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Curriculum

  • Curriculum


    • Where do you look for ICT in Education curriculum support? Many national education authorities have identified the use of ICT as a critical cross-cutting requirement in all grades and subjects. Some countries have even incorporated suggestions about how ICT should be integrated into subject syllabi. In those countries for example, the Physical Science syllabus has suggestions about how ICT can be used to acquire the subject's specific outcomes. Sometimes advice about how ICT might be used is written into teacher subject guides and is taught at teacher training colleges. Your first stop is to identify if such support has been incorporated into your country's syllabi.

    • Activity 1

      1. Using the internet browser access the Giakonda Solar School's website that has collected the Zambian curricula documents
      2. Identify and access the section of the site where they have organized digital versions of the curriculum. This exercise is important as you need to be familiar with where these critical documents are hosted. You will need to visit the site from time to time to access the latest versions.
      3. Within the learning area/topic/grade you teach, access the appropriate curriculum documents.
      4. Now investigate in what ways the education ministry has made reference to ICT use within these official documents, if at all!
      5. Review the following articles on availability of ICT in rural areas on p11 of the Education in Zambia magazine (June 2022 edition) and the latest ZICTA data.


    • Activity 2

      Create a post in the forum below. Based on your Internet research of your national education authority's website and documentation, do you feel that there is sufficient guidance on:

      1. What role ICT is supposed to play within your learning area/subject/grade? [Note: Many Zambian subject syllabi do make explicit reference to ICT e.g. Grade 9 Mathematics, does yours?]
      2. Specific advice on how to integrate ICT into your learning area/subject/grade? 

      See what others have posted and reply to at least two posts.



    • Below is an example of a teacher guide that encourages the use of ICT as a component of the teaching and learning. This example comes from South Africa.


    • Use this link below to see the entire document.

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