1. East Asian Experience in Integration of ICT in Schools Lessons learned and recent trends Michael Trucano Sr. ICT & Education Specialist The World Bank New Delhi: 28 May 2009

2. ICTs in Education

3. ICTs = information & communication technologies computers Internet phones radio TV devices

5. photo opportunities

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8. strategic choices for education reform

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10. Michael Trucano Sr. ICT & Education Specialist Education Sector World Bank

11. help the World Bank and its development partners …

12. “Get smart”

13. “Get smarter”

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15. appropriate

16. relevant

17. effective

18. and, just as importantly…

19. inappropriate

20. irrelevant

21. ineffective

22. uses of technologies

23. to aid a variety of developmental objectives

24. especially in education!

25. What do we know about using technology in education in developing countries?

26. What do we know about using technology effectively in education in developing countries?

27. Do they help make schools more productive and efficient than they currently are? transform teaching and learning into an engaging and active process connected to real life? prepare the current generation of young people for the future workplace?

28. how do we know?

29. goals and caveats

32. “I believe that the Internet is destined to revolutionize our educational system and that in a few years it will supplant largely, if not entirely, the use of textbooks. It is possible to touch every branch of human knowledge through the Internet.”

33. “I believe that the motion picture is destined to revolutionize our educational system and that in a few years it will supplant largely, if not entirely, the use of textbooks. It is possible to touch every branch of human knowledge through the motion picture.” -- Thomas Edison 1922

34. what has changed?

35. PRICES

39. (magic price: $100)

40. secondary student population

44. innovations

47. innovations in marketing

48. (corporate) mindsets

49. drawing on …

50. research initiatives

51. Critical Review of ICT and Education in the Caribbean & Africa (75 country reports) + South Asia ICT Components in World Bank education projects Monitoring & Evaluation of ICT in Education Initiatives ICTs and Teacher Professional Development ICT & education indicators M&E of NEAPD e-Schools Low cost ICT devices in education (including mobile phones)

53. ICT in Education Toolkit for Policymakers, Planners & Practitioners infoDev – UNESCO used in 28 countries to date, 200 requests for use since launch www.ICTinEDtoolkit.org

54. World Bank education projects

55. “Technology is revolutionizing education everywhere but in the classroom”

56.  East Asia

57. Certain realities These sorts of investments are not made solely on economic grounds; treating them as such misses the mark. Decisions to buy PCs are fueled as much by aspiration as by evidence -- and economics. In many cases, prices have fallen to a point where countries are saying “we can finally do this”. (MOE Guyana: “We used to be out of the game, now we can join”) Technology and infrastructure issues drive the process, at least at the start.

58. ICT as an icon and engine of innovation

59. some key findings

60. impact of ICT use on learning outcomes and future employment is unclear, and open to much debate absence of widely accepted standard methodologies and indicators to assess impact disconnect between the rationales most often put forward to advance the use of ICTs in education and their actual implementation a. impact

61. very little useful data on the cost of ICT in education initiatives, especially those attempting to assess Total Cost of Ownership, nor guidance on how to conduct cost assessments. b. costs

62. c. use ICTs are being increasingly used in education, even in the most challenging environments

63. for better AND for worse

64. d. lessons learned and best practice emerging best practices and lessons learned in a number of areas, but with a few exceptions (notably on ‘schoolnet’ development and general lessons learned), they have not been widely disseminated nor packaged into formats easily accessible to policy makers in developing countries, and have not been explicitly examined in the context of the education-related MDGs

65. ICTs are being increasingly used in education, even in the most challenging environments in developing countries

66. New Phases: From Pilot Projects to Policies to Scale

67. NGOs and private sector leading the way

68. Increasing demand from client countries

69. for better AND for worse

70. 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 renewed explosion of interest in providing low-cost computing ‘devices’ to consumers in developing countries -- especially in education markets

71. Start work by asking: “How can ICT be done right?” not “Should ICT be done at all?”

72. infrastructure training content skills pedagogy efficiency M&E policy

73. evolution

74. access

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76. relevance

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78. quality

79. access  relevance  quality

80. access  relevance  quality

81. quality relevance access

82. quality China relevance Malaysia access Korea Singapore Philippines

83. South Korea

84. broadband digital learning resources

85. infrastructure-centric, location-specific to infrastructure-enabling, device agnostic

86. Singapore

87. ICT for education reform intense monitoring

88. The Philippines

89. PPPs (GILAS) link with telecoms schoolnet mobile phones

90. Malaysia

91. SmartSchools PPPs & alignment with industry

92. China

93. Distance Education Project for the Alleviation of Rural Poverty Project EU – China Gansu Basic Education Project World Links - China

94. focus on the teacher global standards multiple technologies

95. infrastructure training content skills pedagogy efficiency M&E policy

96. What might this mean for India?

97. Will (how can) ICTs help make schools more productive and efficient than they currently are? transform teaching and learning into an engaging and active process connected to real life? prepare the current generation of young people for the future workplace?

98. more information: www.infodev.org/education www.worldbank.org/education/ict blog: blogs.worldbank.org/edutech follow us on Twitter @WBedutech mtrucano@worldbank.org