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Managing ICT in Education:Eight conversations
Andy BythewaySAICTED second team meeting
Goedgedacht, March 2012
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Topics
• The project• A trip around the world• Eight conversations• The analysis• The results
– Context– Information management– Issues
• So what?
SAICTED second team meeting - Goedgedacht, March 2012
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The project flow
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Project management
Existing research is fragmented –
systemic thinking is needed
Investment in ICTs in education is not
delivering benefits Do we need a reference model
and a body of knowledge?
Conceptualise and prepare bid
By perspective
Literature reviews
Build a body of knowledge
New ICT managment
capability
Meta-study of the domain
Develop Reference
Model
Populatea Wiki
Develop implementation
guidelines
Teaching and learningpractice
Research project
Case studies
Analyse success and failure
Graduation Publication
Existing literature
Educational theory
Information management
theory
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A trip around the world
SAICTED second team meeting - Goedgedacht, March 2012
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Rochester, New York State, USA - Primary SchoolToronto, Canada - Business SchoolBemidji, Minnesota, USA - UniversityDayton, Ohio, USA - UniversitySan Diego, California, USA - Senior Citizen ClubAuckland, New Zealand - High School, UniversitySydney, Australia - Pre-primary SchoolalsoYork, United Kingdom - Educational Technology consultant
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Eight conversations
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But these people, surely some of them would have some skills?
Some of them, but some of them absolutely knew nothing.
[Chuck, Senior Citizens Club, San Diego, CA, USA, 2011/05/08]
Tell me about some of the great things you are
able to do in the classroom with the kids.
We've just introduced the i-Pads - we have six i-Pads, three of them are the new i-Pad 2 - they came today - we haven't had the chance to play with them yet. But we are allowed to take them home … there are a lot of educational apps that are out there you can use
[Lami, Pre-primary teacher, , 2011/05/16]
Are we just touching on the issue of pedagogy?
You start off with the basic thought that we all babble about pedagogy, and yet none of us have ever been trained in it.
[Ken, Sometime Dean and Teaching Chair, Toronto, Canada, 2011/04/28]
The integration story … ?
Well I've just come across on the ferry this morning and said "Sir, are you the 'father' of CECIL?" and I said "well, one of them!" and he said "I just came back to university, I've been away five years and when I logged in everything is still there! All the classes were there that I took before, all my notes, all my stuff, that's an amazing system!" I said "that's the way we designed it"
[Don, Business faculty, Auckland NZ, 2011/05/17]
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The analysis
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We have a home-built Qualitative Content Analyser – we can do exactly what we want with it!
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The results
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We can analyse what people wanted to talk about by counting the references …
… but that’s not very helpful!Let’s look at the categories and then try some selective charts
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So what?
• They see the context in educational terms, but education is changing dramatically for external non-educational reasons.
• Strategic thinking about information management is fixated on the technology (at one end) and on the organisational strategy (at the other - but it is WEAK thinking) - amazingly, the benefits (of ICTs) are the least thought of.
• There are more problems than opportunities, more attention is needed to actual educational topics, dependencies and experimentation.
• When talking of resources, the focus is the activities that education involves - to be expected?
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We can see things at a still higher level:
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Investment
Previous work
Benefit
Education
ICT
Existing Educational
theories
Reference model
Stakeholders(policy makers,
educators)
CompetencyTeacher capabilityCurriculum designResource availabilityCulture
Existing Information
Management theories
Management of ICTs in
Education
Strategic thinkingGood planningCareful integration
Pre-schoolPrimarySecondaryTertiaryAdult education
ResearchPublicationResource managementLearning designDeliveryAssessment
FragmentedFocus on e-learning & LMSs
Existing Technology
management theories
CommunityPolicy makersEducatorsLearners
Indicators
New body of knowledge
Implementation
NetworiksPCsWhite boardsData loggers
TrainingChange management
Prioject managementAcquisitionEngineeringSystem development
T&L processesEducation
challenges, opportunities
Education activities
The project ideas or concepts