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Activity 5: Learning communities: Exploring ICT integration lessons
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Find websites: 90
mins
Write e-mail to contact person: 90 mins
Write lessons learnt in portfolio: 1 hr
Write case study: 2 hrs
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In this activity you will explore case
studies of schools elsewhere in the world. This is to assist
you develop a vision on what your own school might begin to
look like with ICTs integrated into every aspect of the school.
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Activity
- Find and explore websites of two
schools using ICTs, one in your country and one abroad.
On these websites you will find e-mail contact details,
that you should use to communicate with the school.
Think about what you would like to learn from their
experience in having integrated ICTs at their school?
Ask yourself the following questions as you review
their site:
- What are they doing with
ICTs at their school?
- How far is their ICT integration?
- What would you like to learn
from these schools and their experience of having
integrated ICTs in their school?
- Have they discovered any
limitations from their experience of integrating ICTs
at the school?
- What visions do they still
have for the future of their school with ICT integration
being a part of school life?
- How have they overcome difficulties
and how have they celebrated successes?
- What was the leader's role
in sustaining ICT integration and change at the school?
In addition to these questions, you may also have
questions that have arisen from your own school experience.
You might want to share these experiences with this
school and explain something of your context.
- Construct an e-mail and send it
to these schools. When you receive a response, make
a brief comparison of these schools with your own
by written points in your e-diary.
Include lessons
that you have learnt from your correspondence with
these schools.
- Send a message to your group (using the subject heading "Lessons learnt from other schools") commenting on the responses that you
received from these schools, sharing just the most
valuable ideas that you have read.
- Write a summary case study on
one of the schools in the e-diarywith the heading Learning communities. This case study
should be at least two pages long. Your case study
should include information on the following:
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The Context of
the School
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The School’s
ICT use
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Lessons we can
learn from them
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Recommendations
for our own School
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Send your final
version of your case study in the e-diary as an attachment in email to
your tutor (using the subject heading "Learning Communities") and ask for feedback.
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NEXT Once you have completed this activity, click
here to move to Activity 6
- Models and stages of technology change. |
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