The document discusses planning for meaningful educational change through the use of technology. It notes that the planning process is important, and that a successful plan involves defined educational outcomes and a pathway to achieve them, rather than just a list of purchases. Studies also show that changing attitudes through planning can be more impactful than the technologies alone. Good plans are developed through consensus and collaboration with the whole community. The document also outlines stages of integrating technology from familiarization to evolution, and possible ways to assess the impact of technology integration such as observations, surveys, monitoring plans, and discussions.
1. Where we sit as a School Virgilio C. Boado, MA Ed. M Principal II Cuenca National High School
2. Developing an initiative and innovation to facilitate meaningful, evidence based change towards desirable outcomes.
3. Studies show that: The planning process is vitally important, the plan that results from this process is only one of the outcomes. A successful plan includes a defined set of educational outcomes and a proposed pathway to try to get there. A successful plan is not a shopping list or a budget, it involves much more than buying things.
4. Studies show that: Change in attitudes and thinking from planning can be more important than the ICTs themselves. Good plans are developed by consensus and collaboration. Good plans involve the whole community and are owned by them. Good plans stress application across the whole curriculum. Successful planners make informed decisions based on examining best practice elsewhere.
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8. ■ Familiarisation Teachers are becoming increasingly aware of ICT, and may have attended some training, but often lack confidence and therefore reluctant to use it in their classroom teaching.
9. ■ Utilisation Teachers are increasingly aware of the benefits of technology, and begin to incorporate it into teaching, often replacing former activities with ICT alternatives. This begins to have a beneficial effect on teaching and learning.
10. ■ Integration Teachers are becoming increasingly familiar with appropriate use of ICT, and can integrate it into many aspects of their ongoing teaching. Teaching and learning are becoming significantly enhanced.
11. ■ Reorientation The potential of ICT is now exploited to enable approaches which could not easily be replicated by traditional means. Teaching and learning begin to be significantly transformed.
12. ■ Evolution The creative possibilities of ICT are being fully explored. ICT is developed in response to learners’ needs. Teaching and learning are significantly transformed.
13. Different Possible Ways to Assess Impact In-class observations Teacher/ student surveys Monitoring of planning Evidence of student achievement and learning Informal and formal discussions with staff/ students.