Margaret Kwan's List: MITE 6023 - Paper 3 Other Readings

• • If properly integrated, ICT-enabled education has the potential to promote the development of students' decision-making and problem solving skills, data processing skills, and 
    communication capabilities
• • The successful integration of any 
    technology, thus ICT, into the classroom warrants careful planning and depends 
    largely on how well policy makers understand and appreciate the dynamics of such 
    integration. 
• • nullIn Case of South Africa 
    the use of the best combination of educational technologies to meet the national and international challenges. This combination will consist of low-cost, highimpact, mass-delivery approaches through radio, television, and printed text in order to meet the national challenge, and computers and the Internet to meet the international challenge -- 2012-03-02
    Educational reform is a positive process but recommendations that are made should be realistic, 
    feasible and dependent on the economic, social, and political situations of a country -- 2012-03-02
    The case of Mauritius
     phased-implementation approach. Under this formula, around 50 computer laboratories would be set up each year in 50 
    primary schools instead of equipping all 284 primary schools at one time. This approach has been advanced as being more realistic and feasible. -- 2012-03-02
    The Case of the State of Michigan, USA
     The formulation of and adherence to an implementation plan. Like any project, technology integration needs to be properly planned and the plan needs to be adhered to and its implementation monitored. Without this, there will be little or no chance for successfully 
    achieving the set goals -- 2012-03-03
    
• • Motivated by the prospect of greater economic, social, educational and technological gains, both 
    developing and developed countries, are bringing about education reform
    - securing jobs in competitive job market
    - computer-literate to qualify for jobs
    - compete in global information based-knowledge-base economy
    
    Thus, is a question of when and how to integrate technology. among parties concernd
• • On the other hand, the latter countries can gain a lot by 
    learning and adapting the ‘ready-made’ skills and expertise of their advanced counterparts, and 
    they can do so with relatively less money. This means that developing countries and poorer 
    nations do not require investing as much as their more developed counterparts have had to do. 
• • nullThe plan 
    should be produced, not for the sole purpose of putting technology in the classroom but to reflect 
    the real needs of schools in order to make effective technology deployment and to produce 
    enhanced learning environments. The involvement of all stakeholders in the preparation and 
    execution of the plan has been identified as a catalyst in the integration process. -- 2012-03-02
    Levine (1998) and Cheever et al. (1986) thus inform us how essential it is to plan at different levels based on real needs in order to increase the probability of getting the acceptance and support of all other stakeholders both philosophically and financially. Therefore, technology integration requires the preparation, implementation and evaluation of holistic plans at various levels – the classroom, school, district, state, and across the nation  -- 2012-03-02
    

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