Abstract:
A crucial issue facing educators around the world is how to implement meaningful use of information and communication technology (ICT) in schools. The diffusing of good learning and teaching ICT practices in Singapore education system was developed by Ministry of Education (MOE) through the Third Masterplan for ICT (mp3) in Education (MOE, 2009). The journey of encouraging teacher ownership to take leadership in sharing their meaningful use of ICT will be discussed. We will also share the processes and incentives to support teacher lesson example submission with teachers’ reflections on student learning and mp3 goals. Some teachers have already been using this platform to showcase and promote their lesson examples with relevant resources for other teachers to remix and finer customize their lesson ideas. Some informal and less hierarchical teacher professional development can be observed through the Learning Teams Forum in edumall2.0. We believe a combination of information sharing, dialogue and celebrating lesson examples is critical in supporting teachers’ implementation of meaningful use of ICT in classroom. Further policy levels plans to embed some of the more suitable ICT practices will be discussed and we will be welcoming inputs to inform policymakers. For further discussions, go to edumall2.0 ICT connection website forum http://ictconnection.edumall.sg/cos/o.x?c=/ictconnection/forum&uid=200&ptid=709
Reference:
MOE. (2009). Third Masterplan for ICT in Education Retrieved 20 October, 2010, from http://ictconnection.edumall.sg/cos/o.x?c=/ictconnection/pagetree&func=view&rid=665
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