ICT Support for Teacher Education Programs

1. ICT Support for Teacher Education Programs US/Indonesia Teacher Education Consortium (ISINTEC) Jakarta, Indonesia July 31, 2007 Chuck Lynd The Ohio State University Lynd.7@osu.edu

2. Strategies to Overcome ICT Challenges • Support Early Adopters • Recognition • Opportunities for Professional Development • Membership in Professional Associations

3. ISTE Membership • International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) • National Education Technology Standards (NETS) Project • Teachers • Students • Preparing Tomorrow’s Teachers to Use Technology (PT3)

4. Take an ICT Colleague to Lunch • Cultural Exchange Opportunity • Involve ICT Staff in Course Planning and Development • Offer Professional Development Opportunities to ICT Staff • Insist on ICT staff commitment to the university mission

5. Involve Students in ICT Support • Immigrant Families Learn New Language from their children • Computers and Internet are new languages and students learn them more quickly • Support for Faculty • Volunteer or inexpensive Help Desk support • Support for Students • Mentor roles

6. Leverage SMS with Students • Explore ways to use SMS when communicating with students • Invite students to use SMS with each other for collaboration or cooperative class projects • Create SMS “trees” (like phone trees) to encourage communication among groups of students

7. Partner with Local Assets • Collaborate with Local Organizations and Agencies • Share Internet bandwidth costs with local governments, other schools, libraries • ICT training support from vocational/technical schools • ICT hardware donations from local business

8. Access SEAMOLEC Resources • Membership in HYLITE Program for Distance Learning • Hybrid approach • Web-based resources • Consulting and Technical Assistance

9. Plan for Quality ICT Benchmarks • HYLITE Program • On-Site Visits Explore Quality Indicators of ICT Programs • Focused interviews with ICT staff, vice rectors, faculty, and students • Gap analysis: where we are and where we want to go • USINTEC recommendations

10. Going Online: Doing More with Less • Email Communications • Training faculty, staff, and students with expectations for use on a daily basis • Listservs for Individual Courses • Faculty communications with students • Communications between students • Emphasize Community (Learning & Practice)

11. Free & Low Cost e-Strategies • Use Web-based Services (Free but with Ads) • Yahoo! and Google Email and Community Groups • File Storage for Backup Files • FTP Sites for Large Multimedia File Exchanges • Administrative Applications • Website with Content Management Database • Capture or Record Audio Video Media • Provide contents on CDs or DVD

12. Free & Low Cost eResources • ISTE http://www.iste.org/ • National Educational Technology Standards for Students, Teachers, and Administrators http://www.iste.org/Template.cfm?Section=NETS • Adapt the standards for Indonesia

13. Free & Low Cost e-Resources • Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers to Use Technology (PT3) • 1999-2004 Results from PT3 Grants • Book: Integrated Technologies, Innovative Learning: Insights from the PT3 Program • http://www.iste.org/eseries/source/Orders/isteProductDetail.cfm?product_code=PT3PRO

14. Free & Low Cost e-Resources • Internet4Classrooms: Helping Teachers Use the Internet Effectively • http://www.internet4classrooms.com/ • International Education and Resource Network • http://www.iearn.org/ • Education World • http://www.education-world.com/a_tech/archives/technology.shtml

15. Free & Low Cost e-Resources • Membership in SEAMOLEC HYLITE Consortium • http://pjjpgsd.seamolec.org/home • MERLOT: Multimedia Educational Resources for Learning and Online Teaching • http://www.merlot.org • Journal of Online Learning and Teaching • http://jolt.merlot.org/currentissue.html

16. Free & Low Cost e-Resources • Sloan-C: The Sloan Consortium of Institutions and Organizations Committed to Quality Online Learning • http://www.sloan-c.org/ • The Sloan-c synthesis of effective practices: • http://www.sloan-c.org/effective/index.asp • Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks • http://www.sloan-c.org/publications/jaln/index.asp

17. Free & Low Cost e-Resources • Virtual Center for Online Learning Research (VCOLR) • http://www.ncolr.org/ • Journal of Interactive Online Learning • http://www.ncolr.org/jiol/issues/ • Techsoup: The Technology Place for Nonprofits • http://www.techsoup.org/

18. Onno Purbo • New Blog by Indonesian Internet Activist • http://asiablogging.com/blog/193/onno-w-purbo-blogging/ • Practical Guide To Gain Knowledge and Acceptance in IT Community • http://asiablogging.com/blog/192/practical-guide-to-gain-knowledge-and-acceptance-in-it-community/

19. ICT Course Syllabi • Examples of ICT courses taught at Ohio State University and Indiana University • Two Approaches Offered • Emphasis on infusion of ICT into coursework • Emphasis on Lab-based course work • University of Illinois integrates ICT into coursework • Syllabi Available on CD-ROM • USINTEC participants will receive the CD-ROM

20. Dream the Dream! • Are the Challenges of Computer and Internet Literacy Worth the Effort? • 7 Wonders of the Ancient World Versus the ICT Artifacts of Our Modern Era… • Is it Possible to Feel a Sense of Awe about ICT?

21. Evolutionary Chain of Languages • The Six Languages & How They Change Our World • Speech, Writing, Math, Science • Computers, Internet • Computer Chips (photolithography) • Networked Universe (society, nature, consciousness)

22. Sense of Awe • “Any science or technology that is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.”~ Arthur C. Clarke

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