" Dieses Handbuch bietet auf dem aktuellen Stand der Praxis und Forschung konkrete Impulse für die Schul- und Unterrichtsentwicklung. Dabei gehen die Autor:innen insbesondere auf die Merkmale eines kompetenzorientierten Unterrichts ein und untersuchen, inwiefern sich der Einsatz digitaler Medien sp
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eziell für dieses pädagogische Konzept anbietet. Andere Beiträge befassen sich mit Lernplattformen, Learning Analytics sowie mit Unterrichtskonzepten, die einen hybriden Einsatz digitaler und analoger Lernsettings vorsehen. Das Handbuch schließt mit einem Überblick über digitale Medien im Unterricht, gibt dazu didaktische Empfehlungen und vermittelt Ideen für die Praxis. Das Handbuch hat sich in kurzer Zeit zum Standardwerk entwickelt. Die 3. Auflage wurde vollständig aktualisiert und um neue Kapitel zu Künstlicher Intelligenz, insbesondere ChatGPT, in Schule und Unterricht ergänzt." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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"This report defines and takes the pulse of five vital elements of digital learning. It contributes to the ongoing yet urgent aim of transforming education, and offers steps to recovery through child-centered, equity-driven, and innovative solutions. The five vital elements covered are ICT in educat
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ion policies and financing, digital learning platforms and content, teachers and school leadership, digital literacy, and holistic learning opportunities within and beyond classrooms. The report calls for a whole-of-system approach to digital learning, which includes increased resources, addressing the digital and usage divides, empowering teachers and school leaders, developing digital literacy among all groups, and meeting children where they are through entertaining and educational content and a mix of technologies. Particular attention should be given to gathering more data and evidence, which are sorely lacking; centering initiatives and solutions around the needs of marginalized learners and families, especially in low- and lower-middle income countries; and ensuring a holistic approach that considers all the vitals to make digital learning safe, equitable, engaging and effective." (Publisher description)
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"This report provides an overview of how digital technologies are being used to support youth’s transition from school to work, ‘learning to earning’, in displaced and host communities. Based on a rapid analysis of emerging approaches and lessons in this burgeoning space, the report’s purpos
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e is to inspire concerted attention and action to ensure effectiveness and scale of such digital enablers. The focus of the report is on youth in forcibly displaced and host communities, though many of the solutions presented serve youth in vulnerable contexts more widely, with applicability to forcibly displaced persons (FDPs) and migrant populations more broadly. Many insights are also relevant to youth programming more generally, though efforts have been made to draw out the specific considerations for forcibly displaced youth. The report intentionally takes a global view, though the majority of solutions presented are implemented in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) regions, which coincides with the focus of the PROSPECTS Partnership. The experiences of forcibly displaced youth vary widely, across and within national boundaries. The solution landscape is also complex, involving different national and international agencies working at national and local levels. Even within countries, school-to-work transition differs according to whether forcibly displaced youth reside in camps or in resettled urban settings, and whether youth are still ‘in transit’. This report does not aim to cover these considerations in detail, though context specificities are of major relevance to solution design." (About this report, page 4)
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"Information Technology (IT) has changed the modern workplace because of its development of new knowledge and skills. E-learning is the wholesome incorporation of information and communication technology (ICT) resources, particularly the Internet, into the process of teaching and learning. Although
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this is relatively new in Nigeria, some institutions are already using it to promote distance education (DE) and lifelong learning. Thus, this study appraises the extent of the use of modern ICT in e-learning in select secondary schools in Port Harcourt, Nigeria. It employed descriptive survey with a tested questionnaire and interview guide as major instruments for data gathering. The findings confirmed that schools in Port Harcourt are just beginning to adopt ICTs as an e-learning method. It also found that the available ICT tools are not in use because the teachers are not skilled in computer application. It is therefore recommended that the government and school authorities should make provision for adequate e-learning facilities in schools and that both teachers and students should be encouraged to make use of the materials to enhance their academic performance and learning experience generally." (Abstract)
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"This World Bank study discusses secondary textbook and school library availability in Africa, its cost and financing, and its distribution and publishing. The study’s objective was to analyze the issues and provide some options and strategies for improvement. Reforms are urgently required in the
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secondary school systems of most African countries in order to: (i) reduce the number of textbooks and reference books required by secondary education curricula; (ii) reduce the unit costs of textbooks; (iii) increase the target book life thus increasing cost amortization and reducing annual textbook fees/budgets; (iv) increase the financing allocated to textbook provision from either government or parents, and (v) ensure that curricula change does not make expensive materials redundant too early or too often. The authors of the study believe that if a reliable market exists local publishing can develop to service it, even in direct competition with multinationals; and that the market does not necessarily have to be large, but that the critical factor is predictability. If publishers are confident that funding will be available, from whatever source, year after year, then local publishing will emerge to serve that market. This, it is argued, is perhaps most clearly demonstrated in Botswana where a tiny but reliable and reasonably predictable secondary school sector has five competing approved textbooks in some secondary subjects." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa, 3d ed. 2008, nr. 2556)
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"This volume provides an overall summary of the lessons learned during the implementation of the UNESCO SchoolNet project, “Strengthening the Use of ICT in Schools and SchoolNet in the ASEAN Context”, which was funded by Japanese Funds-in-Trust (JFIT) and the ASEAN Foundation. The UNESCO SchoolN
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et project succeeded in initiating new national SchoolNets, or strengthening existing SchoolNets, in eight member-countries of the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN); namely, Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Thailand and Viet Nam. The project also implemented innovative methods of using information and communication technologies (ICT) in schools and provided various types of training for teachers in the participating schools." (Preface)
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"Africa Prospect, in the opening chapter, summarizes the progress made and indicates the problems encountered and those that remain unsolved. Primary school enrolment has overshot the Addis Ababa targets. So, in many a country, has the proportion of the national budget available for financing educat
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ion. Numbers of students in secondary schools and higher educational institutions have increased. But school attendance in primary schools is still low compared with enrolment, and there is the continuing fearful waste of intellectual energy in millions of illiterates. Nevertheless, the balance is on the credit side; and this needs to be widely known, not least in Africa itself. In the following chapters the author gives accounts of projects and programmes in different fields of education being carried out in nine countries which he visited in 1965. These pictures of action are illustrative of what is happening throughout Africa. The booklet, as a whole, can be seen as a sequel to the author’s previous booklet, Africa Calls, which was written following a visit to Africa at the time of the Addis Ababa Conference, to give a wide public a general idea of the problems of educational development in Africa, of how the countries of Africa proposed to face them, and of the ways in which the international community under the leadership of Unesco could help the African countries." (Preface)
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