Presentation at Eden- Valencia 2010

1. ICT IN EDUCATION: HOW CAN
TEACHERS OVERCOME THIS
CHALLENGE?
Maria Paulina de Assis
Institute of Education, University of London, UK
Renata Aquino Ribeiro, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de
São Paulo, Brasil

2. AGENDA
• ICT in Education
• Formal and Informal Education
• Dimensions of ICT in Education
• Challenges
• How to overcome the challenges
• Knowledge
• Engagement
• Practice

3. ICT IN EDUCATION
• To teach
• To learn
• To interact
• To enhance learning
• To co-construct
knowledge

4. DIMENSIONS OF ICT IN FORMAL
EDUCATION
PEDAGOGICAL
TECHNICAL
ORGANIZATIONAL SOCIO CULTURAL

5. FORMAL AND INFORMAL EDUCATION
• Formal Informal learning tools and techniques
– Content delivery can be combined with a formal
– Interaction approach
– Co-construction of knowledge People are being educated for their
professional lives »
» they will continue with their
• Informal education on a lifelong learning
– Corporate basis.
– Lifelong learning The boundaries between these two
– Social, cultural learning fields can be blurred
• Open Resources: formal or
informal?
http://openlearn.open.ac.uk
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/home/home/index.htm
http://www.oercommons.org

6. FORMAL AND INFORMAL EDUCATION:
a continuum
Formal Corporate Communities

7. CHALLENGES FOR EDUCATORS
• terminology
• technological development
• range of new tools
• teachers’ lack of confidence in using new
technology
• technologies are not created for educational
purposes

8. HOW TO OVERCOME THE
CHALLENGES?
• Knowledge
• Engagement
• Practice

9. KNOWLEDGE
• Information – what is available? What do I
need? What is appropriate?
• ICT Literacy – how to deal with it?
• Theories of learning – use them?

10. ENGAGEMENT
• ... to know what to require from the technical
staff.
• ... changes in the management of classroom
activities, pedagogical plans, and policies, head
staff
• ... in the analysis, design, development,
implementation and evaluation of the project of
ICT for Education.
• Communication among the people involved in
the project with different responsibilities is
essential.

11. PRACTICE
• Sharing good practices
• Collaboration
• Teacher as action-researcher

12. CONTACT
paulina.assis@uol.com.br