Category: WSIS

e-Learning (3) – WSIS 2011

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Speaker: Bart Dewaele, Director General VVOB HQs in Brussels

Teacher training perspective

They training on strategies, planning, curriculum goals etc and then instruments you need to reach those goals and one of those instruments is ICT.

Working in Kenya, Cambodia, Zambia and Vietnam

The TPACK model: an educator who wants to integrate technology he will have to have basic practice: lesson plan based on ict, learning from each other, learning by doing and knowledge input: pedagogy, technology, training

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e-Learning (2) – WSIS 2011

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Speaker: Hans Laugesen, International Secretary and Senior Educational Policy Officer, The Danish National Union of Upper Secondary School Teachers, GL, Denmark

Goals for use of ICT: do we need it as teachers? Yes to train them in new competencies . We want to teach history and maths not just ict. We can teach them to use the technique but it should not be done at cost of time.

Use of ict must not take time away from teaching. Access to ict is limited. Changing curriculum and finding new materials. The way you plan and teach in school . Read More …

e-Learning: Teachers Count (UNESCO) – WSIS 2011

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May 16- 2011: 16:30 – 18:00 hrs- Interactive Facilitation Meeting- C7 – E-Learning: Teachers Count (UNESCO)

Within the framework of Action Line C7 e-learning, this year’s facilitation meeting will focus on the impact of ICTs on teaching and on the role of teachers in applying ICTs in their work. Special consideration will be given to the UNESCO ICT Competency Framework for Teachers (ICT CFT). The implications for governmental policy makers, teachers, and teacher training providers will be discussed, with particular reference to the interaction among the international and national competency standard setters and standards implementers, by probing the following interrelated questions:

  • Are teachers assuming their appropriate roles in enabling effective e-learning?
  • How and to what extent can teachers be groomed to be a qualified e-learning enablers?

Speakers

  • Gonzalez Jose Fernando, Vice Minister of Basic Ministry of the Public Education , Mexico Education
  • Bart Dewaele, Director General VVOB HQs in Brussels
  • Hans Laugesen, International Secretary and Senior Educational Policy Officer, The Danish National Union of Upper Secondary School Teachers, GL, Denmark
  • Fengchun Miao or Mr. Peter Schioler, UNESCO Read More …