Pupils need free home access to ICT tools. Companies making money from selling educational products to children must realise that this is stopping the poorest students in their tracks - or forcing them to break the law.
Photograph: Denis Felix/Getty Images Taking a board marker, Mr Smith added little twos to the top of each letter, then a bar, and down, with a tick. Then it clicked, this little equation spelt out genius, the whole world resonated with a new sense of order. What else could maths do? Home. UNESCO Launchs ICT Competency Framework for Teachers. UNESCO in partnership with industry leaders and global subject experts has elaborated the ICT Competency Framework for Teachers which sets out the competencies required to teach effectively.
This current version of the ICT Competency Framework for Teachers is a 2011 update of the original version published in 2008, and is the result of the successful continued partnership between UNESCO and CISCO, INTEL, ISTE and Microsoft. In their announcement of this version, UNESCO refers to the following 'Two decades after the first mainstream rollout of computers in schools we have learned many significant lessons about ICT in Education and their potential transforming impact on national education systems. Yet, countries around the world face urgent challenges in harnessing the power of ICT in the classroom and beyond.