Training for Trainers

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Training for Trainers

• The Hague - June 4-16, 2000
• Bruce Girard
  Arjan de Jager
• ltbgirard_at_comunica.orggt
  ltjager_at_iicd.orggt

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Objectives

• To gain familiarity with methodologies, concepts
  and tools for self-directed and lifelong
  instruction and learning
• To gain familiarity with the scheduling, design
  and logistics of a training activity, including
  assessing training needs, test procedures, and
  certification procedures

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Objectives - 2

• To share the knowledge gained - we will do this
  by producing model training programmes and
  technical update seminars and developing a series
  of templates and guidebooks that can be used for
  preparing future training activities, by our own
  institutions or by other IICD partners
• To exchange knowledge and information with other
  IICD partners, leading to greater co-operation

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Methodology

• Presentations and discussion
• in-house and guest experts
• Projects
• Model training activity
• choose from five scenarios
• Model technical update seminar

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• "I think there is a world market for maybe five
  computers."
• Thomas Watson Chairman of IBM, 1943

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ICT Lifelong Learning Skills

• Information and Communication Technology includes
  a range of technologies used to support
  communication and information. ICT covers the
  areas of both networks and applications.

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ICT Lifelong Learning Skills

• The average North American household contains
  more computing power than existed in the world in
  1965.

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ICT Lifelong Learning Skills

• One single fibre less than 0.1 mm in diameter can
  carry the equivalent of 30,000 simultaneous
  telephone conversations.

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ICT Lifelong Learning Skills
Who is participating in the information
revolution?

• 195 million people on line
• Canada/USA - 107.3 million
• Europe - 46.4 million
• Asia/Pacific - 33.6 million
• Latin America Caribbean - 5.3 million
• Africa - 1.7 million
• Middle East - 0.9 million

Source http//www.nua.ie/surveys/how_many_online
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ICT Lifelong Learning Skills

• But what is it good for?
• - IBM engineer, 1968
• commenting on the microchip

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ICT Lifelong Learning Skills

• although the costs of using ICTs are high, the
  cost of not doing so are likely to be much
  higher.
• Knowledge SocietiesUNCSTD - IT Working Group

http//www.sussex.ac.uk/spru/ink/knowledge.html
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ICT Lifelong Learning Skills

• the capacity to acquire and generate knowledge
  in all its forms, including the recovery and
  upgrading of traditional knowledge, is perhaps
  the most important factor in the improvement of
  the human condition.

http//www.sussex.ac.uk/spru/ink/knowledge.html
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ICT Lifelong Learning Skills

• Challenges to the Network Internet for
  Development

This report, by the International
Telecommunications Union, examines the
possibilities offered by the Internet in health,
education and commerce.
http//www.itu.int
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ICT Lifelong Learning Skills
World Development Report 98/99 Knowledge for
Development

• This report looks at information, communication
  and knowledge gaps between the developed and
  developing world and ways of narrowing the gap.

http//www.worldbank.org/wdr/wdr98/
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ICT Lifelong Learning Skills
Human Development Report 1999 Globalization with
a Human Face

• New information and communications technologies
  are driving globalization - but polarizing the
  world into the connected and the isolated.

http//www.undp.org/hdro/
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ICT Lifelong Learning Skills

• There is no reason anyone would want a computer
  in their home.
• Ken Olson, Chairman, President and Founder of
  Digital Equipment Corporation, 1977

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Lifelong Learning
ICT Lifelong Learning Skills

• A strategy for effective ICT use

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The impact of the computer will not produce an
incremental change but will lead to entirely
different learning systems.
ICT Lifelong Learning Skills
Alfred Bork
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Characteristics of Formal Education
ICT Lifelong Learning Skills

• Inflexible time and place dependent programs
• Design, development and delivery by teacher
• Students travel to the school
• Fact based rather than process or problem
  orientation

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Problem-Based Learning
ICT Lifelong Learning Skills

• Learners participate in setting their own
  objectives - active learning
• Student-to-student dialogue taps the expanding
  knowledge of working adults
• Teacher as facilitator
• Learners are involved in design and are a source
  of content

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Fluency with Information Technology FITness
ICT Lifelong Learning Skills

• Requires three kinds of knowledge
• Contemporary skills
• Foundational Concepts
• Intellectual Capabilities

http//bob.nap.edu/beingfluent/
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FITness Intellectual capabilities
ICT Lifelong Learning Skills

• The ability to apply ICT in complex and sustained
  situations. Problem solving.
• Capabilities allow you to manipulate the
  technology to your advantage.
• Capabilities enable you to handle unexpected
  problems when they arise.

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FITness Foundational concepts
ICT Lifelong Learning Skills

• The basic principles and ideas of computers,
  networks and ICT.
• Concepts explain the how and why of technology
  and let us see its opportunities and limitations.
  
• Concepts are the raw material for understanding
  ICT as it evolves.

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FITness Contemporary skills
ICT Lifelong Learning Skills

• The ability to use todays computer applications.
• Skills are essential for many jobs.
• More importantly, skills provide a store of
  practical knowledge on which to build new
  competence.

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ICT Lifelong Learning Skills

• 640K ought to be enough for anybody.
• Bill Gates, 1981