The document discusses educational technology in the Asia Pacific region. The goal is to support schools' development and use of information and communication technologies (ICT) for teaching, learning, and administration. Key strategies include using ICT to improve learning outcomes and school operations, and developing community partnerships to enhance access to learning through technology. Focus areas are increasing school access to ICT and providing teacher professional development on using technology. Initiatives include an online resource center and a computer recycling scheme.

1. Educational
Technology in the
Asia Pacific
Region

2. • Goal
- government with the education and technology sectors,
community group, and industry envisions to support to the
development of the capability of school to use information and
communication technologies in teaching-and-learning and in
administration
• Strategy
- it foresees schools to be:
 improving learning outcomes for students using ICT to support
the curriculum
Using ICT to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of
educational administration.
Developing partnership with communities to enhance access to
learning through ICT

3. • Focus areas
- Infrastructures for increasing schools’ access to ITCs to
enhance education
- Professional development so that school managers and
teachers can their capacity to use ITC
• Initiatives
- An On-line Resource Centre with a centrally managed
website for the delivery of multimedia resources to school
- A computer recycling scheme
- A planning and implementation guide for school
- ICT professional development school/clusters

4. • In the Adelaide Declaration on National Goals for
schools, information technology is one of the national
goals/learning areas students should achieve. Student
should be confident creative and productive users of new
technologies, particularly ICTs, and understanding the
impact of these technologies on society.
The plans for achieving the national goals for IT are left to
individual states and territories with the Educational Network
Australia (EdNA) as the coordinating and advisory body.
Across the states and territories, the common features to
planning, funding and implementation are
 Fast local and wide area networking linking schools across
the state and territory.
 Substantial number of computers in the school, ensuring
adequate access

5. Continuing teacher training in the use of technology for
instruction
Technical support to each school
Sufficient hardware and software
Digital library resources
Technology demonstration as models for schools

6. • Technology plays many roles in a Smart School from
facilitating teaching-and-learning activities to assisting
with school management. Fully equipping a school
includes:
Classroom with multimedia, presentation facilitates, e
mail, groupware for collaborative work
Library media center with database for multimedia
courseware and network access to the internet
Computer laboratory for teaching, readily accessible
multimedia and audio-visual equipment
Multimedia development center with tools for creating
multimedia materials. Computer studies as a subject
Studio/theatrette with control room for centralized audio-
visual equipment, teleconferencing studio, audio room,
video and laser disc video room