A presentation on ICT for Education as a catalyst for innovation.

1. Information and Communication
Technology
An opportune Catalyst for Innovative Teaching and Learning
Chole Richard
A Presentation during Jinja Christian Teachers’ Fellowship
Held at PMM Girls School – Sunday 9th June 2013

2. The 21st Century

3. The 21st Century- Changing Trends
The global village
Growing challenges
A more competitive and individualistic minded society
New emerging trends in lifestyle and value changes
Increasing reliance on technology

4. The 21st Century Challenge:
How can education respond innovatively?
• Engaging in child/learner driven
educational practices.
• Engaging learners in learning for
immediate impact.
• Education beyond the classroom and
school into the community and
addressing immediate community
needs.
• Collaboration, teamwork – sharing
instead of competing.
• Tasking learners to think critically – be
problem solvers.
• Create
• Risk takers.
• Learning with minimum supervision.

5. ICT, The Catalyst

6. The Old and the New Schools

7. Project Based Learning
A Reference Point
• engage student interest and motivation – learner driven.
• Learners address immediate issues affecting community.
• provokes students to encounter (and struggle with) the central
concepts and principles of a discipline.
• communication and presentation skills, organization and time
management skills, research and inquiry skills, self-assessment and
reflection skills, and group participation and leadership skills.
• generally done by groups of students working together toward a
common goal
• Performance is assessed on an individual basis, and takes into
account the quality of the product produced, the depth of content
understanding demonstrated, and the contributions made to the
ongoing process of project realization.
• allows students to reflect upon their own ideas and opinions,
exercise voice and choice

8. Project Based Learning
Illustrated
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMCZvGesRz8

9. Project Based Learning
The Experience at PMM Girls’ School
• Started in 2009 with 20 students.
• Students joined voluntarily for varied reasons
• It empowers students with 21st century skills and
technology to enable them impact targeted
communities.
• The learners decide on an issue and embark on
creating a digital media on it
• They exhibit and share their learning
experiences.

10. Project Based Learning
The Experience at PMM Girls’ School
A Behind the Scenes
A Glimpse at the media
making process
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJ05DzDLYmo
A Voice for Orphans
The Completed media project
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zka-gpdo2gw

11. An account of impact
From Media Creation to Impacting
Beyond Classroom
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAOmKRtCmUY

12. The Power is in Your Hands – A
Musical Media Project
“The Power is in Your Hands”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6jM7OZfy28

13. Opportunities for Global Engagement

14. Opportunities for Global Engagement
Lead Educators Workshop,
New Delhi, 2011

15. A few tips for peers
• Learn to appreciate, understand and love
students for what they really are.
• Identify needs in your community and school
and turn them into opportunities.
• Realize your potentials and your passion and use
it to impact beyond classroom and school.
• Document the things you do and share.
• Embrace ICT for Education and Development.
• Don’t look at the money bit first.

16. Opportunities to look forward to in
2014

17. Words for thought:
Education makes people…
easy to lead but difficult to drive,
easy to govern but impossible to enslave.
Peter Brougham

18. For inspiration
Wangari Mathaai

19. Thank you!!
Chole Richard
cholerichard@yahoo.com
Mobile: +256782347541; Skype: chole.richard
Twitter: @Cholerichard