eTeachers Impact of ICT on Teachers Competencies Jarmo Viteli University of Tampere Hypermedialab Fi

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e-Teachers Impact of ICT on Teachers
CompetenciesJarmo ViteliUniversity of
TampereHypermedialabFinland
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Knowledge and skills of Teachers

• One out of four teachers only feel confident with
  their present ICT skills and with their
  pedagogical competence to use ICT
• Two out of three teachers would like to get more
  training and more support in ICT and in ICT based
  teaching and learning

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Types of educational use

• word-processing in preparing study reports and
  research reports
• web-browsing for information search
• e-mail for communication with peers
• graphics
• learning about ICT

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ICT skills of students (10-18) I have good
skills in

• 1996 1999
• word-processing 35 45
• installing software 25 32
• downloading from web 15 35
• emailing 6 50
• web-browsing 12 56
• copying files 9 42
• graphics - 9
• desk-top publishing 3 3

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What ICT has replaced(among those who use PC
over 5 h/week)

• watching TV 38
• unspecified loafing 36
• out-door activities 33
• reading 29
• school homework 26
• work at home 25
• being with the family 24
• talking over the telephone 14
• seeing friends 8
• hobbies 4

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Willingness of students to use ICT in learning
Would like to use more ICT in learning
Girls Boys
Agree Agree Dont Disagree
Disagree strongly know
strongly
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Usage of PC in schools during the autumn 1996 and
1999 ()
Year
10-15
16-18
All
1996
76
52
72
1999
81
81
81
Juha Nurmela, Statistics Finland, 2000
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Summary of positive features

• positive and confident attitudes
• basic skills adopted widely
• plenty of innovative cases
• technical infrastructure approaching
  pedagogically appropriate levels
• clearly catalysing (pedagogical paradigm) change
• schools and libraries seem to equalise access to
  and use of ICT

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Future Teacher

• Choose meaningful contexts for the learning
• Choose the learning activities ahead of the
  content
• Choose open-ended and ill-structured tasks
• Make the resources plentiful
• Provide supports for the learning
• Use authentic assessment activities

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To be addressed or improved

• sustainable cost levels not yet reached
• although modern, hardware not sufficiently
  available
• a shortage of high-quality digital learning
  materials
• pedagogical and technical support insufficient
• increased and better focused teacher training
  needed
• need to raise the present level of research and
  development of high-level learning
  environments
• need to improve the dissemination of good
  practices
• need to deal with the paramount and constantly
  growing issue of equality

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Over-all adoption of ICT in Finnish education
Pedagogically superficial use
Pedagogically meaningful use real value added
Adapted from Geoffrey Moore's Revised Technology
Adoption Life Cycle Curve
Mind the gap!