This session is about School context and innovation and can be divided into several parts: School background,School strategies,Principal leadership,School ICT infrastructure and Government and community support.
We group first analyzed the example from the SITES-ME. We forcused on the ES001: Cooperrative Project Using Telecommunication Tools to Study the Climate and Weather. Four schools participated in this innovative co-operative project. Every weekday, pupils from different schools had to share introduce meteorological data in the Internet to them with the partner schools. Then they finally carried out comparative research projects on weather variables. This project had various objectives, from conceptual learning, mastery of use of different measurement tools, handling and making sense of data to facilitation of cooperative learning with virtual cooperative groups. Teachers provided suggestions and guidance for students learning, whereas students working in groups made the final decisions of what they wanted to learn and how they were going to do. The school background of this case is a strong educational vision and experience in Innovation and ICT use. This is also a case with strategies in establishing new teams for implementation, with visionary leader, with mobile computing capability and student access beyond class contact and general government policy support appeared to be relatively emergent in terms of teachers' and students' roles.
Besides, we have done some reach about the School context and innovation of mainland China and found that most school backgrounds of the schools in mainland China are council schools and alignment with government education policy. The schools forcus more on exam scores than ICT or innovation and have a traditional pedagogical practices. Though some of the principals agree with the innovation in education, they pay more attention to that if the students can pass the Matriculation Exam. This schools do have the ICT infrastructure but the use of ICT in education is just a face job and teachers care more about publishing papers rather than using ICT in teaching. Also, the government has the policy to support the innovation in school. However, as the college entrance examination system in mainland is not change, principals and teachers still prefer the traditional pedagogy.
Here is a web side about characteristics of the Higher Education in Mainland China: http://international.vlex.com/vid/characteristics-education-mainland-taiwan-228050335
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Good Information about educational practices i China. Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteYes, in Mianland China exam is the most thing teacher, parents and student concern. Take my previous school as an example. My school do have some innovative practices, such as teaching online, but we don't always act the innovative practices. Those innovative practices were just a kind of fresh for us to experience occasionally. Actually, the innovation can not be integrated to our daily study and just not close enough to us. Only one classes a semester or in some open classes did we allowed to study in innovative environment. And learn with the traditional ways in last of the semester. May be it was the financial problem that the school can not afford all the students or the technique problem that not enough experts can teach with innovative practices.All in all, the ICT implementation in Mainland China is still at the very beginning period in prevalent.
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ReplyDeleteI studied in mainland China for almost 16 years, teaching method there is almost the traditional way that teachers saying while students listening. I think whether we introduce ICT in T&L or not, there is one point we should always remember that the real purpose of education is to stimulate people's initiative in absorbing, digesting and accumulating the knowledge. While, using technology in education is just an aided tool to enhance teaching and learning, but not our final goal. However in mainland China, most teachers use high technology only to beautify their teaching methods, student still act as an audience but not an actor.
ReplyDeleteI think the most important measure to education development in mainland China is to break such spoon-feed teaching method, especially in higher education. It is high time to change our attitude towards the teaching and learning. And only by solving this problem can ICT play its due role in education.