Special Interest Group - Information and Communication Technologies

Contact:
David DiGregorio
USA
Email: David DiGregorio

The ICTs Team:

  • Rose Dotten, Director, Library and Information Services, University of Toronto Schools, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at University of Toronto (OISE/UT), 371 Bloor Street West, Toronto, ON M5S 2R7, Canada

Objectives:

  1. to facilitate discussion of the trends and developments in emerging technologies in education;
  2. to assist members in sharing information about their implementation of the changing instructional technology in their programs;
  3. to report on issues related to information technology which need to be discussed in the public forum.

Potential activities:

  1. provide information on current state-of-art internationally, with a focus on the critical evaluation of technology for supporting learning;
  2. provide a forum for presentation and discussion of local problems related to establishing information technology networks in schools and their application to the curriculum;
  3. provide examples of information technology policies in schools;
  4. provide curriculum case studies of the development of critical and information literacies through information technology - including discussion of approaches and evaluation;
  5. discuss process and issues related to professional development of classroom teachers;
  6. identify sources of research related to the integration of information technology in the classroom;
  7. discuss issues such as access, censorship, acceptable use policies, use of filters.

Last Updated 5 September 2007 (KSB)