Obstacles in IT Education Practices
In creating or engaging IT to education there are possible obstacles that would be encountered. You cant just set up those things without considering other matters that could cause problems and issues. For instance you would an ICT strategic plan for the educational sector. In some countries ICT for education are isolated from the national ICT policy. To develop a comprehensive ICT strategic plan for the education sector while aligning it with the national ICT policy they consider this following guidelines;
- Identify true cost components necessary to support investment in ICT for education, and the true costs of running effective ICT in education systems.
- Consider public–private partnerships for covering associated costs while providing expertise.
- The teacher education curriculum should be relevant in terms of country context and should be designed for improving productivity, preparing teaching materials, and integrating technology into teaching.
- ICT teacher training should be hands-on.
- Professional development for school leaders should include skills development to take on
technology leadership tasks in the school, pedagogical transformation, as well as the development of a school ICT culture. In essence, they should be trained to become school technology leaders.
- A pro-equity approach should be employed in conducting M&E activities while concentrating on measures of student and teacher learning.
ICT for education is often associated with achieving technology literacy rather than information literacy. Informatics, or computer education, is usually the focus in defining ICT for education, which makes one think of ICT in education as a curricular subject rather than an approach to enhanced educational processes.integration of technology into the learning environment at any level of education, the role of the teacher is often questioned. For instance, teachers commonly mistake courseware or educational software as a replacement for pedagogy. There four obstacles in distance education; time requirement, time taken for research, training requirements and developing effective technology skill.
Base to their idea you could say that they really studied the national ICT policy, that they are basing their plans on it and finalizing it with correct infrastructure and would deliberate an effective strategy. Their are problems and issues that would be encountered before claiming the fulfillment of success. Obstacles are simple ways that would help us to achieve a better and effective plans.
- Identify true cost components necessary to support investment in ICT for education, and the true costs of running effective ICT in education systems.
- Consider public–private partnerships for covering associated costs while providing expertise.
- The teacher education curriculum should be relevant in terms of country context and should be designed for improving productivity, preparing teaching materials, and integrating technology into teaching.
- ICT teacher training should be hands-on.
- Professional development for school leaders should include skills development to take on
technology leadership tasks in the school, pedagogical transformation, as well as the development of a school ICT culture. In essence, they should be trained to become school technology leaders.
- A pro-equity approach should be employed in conducting M&E activities while concentrating on measures of student and teacher learning.
ICT for education is often associated with achieving technology literacy rather than information literacy. Informatics, or computer education, is usually the focus in defining ICT for education, which makes one think of ICT in education as a curricular subject rather than an approach to enhanced educational processes.integration of technology into the learning environment at any level of education, the role of the teacher is often questioned. For instance, teachers commonly mistake courseware or educational software as a replacement for pedagogy. There four obstacles in distance education; time requirement, time taken for research, training requirements and developing effective technology skill.
Base to their idea you could say that they really studied the national ICT policy, that they are basing their plans on it and finalizing it with correct infrastructure and would deliberate an effective strategy. Their are problems and issues that would be encountered before claiming the fulfillment of success. Obstacles are simple ways that would help us to achieve a better and effective plans.
ICT Policies
In New Zealand their purpose in doing the ICT policies is to let their people now more about modern world interaction. They have stated their that New Zealand government's vision for the country's information society is wide in breadth, covering many different areas of society. They will not also limit their information on government, research and others. Though they want to become a world leader in information technology and compare themselves to United States, Canada, and Australia, but still haven't defined world leader in IT. The overarching vision of electronic government in New Zealand is to allow the easy flow of information within and between government organizations, and between government and people, and both those who use the Internet and those who don't. MoRST is New Zealand Government Department which develops research and innovation policies and manages the publicly funded part of the RS&T system on behalf of the Government. MoRST works at the high level of policies, strategies and statistics. It also contracts other agencies such as the Foundation for Research, Science and Technology to manage the actual funding of research and innovation projects. They have MoRST (MINISTRY OF RESEARCH, SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY) to have an easy access on search towards many agencies. They also have strategies for MoRST. The strategies they implemented are effective. They also have foundation for research, science and technology (FRST). --- http://www1.american.edu/initeb/sf9412a/national.htm ---
In Austrilia they are currently a great deal of gloom and doom about the ICT sector. Some of it is linked, validly, to the global financial crisis and the traditional place of ICT spending in business priorities. But there is also a view that governments in Australia do not understand the sector and fail to give any strategic policy in leadership and some think the industry itself is inwards looking, too conservative and poorly led. Economic climate, apparently falling disproportionately on the ICT sector this is the legitimate reason for firms to be a little distracted, fear and loathing about the impact of Gershon Report on how Australian Government agencies manage ICT projects and budgets and opportunities identified for ICT in the Review of the National Innovation System had vanished. Their Government had proposed that National Broadband Network does not appear to offer much for high-end users, for example researchers, audiovisual producers, e-health specialists; and a government discussion paper on future directions for the digital economy excluded key issues and offered little evidence of new thinking. ICT is strongly focused on the government as a customer. The upside of this is government's demanding nature for continually solving new problems, driving innovation. The downside is an emphasis on marketing and sales to the exclusion of most other issues. They also have 10 ideas for taking the ICT sector ahead. Though their are ideas are convincing it still takes more action to improve their fall and to stabilize their it community.
