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WSIS Meeting, UNESCO, 26 February 2013 Professor Asha Kanwar President & CEO, Commonwealth of Learning Can Technology lead to System-Wide Change? The case of Guyana

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Page 1: WSIS Meeting, UNESCO, 26 February 2013 Professor Asha Kanwar President & CEO, Commonwealth of Learning Can Technology lead to System- Wide Change? The

WSIS Meeting, UNESCO, 26 February 2013

Professor Asha Kanwar President & CEO, Commonwealth of Learning

Can Technology lead to System-Wide Change? The case of Guyana

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The partnership:

Cyril Potter College of Education

Ministry of Education

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Does technology lead to system-wide change?

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The Example of Guyana

• Functional literacy rate is approximately 50%

• Retention of qualified teachers is a problem

• Less than 50% of teachers are fully trained (2007)

• 27% of the population are Internet users

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UNESCO ICT Competency Framework

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COL Resources

Commonwealth Certificate for Teacher ICT Integration (CCTI)

ICT-CFT Toolkit ICT Teacher Professional

Development Strategy Model – Guyana Case Course Materials

Commonwealth Computer Navigator’s Certificate (CCNC)

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ICT-CFT Toolkit

Toolkit brings together resources that COL has used in implementing the UNESCO-CFT in Guyana.

Available online and on CD: http://ccti.colfinder.org/toolkit/ict-toolkit/

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Commonwealth Certificate for Teacher ICT Integration (CCTI)

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CFT implementation model

Local buy-in Align curriculum

to competencies Identify relevant

OER Train the trainers

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Commonwealth Certificate for Teacher ICT Integration (CCTI) Working to implement

in six countries, mainly in the Caribbean region:– Grenada– Antigua & Barbuda– Trinidad & Tobago– The Bahamas– Saint Vincent and the

Grenadines– Dominica

One African country:– Lesotho

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Implementing the CCTI

Continued engagement with the MoE in each country

Localisation of content New modules developed for each

countryBuild capacity

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Aligning the curriculum

Cyril Potter College of Teacher Education University of Guyana

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Guyana: success factors Catalysing appropriate partnerships Focus on localisation Advocacy and Monitoring and evaluation strategies

critical

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What did CFT/CCTI do?

Trained teachers in ICTPromoted use of OERResulted in curriculum review Encouraged collaboration

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System-wide change

Curricular reform Trained teachers Harnessing the

potential of ICT Innovative

pedagogic practices

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Towards sustainability emphasis on people, rather than on

technologies knowledge as a social product emerging as

an interface of machine, individual, society learning as a process of knowledge creation

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