ICT Support for Teacher
Education Programs
US/Indonesia Teacher
Education Consortium
(ISINTEC)
Jakarta, Indonesia July 31, 2007
Chuck Lynd
The Ohio State University
Strategies to Overcome ICT
Challenges
Support Early Adopters
– Recognition
– Opportunities for Professional
Development
ISTE Membership
International Society for
Technology in Education (ISTE)
National Education Technology
Standards (NETS) Project
– Teachers
– Students
Take an ICT Colleague to
Lunch
Cultural Exchange Opportunity
Involve ICT Staff in Course
Planning and Development
Offer Professional Development
Opportunities to ICT Staff
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
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
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
Access SEAMOLEC
Resources
Membership in HYLITE Program for
Distance Learning
– Hybrid approach
– Web-based resources
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
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
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
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
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/Order s/isteProductDetail.cfm?
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
–
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
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
–
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
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
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
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…
Evolutionary Chain of
Languages
The Six Languages & How They
Change Our World
– Speech, Writing, Math, Science
– Computers, Internet
Computer Chips (photolithography)
Networked Universe (society,
Sense of Awe
“Any science or technology that
is
sufficiently advanced is
