Teaching & Learning with ICT

Abstract

The presenter Albert Chieng will discuss the integration of ICT in schools and the curriculum by using various models developed by various authors. Integration of ICT will be dependent on many factors ranging from teachers' ICT skills, knowledge and their attitude to ICT, eLeadership of the school (policy, principal, IT coordinator), hardware and software (ICT infrastructure), the cost of implementation, the pedagogies used in the classroom, the subject areas, the students, and others. His discussion will also include strategies used to promote collaborative learning in the classroom and the importance of various objectives of ICT in education. He will also brief on the preliminary finding of his research on the inclusion of objectives of ICT in education by HK schools and teachers.Albert Chieng is Lecturer in the Centre for Information Technology in School and Teacher Education within the Faculty of Education. He is teaching in both Bachelor of Education (IT in education) and Master of Science (IT in education) programs. Prior to his current appointment in September 2001 he was a senior lecturer and the coordinator of language education programs at the University of New England (Armidale, Australia). He was appointed as the Founding Director of the Wuxi (China) off-campus of the University of New England (Australia) in 2000-1 , which offers Bachelor of IT and Bachelor of Business in China.published_or_final_versionCentre for Information Technology in Education, University of Hong Kon