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Main topicsThe Four in Balance Monitor is published annually by Kennisnet andconcerns the use and benefits of ICT in Dutch education. The Monitoris based on independent research and looks at primary, secondaryand vocational education and training. Below, we summarize themain topics covered in the 2011 Monitor.Benefits• ICT can make teaching/learning more efficient, more effective, andmore interesting.• ICT use has become commonplace in teaching in recent years.Nevertheless, increasing ICT use does not necessarily lead to betterresults. The more powerful ICT becomes and the more options it offersfor improving the quality of education, the more crucial the teacher’srole becomes.• The benefits of ICT depend largely on the presence of a teacher who isable to link the subject matter, the ICT application, and the pupil.Use by teachers• Three quarters of teachers use computers during lessons. This numberhas increased by 2 to 3% in recent years.• Teachers spend an average of 8 hours a week using computers in theirlessons, and that figure is expected to increase within three years byapproximately 40%, to 11 hours a week. In addition, they spend another7 hours a week on average doing school-related work on their homecomputer.• The ICT applications used most often in teaching are the Internet,practice programs, word processing software and electronic learningenvironments. Games and Web 2.0 are used the least.6Use by pupils• Teachers believe that the number of hours that pupils can spendworking at a computer at school is limited to between 1.5 and 3 hoursa day. Teachers believe that pupils can spend a further 7 to 12 hours aweek on computer-based learning activities outside of school.• It is wrongly assumed that youngsters are so skilful with computers
main topicsthat schools do not need to teach them how to search for and selectinformation on the Internet. Many pupils have a difficult time using ICTresponsibly, critically, and creatively as a learning tool.• The majority of pupils in vocational education and training take theirown laptops with them to school. This happens much less in secondaryeducation, and scarcely at all in primary school.Vision• Knowledge transfer is the most common teaching method today, and willremain so in the future. Teachers and school managers expect that ICTwill be used most frequently for purposes of knowledge transfer.• Knowledge construction will become more common in education in thefuture. Teachers and school managers believe that ICT will support thistrend.• Teachers assume that they will continue teaching largely without thesupport of ICT. School managers think otherwise, however; they expectthat within three years’ time, teachers will be using ICT in most of theirlessons.Expertise• Two thirds of teachers feel that they are sufficiently or more thansufficiently familiar with the various options that ICT can offer them intheir teaching.• School managers say that eight out of ten teachers have satisfactorytechnical ICT skills; for example, they can use a word processingprogram and the Internet.• School managers estimate that almost six out of ten teachers havemastered the pedagogical skills they need to use ICT in their teaching.Digital learning materials• Teachers mainly use standard office applications such as wordprocessing programs and e-mail. Slightly more than half of teachers alsoused software associated with a course/coursebook or a subject-specificprogram.• A fourth of all learning material is digital. Teachers expect that thisshare will increase considerably in the years ahead.• Approximately a third of teachers occasionally develop their own digital7
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