Course:EDCP470 951 2010/How do we know/ICT barriers affordances opportunities
Post your factors, barriers, affordance, and opportunity here -
Factor | Barrier | Affordance | Opportunity |
Culture | Language use | Shaping opinion | Language transformation
Cultural values
Table by: Peter O., Scott S., Michael C. and James Z.
Edison, Rosemary, John
Melina, Rong, Shokat
| How do we know? By Jodie + Tim | Barriers | Affordances | Opportunities |
| Hardware/Device | Funding | allocation of funding | recycled hardware |
| obsoletion rate (new technologies introduced quickly) | government grants | ||
| maintenance knowledge (break = no repairs but replace) | fundraising | ||
| competency (understanding of “mechanics” of hardware) | |||
| Software App | Funding for license (yearly renewal for multiple programs) | - | open source (VLC player) |
| rate of new developments (programs become obsolete within years) | web based programs | ||
| competency/ training | collaboration and professional development | ||
| system requirements (new programs require processing speed and memory) | |||
| Practice/Culture | Lack of cultural capital around ICT | teachers attitudes towards ICT | creative integration |
| digital divides (eg/ age, socioeconomic) | consistency in schools with ICT usage between teachers | community education and integration in ICT dialogue | |
| different needs (should each school plan around their own needs? Should it be district? Ministry? | |||
| Politics | allocation | democracy in schools | collaboration with other teachers |
| credible research on ICT effectiveness | discussion/dialogue | ||
| budget driven | |||
| laziness | |||
| top down system | |||
| Environment/ Sustainability | profit driven industry (replace over repair) | student involvement | recycling programs |
| shelf-life | sustainability awareness | ||
| power requirements (electricity) | |||
| lack of recycling programs | |||
| production and transport |
Bruce, Paula, Myra, Kathleen, Sian
Hardware What are barriers? - short life span/the relative cost, - don’t have access to equipment I need (ie projector)
Affordances of cost? What is it that is leading us to the inadequate resources? problem solving meeting? - to come up with a plan to share a resource if admin will buy for us what can we do to deal with the issue?
Opportunities? -collaboration, communication, taking action to solve this problem -to connect to the real world -allows students to demonstrate learning in a different way, support differentiated instruction, using equipment that is outside the classroom and helps to prepare them for “the real world” with necessary skills to succeed.
Software Barrier
- cost of licensing for a school
Affordance - approach PAC, admin to lobby trustees Opportunity - approach district about getting reduced bulk licensing
Practice Barrier - time to learn
Affordance - meet to brainstorm ways to create time
Opportunity - peer mentoring, collaboration