ICT and education: for inclusive growth

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ICT and education for inclusive growth

• M.M.Pant

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some initial questions

• If ICT is the solution, then what is the problem?
• If ICT is the answer, then what is the question?
• If ICT is what we are doing, what is it in aid
  of?

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some responses

• Inclusive education is the problem
• How can we achieve inclusive education is the
  question
• Education for all is what we want to do

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The challenges

• The challenge of numbers
• The challenge of Quality
• The challenge of access

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But the most important of it all..

• The challenge of the mind-set

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Traditional tribal model of education

• Admit a few naturally occurring good learners
• Recruit some naturally occurring good faculty
• Put them in a nice campus, and good learning
  would happen
• It does happen.BUT

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Limitations of the traditional tribal model

• It is not replicable
• It is not scalable
• It is not sustainable
• Only a technology empowered model will have the
  above attributes

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ICT in the classroom.the story so far

• A desktop computer/laptop in the class-room
• An LCD projector to display to the group
• Some sessions in the computer lab
• A variety of software
• But significantly didactic and less interactive

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Goals of learning

• Knowing the syllabus
• Mainly recalling information
• Application in predictable areas
• Some laboratory work
• Exams of several hours with a variety of question
  types
• All paper and pen/pencil type

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Examination performance

• Mainly a Bell curve
• Debate on whether we evaluate using marks or
  grade them
• The examination can find out some of the things
  the child does not know, but not all of the
  things that the child knows (his intellectual
  capital potential)

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Potential for improvement

• A student can demonstrate what he knows and where
  he stands on the developmental scale
• He can attain the desired goals (Grade A) given a
  longer time to learn and ways and means to
  achieve mastery
• The Bell curve can be History

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A long journey on the path of e-content

• The first metaphor country-wide classroom
• The second metaphor multi-media e-book
• The third metaphor virtual classroom
• The future metaphor GPS

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The stages of ICT usage

• Status Quo with computers present, but no
  difference in work culture
• Slight reduction in performance because of
  over-dependence on Computers
• Niche areas for computing applications
• Transformation of key processes
• Total transformation and new ways of working

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How would ICT affect education?

• What is taught (the syllabus)
• Who teaches, how and where (de-institutionalizatio
  n)
• Emergence of teaching and learning networks and
  learning communities
• From exclusive education to inclusive education
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  policy for cell phone access)

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Some future trends in ICT

• Hardware getting smaller, more powerful ,less
  power consumption
• Software more intelligent, more adaptive
• Networking more wireless, hand-held devices,
  Internet 2

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The skills of a lifetime become obsolete in an
instant

• New skill sets wanted upgrading existing skills
• Fall in demand of old skill sets
• Life time of particular skill sets decreasing
• Learning how to learn is critical

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We all know GPS

• Global Positioning System
• GPS devices tell you your exact longitude and
  latitude (it gets the information from orbiting
  satellites).
• GPS refers to satellite-based radio positioning
  systems that provide 24 hour three-dimensional
  position, velocity and time information to
  suitably equipped users anywhere on or near the
  surface of the Earth (and sometimes off the
  earth).

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How does one create a GPS for education?

• Define a learners position on cognitive,
  affective and psycho-motor dimensions
• Target the new location within a defined time
  span week, term, year
• Design learning interventions to achieve that
  target
• Deploy instruments of measurement for the above

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Levels of achievement
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In a nutshell

• Education training should encompass domain
  knowledge and skills for life-long learning
• We have to provide both opportunity and support
  for perseverence
• Our sights should be the workplace a decade
  hence, not what it was half-a century ago
• Create not employment seekers but skill providers
  and value enhancers

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Generic skills needed in tomorrows world

• ICT fluency
• Communication skills both face to face and remote
• Adaptive personality
• Creativity and innovation
• Entrepreneurship
• Learnability

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Thank You !!!!!
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