--- http://www.zdnet.com.au/10-ideas-for-australian-ict-policy-339295631.htm ---
In Malaysia they plan to improve government operations in terms of its internal process and delivery of services to the public and to business. A generic set of tools was developed such as document management, messaging system, electronic meeting and decision tracking, which could assist the functioning of core process, thus facilitating day-to-day operations and management of government offices. Pilot project implemented in 90 school. Schools were equipped with state-of-the-art
multimedia/computing equipment and provided with comprehensive teaching-learning
materials for four subjects, namely, Malaysian language, English, science, and
mathematics. It was targeted to be issued to two million selected users by the end of this year. The card will include data on identity card,
driving license, immigration entry/exit record, and health information.
--- http://www.obi.giti.waseda.ac.jp/ITU/2001/Malaysia.pdf ---
In Singapore enable to share our experience in deploying ICT for the public, private and people sectors," said Dr Lee. "We are very happy to collaborate with ITU to help developing countries catalyse their ICT developments to bridge the Digital Divide". He added that Singapore, with 25 years of experience in developing ICT, is fully aware of the benefits it can bring to social and economic development. "The e-Government Leadership Centre provides a collaborative learning experience. Participants would have the opportunity to study and analyse the Singapore model and to derive relevant strategies for their own country's ICT development. They are spearheading this initiative as it realises that ICT development in this fast-changing digital age can pose a formidable challenge for developing states. While the proposed learning model will be based on Singapore's own Infocomm experience - the issues, the challenges and the successes, the intention is not to promote a single model of ICT development. Rather, the purpose would be to help participants better appreciate the complexities and challenges all countries face in drawing up their own ICT masterplan.
--- http://www.ida.gov.sg/News%20and%20Events/20061121170114.aspx?getPagetype=20 ---
In Hong Kong's aims to harness the power of ICT to turn schools into dynamic and innovative learning institutions, where students can become more motivated, inquisitive, creative and independent lifelong learners. The strategy of a teacher enablement, focus on curriculum and software, hardware provision and the extension of infrastructure. Teachers will be trained at four different levels to become effective facilitators, guiding the students to play a more active role in learning. The objective is for 75 per cent of teachers to feel comfortable with ICT and for 25 per cent to be competent ICT users who have undergone in-depth training by the 2002/03 school year.
--- http://www.unescobkk.org/education/ict/themes/policy/regional-country-overviews/hong-kong/ ---
In Austrilia they are currently a great deal of gloom and doom about the ICT sector. Some of it is linked, validly, to the global financial crisis and the traditional place of ICT spending in business priorities. But there is also a view that governments in Australia do not understand the sector and fail to give any strategic policy in leadership and some think the industry itself is inwards looking, too conservative and poorly led. Economic climate, apparently falling disproportionately on the ICT sector this is the legitimate reason for firms to be a little distracted, fear and loathing about the impact of Gershon Report on how Australian Government agencies manage ICT projects and budgets and opportunities identified for ICT in the Review of the National Innovation System had vanished. Their Government had proposed that National Broadband Network does not appear to offer much for high-end users, for example researchers, audiovisual producers, e-health specialists; and a government discussion paper on future directions for the digital economy excluded key issues and offered little evidence of new thinking. ICT is strongly focused on the government as a customer. The upside of this is government's demanding nature for continually solving new problems, driving innovation. The downside is an emphasis on marketing and sales to the exclusion of most other issues. They also have 10 ideas for taking the ICT sector ahead. Though their are ideas are convincing it still takes more action to improve their fall and to stabilize their it community.
--- http://www.zdnet.com.au/10-ideas-for-australian-ict-policy-339295631.htm ---
In Malaysia they plan to improve government operations in terms of its internal process and delivery of services to the public and to business. A generic set of tools was developed such as document management, messaging system, electronic meeting and decision tracking, which could assist the functioning of core process, thus facilitating day-to-day operations and management of government offices. Pilot project implemented in 90 school. Schools were equipped with state-of-the-art
multimedia/computing equipment and provided with comprehensive teaching-learning
materials for four subjects, namely, Malaysian language, English, science, and
mathematics. It was targeted to be issued to two million selected users by the end of this year. The card will include data on identity card,
driving license, immigration entry/exit record, and health information.
--- http://www.obi.giti.waseda.ac.jp/ITU/2001/Malaysia.pdf ---
In Singapore enable to share our experience in deploying ICT for the public, private and people sectors," said Dr Lee. "We are very happy to collaborate with ITU to help developing countries catalyse their ICT developments to bridge the Digital Divide". He added that Singapore, with 25 years of experience in developing ICT, is fully aware of the benefits it can bring to social and economic development. "The e-Government Leadership Centre provides a collaborative learning experience. Participants would have the opportunity to study and analyse the Singapore model and to derive relevant strategies for their own country's ICT development. They are spearheading this initiative as it realises that ICT development in this fast-changing digital age can pose a formidable challenge for developing states. While the proposed learning model will be based on Singapore's own Infocomm experience - the issues, the challenges and the successes, the intention is not to promote a single model of ICT development. Rather, the purpose would be to help participants better appreciate the complexities and challenges all countries face in drawing up their own ICT masterplan.
--- http://www.ida.gov.sg/News%20and%20Events/20061121170114.aspx?getPagetype=20 ---
In Hong Kong's aims to harness the power of ICT to turn schools into dynamic and innovative learning institutions, where students can become more motivated, inquisitive, creative and independent lifelong learners. The strategy of a teacher enablement, focus on curriculum and software, hardware provision and the extension of infrastructure. Teachers will be trained at four different levels to become effective facilitators, guiding the students to play a more active role in learning. The objective is for 75 per cent of teachers to feel comfortable with ICT and for 25 per cent to be competent ICT users who have undergone in-depth training by the 2002/03 school year.
--- http://www.unescobkk.org/education/ict/themes/policy/regional-country-overviews/hong-kong/ ---
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