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CAROLINE Otieno Post 1

• 19 July 2020, 3:59 PM

Teacher Education

The teacher of the 21st century should be re branded in order to fit well with technology since most of them were never trained on how to use computers.It has given most teachers a nightmare learning new tricks at an advanced age with very little or no preparation at all.

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Kris Stutchbury Post 2 in reply to 1

• 19 July 2020, 9:55 PM

Caroline - I think you are right. Here in the UK, many schools have had to teach online during the recent lockdown. Where there is good access to equipment, the greatest need has been for teacher training. The UNESCO ICT Competency framework is a useful way for thinking about the skills teachers need. 

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Franci Mureithi Post 4 in reply to 2

• 20 July 2020, 1:56 AM

UNESCO ICFT

Chris- You are lucky the system of education and the level of national development favours institutions and individuals to implement the UNESCO ICF to a great extent. In our country there's gaping digital divides which hamper educators to teach engage with learner's outside the classroom. Some are trying but if course using thier own resources and in a totally unstructured unregulated manner which archive little, even to the few who can access digital infrastructure to learn or reach from home.

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Franci Mureithi Post 3 in reply to 1

• 20 July 2020, 1:45 AM

Teacher education

The ICT policy in education in Kenya emphasize a lot on use of educational technology but in practice it has been left to the discretion of the teacher's themselves on when and how to use it in teaching. A bit of an unfortunate situation. Right now everyone sees the need for gaining basic knowledge in ICT use for education, age or not. It's a personal challenge we must take, and with an attitude that we can achieve.

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Bashiru Saliu Post 5 in reply to 1

• 20 July 2020, 11:50 AM

This is a true deflection of what is even happening here on this platform, as some of us are struggling to catch up , hundred of our colleagues can't can not even try 1/5 of what we are doing yet we all complain

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Chimdiebere Joseph Post 6 in reply to 1

• 27 August 2020, 12:53 PM
Very true. The world itself has changed, So, there's great need for reinventing and rebranding, to fit in, to the world's standard.
Discussion tags: ict, ict and teacher education, unesco ict framework