ICT Resourcing Framework

ICT Potencial

ICT has the potential to bring about improvements in educational outcomes for all 21st century learners. To achieve this, however, it is vital that ICT becomes better integrated with teaching and learning. Successful integration requires schools to plan and develop ICT systems around the needs of their students, teachers and their organisation (customisation). This needs to be combined with an understanding of effective teaching practice and ongoing access to high quality professional development.

Ensuring all students  the oportunity to became confident and capable user of ICT, is also an important aim.

The role schools are now playing in preparing students to succeed in an increasingly technological age and "skill driven" labour market is ongoing. In addition to the foundation skills of literacy and numeracy, students now need a wide range of competencies suited to the digital age and the knowledge society.

Further, schools are increasingly using ICT for administrative purposes and to manage their organisations. Also, the ministry is increasingly using ICT to improve business processes and the flow of information between schools and the centre. This has driven-up the demand for ICT across the sector.

Background 

• There are differences in the quality of ICT across the sector
• The management of ICT is an issue for some schools
• The ability to use ICT for educational purposes can be improved upon, and
• Schools are under increasing pressure to increase the quantity and quality of the ICT.

The review concluded that in order to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of ICT, and to address the issues identified above and the challenges the sector may face in the future, a forward looking framework for the resourcing of ICT across the schooling sector should be developed.

The Racionale

Underpinning the development of the resourcing framework and linked to the government's ICT Strategic Framework for Education are six fundamental principles that have been developed in consultation with the ICT Advisory Group:

(a) ICT can be used to bring about improvements in educational outcomes by supporting effective teaching

(b) all  Mexican students should be able to access ICT at school and have the opportunity to become confident and capable users of ICT

(c) schools are, in the first instance, best placed to make resource allocation decisions in regard to their ICT needs

(d) the role of the ministry is to resource schools for an appropriate level of ICT and to oversee the development of efficient and effective ICT systems within schools and across the sector

(e) strategic planning can improve the integration of ICT with teaching and learning and encourage a more sustainable approach to the management of ICT, and

(f) ICT can improve the efficiency and effectiveness of educational administration both at the school level and across the system as a whole.

The principles identified above highlight the range of benefits that ICT can generate and help to clarify and delineate the role of schools and the ministry in the provision of ICT across the schooling sector.

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