Education.au has just released another of its reports produced for the Strategic ICT Advisory Service it’s providing to the Australian Government Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR)
The Annual Report on Emerging Technologies: Planning for Change report is the culmination of SICTAS’ investigative research program. It incorporates and extends the recommendations made in the preceding reports and includes strategies and actions that support the recommendations.
The work of this report is informed by the tankettes, the symposium and submissions from invited peak bodies.
Extensive research is already available into particular technologies through such projects as Horizon. Accordingly, the Annual report on emerging technologies: Planning for change focuses on the implications of continuous and rapid technological change for learning and learners, for professional learning and educators, and for national infrastructure and policy makers.
The report’s recommendations highlight the Australian Government’s crucial role in providing strong and visionary leadership and coordinating development of policy and programs to support the integration of ICT in education and training. The focus is on how to leverage extensive work at national and jurisdictional levels to provide benefits for all users of education and training across Australia.
Recommendations
- Implement an ICT in teaching and learning continuum so that learners’ new media literacy skills and abilities are augmented as they move through the education sectors.
- Task a national body to support national collaborative partnerships to reduce fragmentation of effort, and make best use of the existing and future investments made in ICT.
- Commit to providing ongoing resourcing and funding to maintain, sustain and enhance a technology rich environment for the education and training sector.
- Develop and implement a national approach to software infrastructure that minimises the barriers to effective use and sharing of resources, and maximises access.
- Address the complications of Australian copyright law in a way that encourages sharing and exchange of resources in the education and training sector, including the implementation of Creative Commons across Australian education and training.
- That the Australian Government take a leadership role in collaboration with jurisdictions, sectors and educational institutions to develop a national professional learning strategy based on sound research into good practice.
- The Australian Government take a leadership role, in partnership with other education authorities and entities, in implementing and maintaining the ICT competency framework for teachers as described in the ‘Raising the Standards’ report, but look to apply this to teachers in each of the education sectors. A key component of the described framework is teacher standards. The Government should undertake to task AICTEC, through its advisory bodies to develop teacher ICT standards for:
· Pre-service teachers
· Practicing teachers
· School leaders
· Teacher educators
· VET teachers
· University teachers.
You can access all the SICTAS reports from http://www.educationau.edu.au/SICTAS
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