
... and how and what they teach
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Visioning“To make accessible
to the students of The Bahamas the
technology required to make them
globally competitive”
Ensure effective management of education
Improve teaching and learning with
ICT
Provide ICT career oppor-
tunities for students
Synthesis of Expected Outcomes
Training Pedagogical Support
• Infuse ICT in initial teacher training curriculum• Develop a certification for initial teacher training.• Implement distance education courses for family Islands• Progressively make courses available in the professional
development strategies of DOE
ICT in the Curriculum• Primary education
– Focus on developing basic ICT skills (keyboarding, drawing, reinforcement software, etc.)
• Junior– Grade 7: Focus on ICT literacy (based on a certification)– Grade 8, 9: Subject integration– The goal at the end of Junior School -- international certification of
ICT skills (Example: MS Digital Literacy).• Senior
– Subject integration (Core Areas: Science, Maths and Language)– Use of ICT in TVET (CAD, Accounting, Web)– Define new vocational areas:
• System administrator (Unix, Internet, DBA, Networks)• Support technician (Electronics, low level OS, wide range of
applications)• Linked to the BTVI offer
Infrastructure ScenariosPre-Schools Laptop and Projector in the Classroom
Primary-Schools Laptop, Projector, Interactive Whiteboard in the Class-rooms 2-4 Computers in a resource room, Administration Internet
Junior-Schools 4-6 Computers, Laptop, Projector, Interactive Whiteboard in Subject Labs and Administration 15-20 Computers in Lab Internet
Senior Schools 4-6 Computers, Laptop, Projector, Interactive Whiteboard in Subject Labs and Administration 20-30 Computers in Lab Internet
Technical Support• Make available a network of technicians that can
ensure at least an 80% of availability of the infrastructure.
• Make available a help desk.• Design and implement a strategy of infrastructure
replacement and repositioning.
• Build Tech Teams across The Bahamas• Employ students from BTVI, COB or other
tertiary institute as technicians for schools (part of credit)Share technicians that are attending family Islands (BTC, Cable
Bahamas)
School Requirement
• Visionaries• School level ICT Plan• Take advantage of training and other
opportunities• Analyze your environment …………… BE READY!
