This document discusses the gap between technology trends and the use of technology in schools. It begins by outlining how technology has transformed the way people live, work and play, with billions of internet users worldwide. However, schools have not benefited from technology in the same way. The document then examines schools as ecological systems influenced by factors inside and outside the school. There is a gap between the rapid pace of technological innovation and how schools implement technology, which is an expensive and difficult process with no clear measures of success. Effective technology planning is needed, but many schools lack vision and teacher training to properly integrate technology into learning. The conclusion calls for national policies and a holistic approach to address this gap between technology trends and school technology use.

1. BRIDGING THE GAP:
Technology trends and use of technology in schools
Presented by
Sania and Zoya 

2. Content
• Modern technology and the way we work, live and play
• Modern technology and schools
• Nature of technological innovations and schools as ecological
system
• The gap between the technology trends and use of technology in
schools
• Defining effective teaching
• ICT planning
• Implications and conclusions

3. Modern technology and the way we live, work and
play
• Multiple uses in the digital world (e-learning and e-business)
• 800 million internet users in 2004
• 1.97 billion internet users in 2010 (28.7% world population)
• Improved productivity saving costs in all sectors
• Work practices and business performances
• Product and service innovation
• Social networking and rules

4. Modern technology and schools
• Schools have not benefitted much
• Schools under pressure from the media and policy makers
• Methodological constraints of validity
• Benchmarking is impossible
• Undesirable uses of modern technology by students
• Affect the internal equilibrium of schools

5. Nature of technological innovations and schools as
ecological system
• Elements of ecosystem: users, school system and relationship between the sub-
systems
• Technology as a change agent
• Complex socio-cultural environment of schools
• Dependent on larger ecological systems (Education system and society)
• Technology innovation is not independent or isolated (pedagogy, curriculum,
assessment and school organizations)
• Affects the operation of whole school system

6. The gap between technology trends and use of
technology in schools
• School system is influenced and constrained by many conditions
• No “once and for all” solution to technology implementation
• Expensive and tedious
• Difficult to judge the success of technology implementation
• No quantitative goals and outcomes are specified
• Clueless school leaders

7. Defining Effective Teaching
• No clear indication of effective teaching
• Academic performance is creating inequalities of social and
intellectual capital
• Three problems by Campbell:
Conceptualization of teacher effectiveness
Relationship between school effectiveness and teaching effectiveness
No clear indication of improvement

8. ICT Planning
• Lack of technology planning (vision building, professional development and
evaluation)
• Research and development
• Four characteristics of success planning
Technology plan as a policy document
Available for teachers
A technology plan is never static
Requires support, commitment and collaboration

9. Implications and Conclusions
• Teachers are working with “digital natives”
• Integrating technology in learning systems is complicated
• Involves dynamic interacting factors
• Importance of national policies in promoting technology
• Curriculum development
• It has not yet achieved a systemic or systematic way in schools
• Capacity building of teachers
• Training of principals
• Holistic approach when exploring the gap between technology trends and use of
technology in schools

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