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Forum on “The Impact of ICT in our life" 2004-2005

Execution schedule
Full description of project
participating groups
Leading questions
Indicators of quality
Evaluation Criteria
To accomplish a complete project
Guidance for teachers
Guidance on Evaluation
Evaluation Assesment

Leading Questions
Name of Project: “The Impact of ICT in our life"

Partnership: Ministry Of Education and Higher Education, Microsoft and iEARN Lebanon

Brief one-sentence description of project:

Develop critical thinking in youth to reflect upon the impact of ICT on different aspects of their life such as culture, environment, tradition, society, health, education, quality of life, national development and others.

Forums: This online discussion Forum will be part of the iEARN Lebanon and SchoolNet Lebanon Forums.

top Execution schedule  : The execution of the project will begin in December 2004

 top Full description of project:

Through this project students will develop critical and reflective thinking on the use of ICT in their daily lives. Students are invited to answer questions such as: How and where do they use ICT?  How did ICT evolve and at what pace? What technologies were used 10 years ago as compared to the current ones? How do they see ICT in the next couple of years? How did the use of ICT change their life in terms of time allocation and their work load management and/or their social life. What if there were no ICT, for example, what would our world be like? How would that impact the environment, education, socio-economic relationships etc?  They can also ask their own questions of interest and share them with the group. Students are welcome to express their views in any creative media. Students are welcome to  Display their views in Schoolnet forum.

 School level of project participants:

Secondary one through secondary three levels are invited to participate in this forum.

 Timetable/Schedule for the project:

The project will be launched on December 6, 2004 and will continue until May 21, 2005.  Students work will be published online on an ongoing basis. The project will be evaluated in May 2005 and hopefully re-launched during the next academic year.

Possible project/classroom activities:

Students can brainstorm, discuss, research and write essays about the impact of technology in their daily lives. Creative writing is also welcome and can be presented in any form. Students can post their views in the forum in the form of: essays, publications, reports, artwork, PowerPoint presentations or other creative media.

Expected outcomes/products:

Essays, publications, reports, related artwork, PowerPoint presentations or other creative media to present their views; All students' contribution will be published on the following website: www.schoolnet.edu.lb/projects/iot.htm

Project contribution to others and the planet:

Students will develop awareness on the impact of ICT in their lives and enhance their reflective and creative thinking,

Project language(s): Arabic, French and English

Curriculum area: Languages , sociology, Geography,civics and Technology

top Names/email of initial participating groups:

1.      Abbassieh school, South Lebanon

2.      Ashrafieh first school for boys

3.      Baalbeck school for girls, Bekaa

4.      Bchemoun school, Mount Lebanon

5.      Beit Chebab school, Mount Lebanon

6.      Bikfaya school, Mount Lebanon

7.      Fakhreddine school for girls, Beirut

8.      Ghbeiry school for girls, Mount Lebanon

9.      Haddadine school for boys, North Lebanon

10.  Haddadine school for girls, North Lebanon

11.  Halba school, North

12.  Hassan Kamel El Sabbah school, Nabatieh

13.  Hawsh El Omara school, Bakaa

14.  Hermel school, Bekaa

15.  Jamil Rawaas school, Beirut

16.  Jbeil school., Mount Lebanon

17.  Jdaidet El Metn for girls

18.  Jebshite school, Nabatieh

19.  Maghdoushe school, South Lebanon

20.  Manara school, Bekaa

21.  Merje'youn school, Nabatieh

22.  Nabatieh school for girls, Nabatieh

23.  Reneh Mouawad school for boys

24.  Saida school for boys, South Lebanon

25.  Saida school for girls, South Lebanon

26.  Shehim school, Mount Lebanon

27.  André Nahhass Secondary school for girls, North Lebanon

28.  Tyr for girls, South Lebanon

29.  Zahle school for girls, Bekaa

30.  Zghorta school, North

31. Aramoun School, Mount Lebanon

The project participants will follow a one day workshop on November 29, 2004. Teachers from secondary public schools from all school districts in Lebanon will be invited to participate in the project. A train-the-trainer workshop will be offered to lead teachers to deliver the project outputs.

Coordinators: All coordinators from participating schools.

Facilitators Management:  Abdou Yammine, abdonada@cyberia.net.lb,  coordinator of Internet Projects at the Ministry of Education and Higher education - Lebanon  and Eliane Metni, eliane@emetni.com ,  IEARN Lebanon coordinator

Facilitators: Widad Elias, Souad Mortada, Patricia Khoury, Najat Ariss, Zainab Abbass and Narjes el Sahily

top Leading Questions

Examples of leading questions for ICT projects to consider. Additional ones can be added if desired.

