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How can grasshoppers change ICT practices?. July 5 th – 7 th 2011, ICT in the Classroom Conference, Johannesburg, South Africa. By Lieve Leroy, VVOB Zambia. Case. You attend a workshop, but upon returning to your own workplace, you fail to implement the lessons learned. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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How can grasshoppers change ICT practices?
By Lieve Leroy, VVOB Zambia
July 5th – 7th 2011, ICT in the Classroom Conference, Johannesburg, South Africa
Case
• You attend a workshop, but upon returning to your own workplace, you fail to implement the lessons learned.
• Your colleague just got his ICDL certificate, but still has a classroom full of chalk and talk.
Ever experienced something like this?
Outcomes
By the end of the session delegates will: • Have reflected on capacity building in ICT, inclusive of
integration in class/work practices.• Have exchanged good ideas and go home with a basket
of tips and tricks.• Have a good understanding of the Grassroots approach
and have reflected on the duplicability of it.
Getting started
• Think of an ICT tool (Web 2.0) which inspired you during the last year.
• What was the trigger that made you start using it?
Speed dating set up
Plenary
More questions
• Have you ever succeeded in motivating a/some colleague(s) to use an ICT tool?
• What was the key to success?
Think
Pair
Share
Our tool box to success
• Let’s make an inventory
Some guidelines
• ICT application in the classroom:
– requires staff development– implies change, which might trigger resistance
• Highly effective ways of staff development are: discussing, coaching, mentoring, observing and developing others are highly effective
• comfort risk danger:– Feasible but challenge– Support (time, materials, coach)– Confidence
Our tool box to success
• Reflect on the guidelines and relate those to our tool box: how effective are our approaches
The reality: Zambia
The reality: Zambia
The reality: Zambia
Grassroots Zambia
“Learn to use & Use to learn“
• Based on Grassroots TU Delft, The Netherlands• Done in Zambia, community schools and
colleges of education
Grassroots
• Staff at all levels can submit a proposal for a small scale initiative to enhance the introduction of ICT, or innovative methods of teaching at school/college (bottom up)
• Expert support/guidance over the duration of the project (technical and educational support)
• Reward for a successful implementation• Dissemination in a good practices seminar and
publication of good practices
Why grassroots?
• Stimulate lecturers, with little or no experience with ICT, to get a feeling for using ICT
• Increase the use of ICT in education in the institute
Why is it successful:• Lecturer is the owner of the idea; feels empowered• Stimulating creativity of lecturers• Enthusiasm and commitment• Stimulates peers; appealing concept• Students are immediately benefiting
Process
Approval of proposals
In Zambia: two rounds
5 thematic groups:•Find, search, collaborate•Audi, visual and video learning•Gadgets and tools•Language and Mathematics•Hands on ICT
“Those who make a
distinction between
education and
entertainment
don't know the
first thing
about either.“
-- Marshall McLuhan
Expert Groups
Agreement Working Together
The role of the mentor in grassroots is:
• Give feedback• Give advice on how to balance responsibilities, set
professional priorities and action plans. • Help to find technical/subject matter inputs and
resources.• Empower participants to take responsibility for their own
project, experience and learning. • Organise meetings with the ‘peer group’. • Create linkages with colleagues from other institutions.
Getting started
• How would the concept of grassroots project be transferable to your situation?
• Discuss your own challenges in the use of ICT in your organisation/class. Come up with a grassroots proposal to solve this situation
• http://www.icto.tudelft.nl/en/ongoing-projects/grassroots/tu-delft-grassroots/
• http://grassrootszambia.webs.com/• http://www.vvobzambia.blogspot.com/ • http://www.slideshare.net/bart.cornille/tab-1-tales-of-the-
grasshoppers
With contributions from presentations by Kristin Smets (VVOB Brussels) and Leonie Meijerink e. a. (VVOB Zambia)
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