Thank you Salanieta and all. For me has been a great pleasure to have the chance to share this week with all of you. For those interested on ICT & Education, I suggest to access www.webinar.org.ar (sorry, but all in Spanish), a webinar on ubiquitous learning (mobile and digital content) that is still open till the end of today. If someone is interested, I can share a pdf file with the main conclusiones of the previous webinar we have organized one year ago on "The 1:1 model (OLPC) as public policy in Education. A regional look" (sorry, but also, only a Spanish version). Raul Bauer (LACRALO) On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 1:05 PM, Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro < salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear All,
For those of you who are in San Jose, it has been great to meet you all. I would like to share some things we can learn from Barbados, see below:
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Yacine Khelladi <yacine@yacine.net> Date: Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 9:51 AM Subject: [CIVIC] Greater use of ICTs in education encouraged (Barbados) To: "Caribbean ICT stakeholders Virtual Community (CIVIC)" < civic@dgroups.org>
Greater use of ICTs in education encouraged http://www.barbadosadvocate.**com/newsitem.asp?more=local&**NewsID=23453<; http://www.barbadosadvocate.com/newsitem.asp?more=local&NewsID=23453>
3/16/2012
Transforming education through technology will require emphasis on learning how to create, how to collaborate and how to communicate in education without neglecting the content.
That is according to one of the directors of Caribbean Online Academy, Dr. Lora Woodwall, who delivered the featured address at the Ministry of Education’s Barbados Technology in Education conference which opened yesterday morning at the Lloyd Erskine Sandiford Centre.
“Information and Communications Technology (ICT) can help to transform education by helping us to create, collaborate and communicate differently and more effectively. However, in order to do this, we need to recognise that a clear vision needs to be communicated, a strategic plan developed and explicated and most importantly, people need to be at the forefront of that change,” said Dr. Woodwall.
She stated that educational leaders, educators and students all have a critical role to play in the transformation of education and technology.
“The question is not whether technology can transform education, but rather are we willing to make the changes that are necessary? Changes in the way we manage education, changes in the way that we teach, changes in the way that our students learn...”
Dr. Woodwall noted that for change to occur in the Caribbean, “We need to inform the powers that be, that it is not our regard, if this is the case, to have a system that is so examination driven but that takes a whole society to say we want a different way of education. That is a huge cultural change and that is going to take awhile to happen but it can happen.”
She said that the other way this is possible is to use technology to achieve the same aim.
“Barbados is highly regarded in the Caribbean and the wider world for its education system even though that has been largely content driven, that does not mean that you should throw out that whole way of looking at things and adopt a completely new way. I think there is room for combination, so that we can make sure that our students still know the critical content but that we have the critical thinking and research skills that they need,” said Dr. Woodwall.
According to her, teachers will also need to work on locating and adapting material to tailor the resources to the needs of Caribbean students.
She added that students need to be taught how to effectively search for information online and how to evaluate the resources that they find.
Dr. Woodwall stressed that educators are key to the integration of ICTs in the education system and any changes must have their involvement and support.
This, she said, would require teachers to have the necessary knowledge and skills and understand the role of technology in teaching and learning.
The conference runs for three days and is free to the public. It includes an exhibition displaying various institutions that work with technology, which many primary school students enjoyed viewing yesterday morning. (AR)
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