2003 Volume 27 Issue 1 Pages 23-36
This study aims to examine the effective ways to introduce ICT integrated education to teachers of middle standing and how the attributes of those teachers relate to the effect. We presented slides, attended by two hundred participants, based on the training curriculum proposed in the previous study. Following the lecture, we found that the following points were important to promote better understanding on the ICT integrated education : 1. The purposes to foster students' problem solving ability are to be clarified ; 2. The necessity of explicit instruction on the ways of viewing the subject is to be clarified ; 3. The difference between ICT education and computer science education is to be clarified ; 4. The difference between ICT as educational contents and ICT as instructional tools is to be clarified ; 5. Concrete examples on "the ability of using ICT for problem solving" should be provided. The results indicated that the teachers have not yet had common understanding on ICT education and the ways to integrate it to their classes ; therefore, it is essential to transmit the concept of ICT education clearly. Additionally, it was shown that the acceptance of "new concepts" to foster students' problem solving ability is prerequisite to motivate those teachers to introduce ICT education within the current subject area. Thus, we plan to further study the ways to design presentation according to teachers' attributes.
