AralaNet Digital Empowerment Workshops for Educators
The Context:
The continuing investments of government, civil society and private schools to improve delivery of instruction through deployment of computer workstations and Internet access in the library, instructional laboratory, and student computer activity center have brought the opportunity for the computer applications, Internet technologies, and web based content to realize the improvement of instructional events and instructional materials in all schools.
Hence, with the digital opportunity comes the challenge to improve understanding of learning and teaching within the context of on-line instructional event. At the same time it poses the question to every educators, "How to use the technology resources offered by the community Internet access providers to serve the curriculum goals of education?"
It is imperative that the teachers must be self-enabled, empowered to fulfill their role of “teaching” inside the digital space.
But many schools are faced with the challenge on how to begin. On how to align and optimize the investment on computer technologies and Internet access achieve the goals of instruction and learning. How to make Internet cafe and computer shops located around the schools serve the learning interests through the Internet based services and computer applications.
The AralaNET Training Program introduces the implementation strategy for the schools on how to use the e-learning resources in the Internet to support instruction and learning.
It introduces a process to bring into the hands of the teachers the guidance, the walk-through experience, and the tools to create and manage on-line instructional web space. The guided exposure to the on-line learning content will improve the knowledge base, and enrich the instructional activity of teachers.
It empowers the teachers to manage e-learning and engage the students to learn inside the Internet.
From the classroom, the students are led to continuous learning inside the Internet where on-line instructional presentation, reference, activity, and assessment are openly published and updated by the teachers within the context of the school’s defined competency standards.
The AralaNET Capability Building Workshops for Subject Area Teachers and Coordinators are designed for them to:
- Define the pedagogical framework, implementation common language, work objectives, work packages, process and technology to implement the integration of computer applications and Internet technologies in instruction, learning and governance.
- Design and build the on-line instructional space called "webboard" to contain subject instructional guide, study guide, lecture notes, links to on-line forum, e-mail group, blogs, wikipedia, and on-line content references.
- Create on-line identity through the use of public Internet services.
- Define the framework to formulate the Instructional Plan that integrates digital technology resources
- Create reusable Instructional Plan template that incorporates modalities of e-learning and content from readily available digital repositories.
- Search and evaluate reusable learning objects that are readily available in the Internet.
- Review and use curricular content and standard references from the World Wide Web, and integrate the use to the approved curricular references.
- Work with open source application software that run both in Windows and Linux to get into the Internet, to search and retrieve information, to create presentation, write and publish web pages, and to collaborate and communicate.
- Use Open Source Licensing Framework to publish instructional presentations on-line.
- Develop the performance metrics and assessment tools to ascertain the value proposition of integrating computer applications and Internet technologies to education.
Two Days Training on Computer Applications and Internet Technologies for Education
Two Days Training on Instructional Planning for ICT Integration
Four Days Training on Instructional Webboard - Teaching with Technology
