Focusing on ICT in Rural and Regional Education in Australia
National priorities set by an Australian ministerial taskforce provide clear guidelines to develop pedagogy that integrates ICT. Although these guidelines do not specifically address rural and regional schools needs, the two priorities: promoting pedagogic leadership and creating new learning enviro...
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| author | Reading, C. Fluck, A. Trinidad, Sue Smith, G. Shaw, G. Anderson, N. McLoughlin, C. White, B. |
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| description | National priorities set by an Australian ministerial taskforce provide clear guidelines to develop pedagogy that integrates ICT. Although these guidelines do not specifically address rural and regional schools needs, the two priorities: promoting pedagogic leadership and creating new learning environments, are of particular interest. But how are these priorities reflected in the realities of rural and regional schools? Focus group interviews were conducted at a selection of rural and regional schools in each state and territory across Australia. These provided teachers, parents and students with the opportunity to identify key issues in relation to ICT in their schools. Issues identified by the focus groups were; the state of equipment in schools, comparability between home and school ICT experiences for students, pedagogical approaches, leadership, professional development and availability of ICT specialist teachers. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-95742018-04-13T07:42:12Z Focusing on ICT in Rural and Regional Education in Australia Reading, C. Fluck, A. Trinidad, Sue Smith, G. Shaw, G. Anderson, N. McLoughlin, C. White, B. technology ICT education ICT in Regional and remote areas professional learning National priorities set by an Australian ministerial taskforce provide clear guidelines to develop pedagogy that integrates ICT. Although these guidelines do not specifically address rural and regional schools needs, the two priorities: promoting pedagogic leadership and creating new learning environments, are of particular interest. But how are these priorities reflected in the realities of rural and regional schools? Focus group interviews were conducted at a selection of rural and regional schools in each state and territory across Australia. These provided teachers, parents and students with the opportunity to identify key issues in relation to ICT in their schools. Issues identified by the focus groups were; the state of equipment in schools, comparability between home and school ICT experiences for students, pedagogical approaches, leadership, professional development and availability of ICT specialist teachers. 2006 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/9574 2647 http://www.acce.edu.au/item.asp?pid=1120 The Australian Council for Computers in Education fulltext |
| spellingShingle | technology ICT education ICT in Regional and remote areas professional learning Reading, C. Fluck, A. Trinidad, Sue Smith, G. Shaw, G. Anderson, N. McLoughlin, C. White, B. Focusing on ICT in Rural and Regional Education in Australia |
| title | Focusing on ICT in Rural and Regional Education in Australia |
| title_full | Focusing on ICT in Rural and Regional Education in Australia |
| title_fullStr | Focusing on ICT in Rural and Regional Education in Australia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Focusing on ICT in Rural and Regional Education in Australia |
| title_short | Focusing on ICT in Rural and Regional Education in Australia |
| title_sort | focusing on ict in rural and regional education in australia |
| topic | technology ICT education ICT in Regional and remote areas professional learning |
| url | 2647 2647 http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/9574 |