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for example, or learn skills in a simulation. In this group, changes in thematerial and human factors are mutually dependent.3. Schools that wish to use ICT to innovate their teaching practicesThese are schools that wish to make major changes in their pedagogicalapproach in a short amount of time. To put as much distance aspossible between themselves and the past, they sometimes establish a“greenfield” site. Such schools typically introduce new teaching methodsthat would be virtually impossible without ICT, for example collaborativelearning in the cloud.Chapter 2 shows that ICT can be effective in each of the above cases. We willlook more closely at these three groups in next year’s Monitor.9.2 Use leadership to involve followersSchools are not yet making the most of the potential of ICT. They appear tohave landed in a transitional phase marking the passage between ICT useby individual pioneers and systematic ICT integration by the entire schoolteam. Support is also shifting from the pioneers to the followers (Chapter8). The pioneers have an affinity with the technology and feel that thetechnical facilities offer enough support; the followers, on the other hand,also want support for their professional development and for their effortsto develop a shared vision (Ten Brummelhuis, 2011).A transition of this kind makes demands on the management’s leadershipability. School managers have an enormous influence on teacherproductivity and pupil performance (Marzano, 2005; Pont, 2008). Whenleadership is lacking, it seems, teachers will not feel the necessarycommitment and make inadequate use of ICT. Strong leadership can havea positive impact on pupil results by showing hesitant teachers just howeffective ICT can be (Timperley, 2008). It stresses the human rather thanthe material factors (Chapter 8) and in doing so supports a larger numberof teachers.76
9 - From ICT use to more effective teaching9.3 Formalize professional useTeachers must be familiar with what ICT can and cannot do. Studies showthat ICT can have positive, neutral, and negative effects; indeed, inexpertuse of ICT can even cause pupil performance to deteriorate (see Chapter 2).To optimize the positive effects and minimize the negative ones, teachersneed to know what works and what does not.More and more foreign teacher training programs and schools are includingpedagogical ICT skills on the list of professional competencies thatgraduates and teachers are expected to master. This is still very rare in theNetherlands, and when it does happen, the arrangements are school-specificones (see Chapter 8). Making such competencies a formal requirement inteacher training programs will shorten the amount of time it takes forteachers to adopt ICT applications that have a positive impact on pupilresults. Teacher training programs should take the lead in this.9.4 Link teacher, pupil, and subject matter in a digitallearning environmentAll too often, however, teachers are not required to use digital learningmaterials in their lessons. The teacher and the digital learning materialsare two relatively isolated components, comparable to the relationshipbetween teacher and teaching method.Increasingly, however, we are seeing digital learning environments thatlink teacher, pupil, and subject matter. Teachers are no longer separatefrom the environment; instead, they play a role within that environment.It should be noted that such environments are not surrogate teachers orstorage spaces for learning materials; they are digital environments thatprovide comprehensive support for teaching/learning and give teachersas much scope as possible to fulfill their core duty, i.e. to create the rightconditions for learning.The digital learning environment connects learning at school (formallearning) and learning outside of school (informal learning). In doing so, itincreases pupils’ opportunities to learn. By studying more, pupils achieveconsiderably better results. Indeed, pupils are now spending more time77
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