EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES AND APPROACHES.pptx

Graduate Studies- Masters in Educational Management

1. EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES AND APPROACHES

2. CELL PHONES Cell phone use has increased exponentially in the developing world. There are now more cell phones in use in 2nd and 3rd world nations than in the entire “developed” world. Cell phones already reach more schools than computers have or will in the next five years—and will form an essential part of any future EMIS

3. Cell phones are already used to “log” school locations and to communicate key information such as “attendance or enrollment data” to district or national offices rapidly.

4. Cell phones can also provide a relatively low cost option for communicating between users and suppliers of key school necessities. Some major journals have begun to call Cell Phones, the “computers for Africa” as just one example of the understanding of both the commercial feasibility, but as well the widespread acceptance and use of such devices.

5. TABLET COMPUTERS Tablet computers, and, to some extent “netbooks,” hold the promise of both lower cost and highly portable and adaptable instruments to place more information into more stakeholders’ hands than ever before.

6. Tablets lend themselves to classroom observation, easy presentation of graphics, can be used with minimal training, and lower the cost for moving educational information closer to the school and classroom level. They also support the Regional and National level’s need to be informed.

7. ACCESS TO WORLD WIDE WEB Increased access to the Internet is the wave of the future—every nation, with rare exception, aspires to access to the information and economic benefits that the Internet provides.

8. While it clearly has transformative effects on the culture, not all of which can be predicted, the Web is a powerful adjunct to better education systems—both administratively and academically. Its introduction in a formal system of education needs to be calibrated to enhance and not undo positive practices.

9. The Web can dramatically increase the ability to be responsive to education need and shortages—if linked to appropriate political and administrative units. Accordingly every future EMIS system needs to plan for and incorporate it as countries increase access to the Web.

10. The next ten years will see more technological and political progress capable of improving education than has occurred in the last ten years. This progress can empower students, teachers, parents and schools to be more competent than ever before.

11. . The EMIS challenge is to adapt to a much more decentralized, democratic and self-empowered education system whose demands for quality will drive the next wave of education for all.

12. Prepared by: Grace N. Polido