"The positive impact of ICTs in classrooms is indisputable: increased student management and engagement, personalized learning, school retention, higher enrollment in secondary and tertiary education; civic engagement, and improved health. In short, teachers are multipliers of education, for each teacher reaches hundreds of young people. With the proper support, technology can help them become accelerators of human welfare." TWB |
ICTs in Education Initiative Partners
The e-group has built a strong bond with Teachers Without Boarders or TWB. We share ideas and initiatives and over the years helped in the setting up of many educational facilities in refugee hubs.. The main TWB initiative we strive to excel in is the delivery of Information and Communication Technologies in the classroom. As the worlds refugee camps evolve into cities education is the first item on any logistical operation list.
With organisations such as Unicef, Save the Children and UNESCO working on the ground to construct classrooms and deliver lessons it is not long before the right atmosphere for the introduction of technology is created. As a group we strive to serve the needs of our young people and their carers in an authentic way, the integration of technology ensures that all students and parents have the opportunity to become competent, discriminating, creative and compassionate users of a range of technologies. Such integration of technologies has the potential to engage students with their parents in ways not previously possible, to enhance their achievement to create new learning possibilities and to extend students' and in turn parents' interaction with their local and global world. |
Reframing Schooling in a Digital Age - Online Parent Resource - OPRs
Our OPRs will provide parents with a snapshot of selected devices, applications and teaching methods currently used in your child's classroom. Whilst navigating this resource parents will encounter information on how each technology is used in the classroom with perspectives from teachers and parents. Activities are also included to deliver a hands on approach designed to assist parents to become familiar with their children’s use of technology in the classroom and beyond.
The use of the ICTs and OPRs changes the focus of control from the teacher as sole source of knowledge to the teacher as both a knowledge expert and facilitator of student learning and introduces the parent as an overseer increasing their role in their child's education. The most effective use of ICTs and OPRs in education cannot replace a teacher, rather, they help make good teachers and parents better.
The use of the ICTs and OPRs changes the focus of control from the teacher as sole source of knowledge to the teacher as both a knowledge expert and facilitator of student learning and introduces the parent as an overseer increasing their role in their child's education. The most effective use of ICTs and OPRs in education cannot replace a teacher, rather, they help make good teachers and parents better.