Embedding ICT in learning: power in rural partnerships

Title
Embedding ICT in learning: power in rural partnerships
Publication Date
2009
Author(s)
Pegg, John E
Reading, Christine E
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6906-7965
Email: creading@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:creading
Editor
Editor(s): Boylan, Colin
Type of document
Conference Publication
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Society for the Provision of Education in Rural Australia (SPERA)
Place of publication
Osborne Park, Australia
UNE publication id
une:5576
Abstract
This paper draws on aspects of the Partnerships in ICT Learning (PICTL) study funded by the federal Government and reported in 2008. The purpose of the PICTL study was to demonstrate good-practice approaches to embedding Information and Communication Technology (ICT) throughout the educational experience of pre-service teachers, teachers and teacher educators. To address this, the research program investigated ICT partnership approaches in a variety of Australian contexts through developing, trialling and evaluating forms of partnerships among universities, education authorities (government and non-government) and schools. Data from the PICTL study indicate that progress in embedding ICT within the curriculum remains limited and when considered nationally, despite large investments of funds, the situation might best be described as being in the early phases of adoption. There are great differences in ICT take-up throughout Australia and in the use of, and knowledge about, ICT in learning within and between systems, schools and tertiary institutions, and between teachers and tertiary educators.
Link
Citation
Society for the Provision of Education in Rural Australia 25th National Rural Education Conference Proceedings - Education in a Digital Present: Enriching Rural Communities, p. 11-23
ISBN
097754933X
Start page
11
End page
23

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