Implementing ICT in schools

Objective: Increasing the quality of education in secondary schools by means of integration and expansion of information and communication technology (ICT) in the teaching and training of human resources in ICT. Amplification ratio of digital culture in primary and secondary school.

General: Providing schools with educational resources and computer facilities for teaching (computers, educational software, multimedia equipment) as well as connecting these schools to the Internet and to the Electronic Network of Local Communities (RECL), directly contribute to the development of the educational environment and learning conditions. Results: increase the attractiveness of the learning process, diversifying teaching methods and practices and to move emphasis from informative to the formative. By building specific skills, students will be able to contribute actively to the value added of the educational process and to develop personal criteria for the selection and use of information.

Process progress

• Public policies for ICT integration in the pre-university environment, have been adopted formally by the Ministry of Communications and Information (MCSI) and Ministry of Education, Research and Youth (MECTI) and endorsed by the General Secretariat of the Romanian Government;

• The project to establish good practice communities was implemented between the participating schools. Results:

  • achieving a total of 12 partnership protocols between the EBC schools and the EU;

  • recording a number of256 of presentations of EBC schools on the site www.ecomunitate.ro;

  • financing a number of 9 school twinning projects with the involvment of over 35 EBC schools;

• Projects covered all regions of the country and were initiatives of schools in innovative and collaborative use of ICT resources for school development. Also, projects have motivated teachers to actively participate in professional development projects and partnerships with schools in the EBC network;

• Activities that took place during the process“ School Networking”, in order to improve project management skills and educational management, to develop relations of cooperation between schools and institutions participating in the EBC project similar to the European Space. Following experiments carried out in them, will launch an extension of the activities of the process “School Networking”, focusing on finding resources for to link formal school activities with other extracurricular activities and ICT resources.

  

• Both teachers and students had the opportunity to improve their professional experience in ICT substantially participating in the contest e-Vacanţă, has reached its 4th edition (2006, 2007, 2008, 2009). The competition was conducted in partnership with MECI and offered participants the opportunity to experiment new methods of creative learning in the virtual environment, during the summer holiday. The first 2 editions addressed schools in the pilot phase of the project, but in 2008 43 other schools joined in the beneficiary EBC communities;

  

• From the 12th to the 14th of November 2008 the national conference was held in the „Virtual environment and school partnership ” attended by over 300 teachers, who have released the results of the competition e-Holiday and shared common experiences of good practice ;

Perspectives

• Expanding participation in the national level, a process supported by the platform “eVacanta” from the portal eComunitate;

  

• Activities launched under the title “Technical support for ICT integration in EBC schools ” nclude the following components:

  • Assisting the 255 schools in EBC with integrating ICT in the educational process;

  • Developing a guide for teachers the use of ICT in Education;

  • Training of 255 teachersin developing project proposals for funding, in the benefit of the school;

  • Implementation of partnership and school networking activities;

  • Development of cultural projects for the commune libraries and EBC schools with technological assistance;

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