1. How is ICT helping individuals and society?
2. What is the impact of ICT on working practices and production?
3. What is the impact of the Internet and interactive digital Television on student's life?
4. How do we consider issues related to ICT? (legal issues and future issues)
5. What is the impact of ICT on teaching?
6. How can education on ICT be enhanced in schools at all levels?
7. What is the impact of ICT on educators and learners?
8. What is the impact of ICT on municipalities' development?
9. What is the impact of ICT on administrative procedures?
10. What is the impact of ICT on enhancing human conditions?
11. What is the impact of ICT on development of national sectors? What niche ICT projects or ideas can you propose for select sectors? (Agriculture, industry, health, tourism, banking, education, etc.)
12. What is the impact of ICT on local community development?
13. How can ICT be best used for equitable national socio-economic development?
14. What in your own view will be the future of ICT?
15. How can we protect ICT from being misused? What awareness / training measures are needed?
16. Which ICT services and solutions in your view does Lebanon have a competitive advantage in offering?
17. How can ICT help the government reduce the national debt?
18. How do you see ICT in the next couple of years?

top Indicators of quality expected in the project.

At the end of this project, students should demonstrate the ability and skill to hold their arguments and support their views with respect to the following questions:

1. Have their skills improved as the result of this project? If yes, in which ways and to what levels?
2. What are the factors that encourage the use of ICT?
3. What are the lessons learned from using ICT in their education process?
4. What are their views about the impact of ICT on their lives?
5. Impact of computers on educators and learners? What are the required improvements?
6. What competency development on the practical and reflective levels have they gained?

top To Success

topTo accomplish a complete project, students must be able to:

·       Define their leading question.

·       Demonstrate its correlation to her/his own life/community.

·       Find appropriate resources.

·       Conduct a research.

·       Analyze/cross-compare and/or synthesize.

·       Compile the data

·       Document and reference their work.

·       Present their work in a report form.

·       Prepare a Power Point presentation.

top Guidance for teachers.

• Students have to investigate the impact that ICT has had on society and predict how they see it progressing over the coming years.
• Students may gain an appreciation of how ICT is being used in today's society by being exposed to real life examples.
• Students will undertake research into where ICT is currently being used and explain their finding. They will then be able to predict where the future lies for ICT in society. They have to think about future developments.
• Students should explore areas with which they are familiar, so that they may see first hand, the way in which ICT has benefited or disadvantaged society.
• Students may be allowed to carry out independent research. (visiting places where they can see how ICT is being used).
• Students must cover to a basic level the development of the Internet in his region and visit centers that can be considered as places can be considered as suitability of materials available on the Internet.
• Students may dream up an idea for ICT usage in society to ease the lives of human beings.  Examples in the sectors of health, social services, government services are but some to consider.

top Guidance on Evaluation.

• Students must identify how the use of ICT impacts on their own life or that of their family, friends and peers. This should be related to the area researched by the students, rather than being a broad summation of the effects of ICT in general.
• Students must use appropriate sources of information when researching material for their report. It is recognized that students at this level may need guidance in identifying and selecting suitable sources of information.
• Students must briefly describe what improvements have resulted from ICT use in the area that they have studied, and how ICT has facilitated this improvement.
• Based on their research of their chosen subject, students should identify possible future use of ICT either within the usages area that they focused on or in other applicable areas.
• Students must independently identify and select appropriate sources of information. This does not preclude a student checking the accuracy or reliability of an information source with their teacher. Collection of statistical or numeric information to quantify the impact of ICT on a particular area of focus is highly encouraged.
• Students must plan the content and presentation of their reports so that their final report is well structured, properly referenced and easy to follow. Students may want to use a proforma or produce outline plans of the content and structure of their work to help them achieve this criterion.
•  Students must recognize both the advantages and disadvantages of the use of ICT in the chosen area of study.
• Students must identify how the use of ICT impacts on wider society that is outside of their own lives or that of their family, friends and peer.
• Students must evaluate how useful each source of information was to their research. They may want to include comments on the reliability, accuracy or currency of the information available, and other sources of information
• Students must make suggestions as to how their research or final report could be improved. This may relate to content or presentation, but should not be trivial, for example "reprint in color"
• Students must work to make the final presentation well structured, fairly encompassing in terms of content and strategic in terms of impact findings.
• If working in groups, each student must work on part of the research project and profess an investigated area so as to contribute equally to the group in both the report and presentation formations.

top Evaluation Assesment

The evaluation that will be carried out by the higher project committee will be based on the following criteria: