ICT & Global Education

I work with international educators doing teacher training in rural Sudan. One of the schools we work with - the sole high school in a region serving about 10,000 students K-graduation - has a small computer lab but only two of the teachers in the school and region know how to use it. We have been doing training with the teachers of the region to enable them to use this resource to improve their insructional practice and to introduce them to and provide them with e-resources to support this. Before we began this program, all but a couple of the computers had been sitting in boxes, unused for more than a year.

Hi Brad
my Name is Khanyiso from south Africa Cape, i am been working for an NGO based here which also provides the same services for local schools with human recourses to support the ICT growth and intense training workshops for learners and educator.
it is my pleasure to know you and hopefully God knows we can all make a change and help each. if you would like to know more about the organisation check www.edunova.org

I am in a collaborative project now with a school from Nigeria, as well as other places. Our colleague in Nigeria has constant issues with electricity problems, reliable internet access and overall cost of internet access. Are these common issues that hinder the success as well as the skills and training?

Add to that security problems and lack of integration training & planning and that would just about sum it up. One thing we are looking at is to create a sister school type relationship with our colleagues whereby schools in Canada can support the Internet connection with their partner in the developing region.

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Hi, I am a teacher in Morocco I really like the idea of teaching student how to use the ICT, but in our country this is not the only problem because even if we want to teach them we don’t really find computers to do so.
We as teachers we rarely have a laptop because of their high prices and our low salaries .Me personally ,I don’t have one so that I am obliged to go to the cyber net to get connected .

We have been collaborating with a group from Uganda, an orphanage that currently has one computer. They joined our ning and are on it every day. We have been raising money to help pay for bandwidth (so they can continue to talk with us daily) and possibly a webcam - (so that we can skype with them.)

Would love any insight you can give us, or anything more we can be doing within this group.

Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) will not make a bad teacher professional development program better. The use of technology can, in fact, make TPD programs worse.

When refurbished computers cannot run required software applications, or poor telephone lines don’t support Internet connections, teachers and students waste time, grow frustrated, and abandon new practices to return to familiar ones. When an educational television program demonstrates new teaching methods without showing how they can work in one-teacher schools, teachers in those schools watch the program but tune out the message.
Decades of education research on student learning, teacher development, and school change, have generated a body of relevant knowledge and best practices. Success can be achieved—but only by untangling the complex set of critical factors, and by leveraging previous successes to minimize risk and strengthen project designs.The EBB 4year TPD model is definately an exciting sustainable best practice in Africa