Asia Pacific Networking Feng Chun

Fengchun MIAO

ICT in Education Unit

UNESCO Bangkok

Asia-Pacific Networking Among Teacher Education Institutions

Enabling Teacher’s Successful Use of ICT

The potentials of ICTs for education: UNESCO’s Recognition

As a delivery medium for EFA

As a pedagogy-enabling tool

As a edu. management tool

As a subject for ICT literacy

Within overalleducation systemfor the education priorities

Six Realities of ICT for Teachers in Asia and Pacific Region

1. ICTs equipped in political showrooms, no rooms to show real impact

2. ICTs over-used by students outside schools, but under-used by teachers in classrooms

3. Teachers grown from non-information society, students born as ICT Natives

4. Teachers are lack of ICT competency, teacher educators not better; individual capacity is insufficient, institutional capacity not better

Teacher Educators

Pre-service Teachers

5. Teachers prepared by teacher centered approach, asked to teach with student centered pedagogy

6. Student-centered is labeled as trademark of teacher-centered instruction, not being used as ‘marks’ to trade students’ achievements

Six Realities of ICT for Teachers in Asia and Pacific Region

Challenge: ICTs radicalize pedagogy innovation

ICTs heavily added values to“3Cs” of students: Learning content enriched to multiple sources, communication extended among them and beyond, and individuals become online or face-to-face community

Fulcrum of pedagogy needs to shift from teachers center to student center to gain a new balance and harness the full potential of ICT for learning. Learning

Community

Content Sources

Communication

Opportunity:ICTs enable the pedagogy innovation

Teachers can innovate pedagogy by ICT-enabled “3Cs”: Enrich content by searching engines, facilitate knowledge

understanding by multimedia & computation tools, and manage learning content by LMS.

Join and facilitate communication with students Organize meaningful collaboration in learning community

Learning Community

Content Sources

Communication

Pedagogy innovation of using ICT is a continuum from using ICT to reinforce existing teaching …

ICT for contentIC

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content storage

practice management

knowledge application

knowledge understanding

information presentation

individual fact memorization

project based collaborative

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behavior organization

ICT-supportedgroup discussion

Two pitfalls in pedagogy innovation

Disregard use of ICT for traditional pedagogy: Subject specific contents are indispensable building blocks of project based learning activities

Gap between the espoused pedagogy and the pedagogy-in-use: Self labeling teacher-centered activities as student-centered ones risks aggravating teacher’s pedagogy development

UNESCO Bangkok’s Work: Enabling the successful use of ICT

Standard setterCapacity builderClearing housePromoter of international cooperation

Assisting member states in harnessing the potential of ICT towards achieving quality education for all goal

in the Asia-Pacific region

Overall Goal of ICT in Education Programme UNESCO Bangkok

Focus areas of ICT in education programme of UNESCO Bangkok

6 focus areas: policy, teacher training, teaching and learning, non-formal education, monitoring & measuring, research & knowledge sharing.

2 emerging areas: ICT in Higher Education, and ICT as a Subject Area

Next Generation of Teachers Project: Institutional capacity building for TEIs

Overall goal: Build institutional capacity of in designing and providing training program on ICT-pedagogy integration for pre-service teachers.

Asia-Pacific Networking among teacher education institutions (TEIs)

Asia-Pacific Networking among TEIs

I. Ecological system of teacher training for pre-service teachers

Where we are:Current situation

E-readiness

Where we are going•International standards

•National standards•Local social needs

Curriculum

Leadership

Instructors' Capacity

Dean’s ForumsCurriculum Development Workshops

Capacity-Building Workshops for Instructors

II. Pedagogy before technology: National Workshops on ICT-pedagogy Integration for 12 countries

(a) Stages of ICT usages (b) Pedagogical Usages of ICT

Specializing in the use of ICT

Understanding how and when to use ICT

Learning how to use ICTin subject teaching

Becoming aware of ICT Emerging

Creating innovative & open and free learning environments

Facilitate learning using multi-modal instruction

Enhancing traditional teaching

Applying productivity tools

Applying

Infusing

Transforming


III. Engaging the institutional leaders:Network of Deans: 3 Dean’s Forums covering over 150

deans of TEIs; the 4th – 29-30 June, 2009.


IV. Peers are the long-term trainers 2 Peer Coaching workshops for 60+ teacher educators 3 Regional Innovative Teachers Conferences brought

together over 400 master teachers: ICT for Heritage Education; ICT for ESD; ICT for Multi-cultural Education


V. Tackling the difficulty TEIs can not afford:10 national workshops on essential IT & networking

technology for over 80 master teacher trainers


VI. Transforming the training content: ICT-related curriculum development reform


The Scaling-up Strategies of Next-Gen Project for Institutionalization

UNESCO Country OfficesUNESCO Country Offices

National Commissions for UNESCO

National Commissions for UNESCO

Project Management Team

Project Management Team

Government Driven Initiatives

Government Driven Initiatives

Country Project Team Country Project Team

-Responsible Sector-Country coordinator- Heads of TEIs- Team members

-Responsible Sector-Country coordinator- Heads of TEIs- Team members

UNESCO Initiated Activities

UNESCO Initiated Activities

Regional Events Regional Events

Institution Led Reforms

Institution Led Reforms

Lead InstitutionsLead Institutions

Dean/Head, curriculum developers, and instructorsDean/Head, curriculum developers, and instructors

TEIsTEIs

TEIsTEIs

……

Authorized by the MoEAuthorized by the MoE

TEIsTEIs

TEIsTEIs

……

Activities led by Activities led by

Lead InstitutionsLead InstitutionsNational initiatives led by

Lead InstitutionsNational initiatives led by

Lead Institutions

UNESCO BangkokUNESCO Bangkok Implementing PartnersImplementing Partners

Cisco System, Intel, Microsoft, etc.

Cisco System, Intel, Microsoft, etc.

The main project activities of Next-Gen project for institutionalization

First Regional MeetingFirst Regional Meeting

UNESCO BangkokUNESCO Bangkok

First Curriculum Development Workshop

First Curriculum Development Workshop



Second Curriculum Development Workshop

Second Curriculum Development Workshop

Capacity Building Workshops for Instructors (Pre-service teacher educators) on ICT Skills, ICT-pedagogy integration, and Peer Coaching

Capacity Building Workshops for Instructors (Pre-service teacher educators) on ICT Skills, ICT-pedagogy integration, and Peer Coaching


Technical assistance and monitoring

Technical assistance and monitoring

Co-ordinated by UNESCO Bangkok, hosted by Lead Countries and Lead Institutions, in cooperation with other Partners

Co-ordinated by UNESCO Bangkok, hosted by Lead Countries and Lead Institutions, in cooperation with other Partners

Second Regional MeetingSecond Regional Meeting


Innovative Practices of pre-service teachers in designing and practicing pedagogically proper ICT-based lessons

Innovative Practices of pre-service teachers in designing and practicing pedagogically proper ICT-based lessons

Facilitated by instructors who have received trainings from UNESCO Bangkok Facilitated by instructors who have received trainings from UNESCO Bangkok

Experience sharing

Resources synergy

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