Course Outcome(s):
Explain ICT policies and safety issues as they impact on the teaching-
learning process.
LESSON 1: Uses of ICT Policies in the Teaching and Learning
Environment
Time Allocation: 1 hour
Intended Learning Outcome(s):
Discuss ICT policies that are incorporated to the design and
implementation of teaching-learning activities.
Introduction
Globalization is reality and ICT has become a fundamental part of the process. A
network society is one in which the entire planet is organized around telecommunicated
networks of computers. The powerful use of network has broken boundaries, provided
opportunities for inclusion and collaboration. However, there will be a struggle for those
who do not have the access or those who are excluded, marginalized and powerless. Thus
a need to establish policies, in the use of ICT imperative.
Preliminary Question(s)
Would your life as a teacher be also influenced by the new technologies?
II. CONNECT
Information and Communications Technology (ICT) can impact student learning when
teachers are digitally literate and understand how to integrate it into curriculum.
Schools use a diverse set of ICT tools to communicate, create, disseminate, store, and
manage information. In some contexts, ICT has also become integral to the teaching-
learning interaction, through such approaches as replacing chalkboards with interactive
digital whiteboards, using students’ own smartphones or other devices for learning during
class time, and the “flipped classroom” model where students watch lectures at home on
the computer and use classroom time for more interactive exercises.
When teachers are digitally literate and trained to use ICT, these approaches can lead
to higher order thinking skills, provide creative and individualized options for students to
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express their understandings, and leave students better prepared to deal with ongoing
technological change in society and the workplace.
ICT issues planners must consider include: considering the total cost-benefit equation,
supplying and maintaining the requisite infrastructure, and ensuring investments are
matched with teacher support and other policies aimed at effective ICT use.
Watch the video on ICT Policies and Issues: Implications to Teaching and learning on
this link [Link]
(See reference pages 26-36, Bilbao, Purita P., Dequilla, Ma. Asuncion Christine V., Rosano,
Daisy A., Boholano, Helen B. (2019). Technology for Teaching and Learning I. Quezon
City: Lorimar Publishing.)
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