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GUIDE : ICT AND SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT
HOW TO DEAL WITH CYBERBULLYING IN SCHOOLS?
Cyber bullying is a huge problem nowadays between students due to the facilities that social networks offer them to hide their identity and bully other students. It is one of the most frequent ways used of bullying that in many cases happen without control of teachers or parents hiding threats behind the screen which can contribute to create a psychological damage on students. Cyber bullying can be even worse for the victims than the physical one and also it is easy for stalkers to keep all their actions in a secretly way. This issue is trying to be prevented in schools and high schools thanks to educative approach devised by the educative centres or different universities. These are the links of some of the prevention programs we explained in class:
https://alumnosayudantes.wordpress.com/
http://www.ehu.eus/ojs/index.php/psicodidactica/article/viewFile/10239/10194
http://www.revistacomunicar.com/index.php?contenido=detalles&numero=39&articulo=39-2012-15
http://www.papelesdelpsicologo.es/pdf/2172.pdf
http://www.rtve.es/drmn/embed/video/93776IDE:
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-34174796
In this article we can find some information about ICT in class and the importance of it. The video speaks about the uses of ICT in some schools and they give some advantages and disadvantages about the use. One disadvantage is for example how kids can get distracted while they are searching on the internet for information and they start watching images or videos with inexistence relation.
Overall, thanks to this video and in general, thanks to the link, we can understand without problems what ICT is and how it can be used.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nA1Aqp0sPQo
In this one, we’ve got information about the 21st century education and how it could be improved. We can see how they include information about social networks and about how many videos, photos or friends we see or follow around the world each day.
We can find information about timetables in different countries and some example of countries where they can use phones or tablets during school classes. In Denmark for example they can use computers while they are on an exam, they just can’t talk to each other or send messages during those tests but they are allowed to use Facebook too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kqme9Y71TuM
This video shows the importance that technologies have in nowadays society and also in education. It is giving an example of a school which uses technology to the highest standard and in innovative ways so that learners and the community benefit.
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/educol/documents/00001768.htm
This article examines the ways in which findings from school improvement and ITC literature converge and diverge, and provides examples of how insights from both areas might be brought together, to the advantage of schools, teachers, students and parents. As increasing amounts of money are spent on ICT and new learning infrastructures in schools, it is important that these two areas of educational research and practice should be brought closer together. This article calls for more direct research and discussion on the issue of how ICT can contribute to processes of school improvement.
https://www.naace.co.uk/school-improvement/self-review-framework/
It would be important checking this link if you want to lean more and understand about self-review framework. It gives us a basic explanation of what it is, its purposes and the ideas that should be reviewed.
It provides a structure for reviewing your school’s use of technology and its impact on school improvement.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0360131510000503
The text is really interesting due to its talks about the introduction process that ICT has passed to be part of the education. It also mentions the influence that ICT has in the education system nowadays. It shows statistics about the improvement that schools, students and teachers have experimented, doing continuous references to other authors that have worked with this topic. Various methodologies are explained to improve ICT knowledge of students and teachers. It can be useful to read this article just to know how ICTs are affecting our educational system and to have a better perspective of what is happening in the field of education nowadays.
http://www.unesco.org/new/en/unesco/themes/icts/policy/international-conference-on-ict-and-post-2015-education/ - International Conference on ICT and Post-2015 Education
After a short introduction giving some background information and dealing with the importance of ICT nowadays the texts gives some reasons for the use of Technology at school. Which leads to the second point of the article which is an overview about the goals and objectives of the conference which was held in May 2015 but is still actual not only because of the content-related relevance but also because of the debate about education after 2015. As we are now in 2017 we are still at the beginning of fulfilling the goals which were developed in an agenda at the conference.
The main part of the article deals with the subthemes concerning leaders and how they can improve future education by using ICT in an effective way to guarantee quality learning. Furthermore the mention the importance of ICT in inclusive education and the process of lifelong learning. The last two subthemes are about the access to quality content and last but not least ways how to monitor and evaluate ICT in future education.
Activity: Search on the website of UNESCO and their youtube channel for more information and how teachers can benefit by using ICT.
-> http://www.unesco.org/new/en/unesco/themes/icts/
-> https://www.youtube.com/user/unesco
Find out what the UNESCO King Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa Prize is and what for. ->http://www.unesco.org/new/en/unesco/themes/icts/ict-in-education-prize/
HOW CAN WE USE ICT IN RELATION WITH SPECIAL NEEDS?
-> http://www.educacontic.es/blog/recursos-tic-para-necesidades-educativas-especiales
DO YOU WANT TO USE SELF-REVIEW FRAMEWORK TO ASSESS THE LEADERSHIP ELEMENTS IN YOUR SCHOOL?
-> http://mirandanet.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/using_technology_school_improvements.pdf
WHICH WAYS DO YOU KNOW TO USE ICT IN THE CLASSROOM?
http://www.teachhub.com/12-easy-ways-use-technology-your-classroom-even-technophobic-teachers