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LESSON 3: EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY IN THE

LESSON 3: EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY IN THE ASIA PACIFIC REGION

A.     Summary

To provide confidence to educators that they are taking the right steps in adopting technology in
education, it is good to know that during the last few years, progressive countries in the Asian Pacific
region have formulated state policies and strategies to infuse technology In school. The reason for thus
move is not difficult to understand since there is now a pervasive awareness that nation’s socio-
economic success in the 21st century is linked to how well it can complete in a global Information and
Communication technology (ICT) region. This imperative among nations has therefore given tremendous
responsibilities on educators to create an educational technology environment in schools. And since it is
understood that the state policies will continue to change, it is helpful to examine prevailing ICT policies
and strategies of five progressive states/city, namely; New Zealand, Australia, Malaysia, Singapore, and
Hong Kong.

New Zealand

The government with the education and technology sectors, community groups, and industry
envisions supporting to the development of the capability of schools to use information and
communication technologies in the teaching and learning and in administration. Their strategy is to
improve learning outcomes for students using ICT to support the curriculum. And they focus in
infrastructure for increasing schools access to ICTs to enhance education.

Australia

In the Adelaide declaration and national goals for goals for schools, information technology is
one of the eight national goals/learning areas students should achieve. Students should be confident,
creative and productive users of new technologies, particularly ICTs, and understand the impact of these
technologies on society. The plans for achieving the national goal for IT are left to individual states and
territories with Educational Network Australia (EdNa) as the coordinating and advisory body.
 Malaysia

Technology plays many roles in Smart school from facilitating teaching-and-learning activities to
assisting with school management. Fully equipping a school includes; classrooms with multimedia,
presentation facilities, e-mail, and groupware for collaborative work, and library media center with
database for multimedia courseware and network access to internet.

Singapore

The master plan has four key dimensions;

1.      curriculum and assessment

2.      learning resources

3.      teaching development

4.      physical and technological infrastructure

Hong Kong

Government raises the quality of school education by promoting the use of IT in teaching and
learning. The IT initiatives are; on average, 40 computers for each primary school and 82 computers for
each secondary school, and about 85,000 IT training places for each teacher at four levels.

B.     Experience

In the above summary, we really can tell that technology has already penetrated the education
system. It really improved the teaching-learning process of the five developing countries. Here in the
Philippines, public schools lack of proper facilities in integrating technology in the teaching-learning
process, even private schools do not have that proper technology just like the five countries above.

As a product of a public school, I can really testify that Philippines are really far behind
compared to the other countries. Government has allotted big budget for the Department of Education
but despite of the big budget, still, public schools do not have that proper facilities. Yes, some public
schools has the computer laboratory and with a few units of computers, where user and computer has
ration of 5:1. This is a sad reality that is experiencing in most public schools in the Philippines.

C.     Reflection

As stated in the summary above, government is really supporting each school to really pursue,
the integration of technology in Education system. They really are the one who wants to improve their
education system, which is a big help to the students. For this will really give them a proper training.
 In the Philippines, this is the problem because we lack the support from our government which
is the one who can really help us in achieving this kind of improvements. We are really far behind when
we talk about technology, most specially in the public schools; students don’t know how to manipulate
computers. Some of them, instead of using the computer as educational resources, this is use in a way
that students will lost in their attention to learning. Some of them use the technology as their past time
by playing in the computer instead of researching their assignment.

This is the reason why some of the teachers who are not enrolled in educational technology
subject, do not allowed the school to integrate technology in the teaching-learning process, because this
they understand. Other reason also is that, they are afraid that computers might replace teachers in the
future.

D.     Application

Our government should adapt that idea that we need to improve our educational system here in the
Philippines. Teachers also should need to be open minded in accepting that technology will really
improve our education system, to achieve the successful teaching-learning process.
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