Consultative workshop ICT textbook september2016

Background

The objective of the Telangana state education department is to integrate technology into teaching and learning in sustained and meaningful ways. The department is focused on upgrading the school labs in 3,000 schools with a digital lab and digital resources. In this context, it is proposed:

1. to evolve a meaningful curriculum for students,
2. to develop appropriate school level teaching learning resources (including textbooks, handbooks and other materials for students and teachers) and
3. to implement teacher training and develop teacher materials

SCERT has decided to adopt the ICT curriculum developed by NCERT as the basis for the text book, which leverages the possibilities of ICTs for connecting and learning and creating and learning. The textbook will be used by the school teachers for transacting the ICT curriculum in classes 8 to 10 and will also have linkages to the regular school subject curriculum. In a consultation conducted in February with NCERT-CIET, HBSCE, ITfC, SCERT members and a core group of teachers, a plan was developed for the creation of student textbook and teacher handbook. Subsequently, Telangana participated in a consultative meeting held in RIE Mysuru, by CEMCA, for collaboration on programs on ICT in Education. In view of CEMCA's experience in the area of OER creation, the Telangana Department of School Education has invited CEMCA to support the creation of ICT textbook and handbook, as above, with ITfC as an implementation partner. This consultative workshop is to approve the framework, scope and approach for ICT textbook for the first year, and develop an approach for OER creation, review and publishing.

Objectives of the workshop

There are three focus areas of this workshop and the objectives have been proposed accordingly:

1. Development of a plan and approach for the development of the ICT textbook and handbook
   1. To approve the framework and approach to be taken for the textbook, the syllabus and proposed content for Year 1 of the ICT student textbook and teacher/teacher educator – including the linkages between student textbook and teacher handbook
   2. To identify the core skills and competencies to be built for digital literacy and to understand how they can be aligned with the Telangana academic standards
   3. To approve the broad scope of the syllabus for the three years of the textbook, in line with the National ICT curriculum, with a project based approach
   4. To develop an approach for linking topics from the core subject areas with the ICT syllabus
2. To develop criteria, processes and framework for OER adoption in the state
3. To develop a broad shared understanding of the implementation approach for the ICT syllabus and integrating it with the teacher training program

1. Workshop participants
2. Read the Working Note - Consultative workshop for ICT textbook Sep 16-17 for Telangana here
3. Read the Report - Consultative workshop for ICT textbook Sep 16-17 for Telangana here