Information Communication Technology (ICT) is an integral component for educational development immediately and in the future. This assertion was recently made by Minister within the Ministry of Education, Ms. Nicolette Henry, when she addressed a National Centre for Educational Resource Development (NCERD)-spearheaded ICTThe recently concluded ICT forum in sessionsymposium at the Pegasus Hotel.“I am glad that Professor Wilder and the ICT team at NCERD have come together to organise this symposium, to share information and highlight innovations and practices that are emerging globally and locally to improve and enhance education delivery,” said Minister Henry.Professor Hilary Wilder is a Professor of Learning Technologies at the William Paterson University of New Jersey, where she develops and teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in educational technologies. Guyana is not the first to benefit from her expertise as she has done so in Namibia in the past.According Dr. Marcel Thomas,China Jerseys NFL, who coordinated the recently concluded symposium,Cheap NFL Jerseys, its purpose was to get the ICT teachers on board with creating content, and to show them how easy it is to create local content that can be placed into applications that can be easily uploaded and accessed by their students.“We challenged the teachers; we laid it out for them; we gave them the guidelines and placed them in groups and asked them to create,” said Dr. Thomas.Teachers who attended the symposium came from schools countrywide, with the exception of Regions One and Eight. Dr. Thomas said that by the end of the two-day forum, which commenced on Tuesday, the teachers,Wholesale Jerseys Free Shipping, divided into 12 groups, were able to prepare ICT-based lessons complete with animations. “It was amazing…They did the whole spectrum. They did social issues which included a lesson on suicide; one group did Diwali…and they made it in the context where a child from Georgetown moved to the hinterland and was trying to explain to the children there what was Diwali.“One group did Mathematics and another did the digestive system, complete with graphics and animations…It was amazing,” said Dr. Thomas.She therefore concluded that “we actually achieved the objective of the workshop which was to make IT teachers the change agents so that when they go back into their schools they can help the other teachers to create apps and story boards.“It doesn’t need to be a big thing where you need a programmer or somebody special to come from overseas to show them how to do this.”According to Professor Wilder even as Guyana seeks to embrace technological advances there is no need for reliance or content from overseas. “They can create their own that’s relevant to the children, and contextualised linguistically and culturally,China Jerseys Wholesale,” said Professor Wilder.Making specific reference to the just concluded forum, she added,China Jerseys, “This is a big start and I was totally amazed at how these teachers just took that challenge and ran with it.”She said that realising the desired goal would take some time.But Professor Wilder is prepared for the long haul. In fact her collaboration with the local public education sector is nothing new and is expected to be sustained.? “If there are some good change-agents and you have some really good support…you can leapfrog. There is no reason why you have to follow this model of putting in computer labs for example, when all of the children are getting access and communicating and collaborating and creating on their smart phones,Wholesale Adidas Hockey Jerseys,” noted Professor Wilder.“Why not leapfrog that and start using the devices that they are familiar with, that more and more people have access to. There has also been the notion that the Guyanese children, the Guyanese teachers can create the content and contribute to the global knowledge space,” added Professor Wilder.She said that she is very satisfied with the outcome of the symposium.