This section provides teachers with links to various teacher training centres and online resources for teaching enhancement.Articles, Papers & Research on Teaching!
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Web Based Curriculum
Web Based Curriculum is an online curriculum management platform that will probably provide you with ideas in developing, designing or help you with your choice of platform when it comes to curriculum management. Please visit and the site and use the user details provided to access it features. [942]
http://dev.inline.com/inlineed/main/default.asp
The Benefits of Information Technology
This is a resource that highlights some of the benefits of Information Technology with emphasis to skills, its use by the education community and an evaluation of its impact. [940]
http://www.ericfacility.net/ericdigests/ed420302.html
Institute for Learning Technology
Learning from the rest of the world: Entering the 21st century, Americans embark on an era of historic change in which they are using new information technologies to renovate education and society for the betterment of humankind. The Institute for Learning Technologies seeks to help advance these changes by exerting educational leadership through innovative projects, seminal research, and enlightened counsel. It aims to nurture, in a sustained manner, the humane application of information technologies, expanding educational opportunity and achievement for all. [939]
http://www.ilt.columbia.edu/classrooms/index.html
POWER AND PEDAGOGY
POWER AND PEDAGOGY: Transforming Education through
Information Technology is a book written by Robbie McClintock and it depicts some of the realities and challenges that face the use of ICTs in education. The book is freely available on the net and readers have been given the right to reproduce it and distribute it is for critical, educational, or scholarly use, and provided they do not alter the text or distribute bulk reproductions for profit. [938]
Power_and_Pedagogy.pdf
TechKnowLogia
TechKnowLogia is an international online journal that provides policy makers, strategists, practitioners and technologists at the local, national and global levels. It has great mind blowing articles and it is highly recommended that you do register if you are serious about education, especially with ICTs in education.
You may have a sneak preview by visiting the table of contents by visiting the link below. Registration is free so what are you waiting for? [936]
http://www.techknowlogia.org/TKL_active_pages2/TableOfContents/main.asp
African Digital Library
The Mission of the African Digital Library (ADL) is to provide digitised full text resources to learners in Africa via the Internet, thereby contributing to the revitalization of education and life long learning on the continent and alleviation of the digital divide between First and Third world countries. The ADL was created in the spirit of the African Renaissance.
The ADL is a collection of electronic books (eBooks) that can be accessed and used free-of-charge by any person living on the African continent. Individuals can access the library from any PC that is connected to the Internet, but he/she needs to register and living in Africa. [783]
http://www.africandl.org.za
ICT in Education
Links to articles, research studies and papers which explain how education has changed to adapt to the new knowledge society and how information technology has contributed to the educational reform and improvements in teaching and learning. [782]
http://www.unesco.org/bangkok/ips/ict/ict.htm
Testing times for teachers: educational assessment in South Africa
What happens when continuous assessment (CA) is added to established teaching practices? Do teachers need to rethink their current attitudes towards CA? Are teachers overly concerned with control? How can a change of attitude be encouraged? Could better assessment raise the quality of student learning? [351]
http://www.id21.org/education/e3jp1g1.html
Going head-to-head: developing headteacher support groups in Kenya
Kenyan primary schools are starting to equip themselves to promote gender equality, poverty alleviation and local economic growth. How can headteachers gain the necessary managerial and community liaison skills? Is a cascade system the best way to help them develop new expertise? What scope is there for learning from the bottom up to improve community-school partnerships? [350]
http://www.id21.org/zinter/id21zinter.exe?a=1&i;=E3ah1g1&u;=3f49ec68
Does investing in education reduce poverty? Evidence from Ghana, Uganda and South Africa
Three broad facts about education have emerged from recent research. Firstly, almost universally education is found to lift people out of poverty. Secondly, when a comparison is made between investing in education and other forms of investment, the returns from investing in education are on average lower. Thirdly, the returns to education in the sense of the increment in income that accrues to each year of education are much higher for those with higher levels of education. What factors influence these trends? [349]
http://www.id21.org/zinter/id21zinter.exe?a=0&i;=s5bft1g1&u;=3f49ec68
