Hope everyone is good and benefiting learners with your expertise.In relation to a article: "Barriers to the Successful Integration of ICT in Teaching and Learning Environment: A Review of the Literature".
Indeed it was a good read and helped in nourishing my ideas, but in respect of the professional development of the faculty there is a quotation mentioned on page 239 of this article that, " Providing pedagogical training for teachers, rather than simply training them to use ICT tools, is an important issue (Becta, 2004)."
I am a bit concerned about the difference between that 'Pedagogical Training' and 'Training ICT Tools'. I am working to design a frame work about the training of teachers in relation to ICT, as this is a barrier that continuously effecting the optimal utilization of ICT in our classrooms.
Please comment and recommend suggestions on how that barrier could be handled ?
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I do agree with Hina and Fouzia that the barriers are different as per the geographical locations. But one thing which i would like to share and indeed wanted you all to reflect upon is the missing links across curriculum when you are embedding technology in your classrooms. As it is evident from the fact that if teacher have no input at the developmental time of the curriculum they will just follow it as a holistic code without even knowing the rationale behind its evolution. Than comes the phase of technical expertise and ICT tools awareness programs. When teachers are following curriculum documents as a mean of just following and acting accordingly than how could they inculcate the values and creativity. So the technical training and the rationale of embedding ICT across curriculum should be treated separately and training sessions were designed accordingly.
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