Nancy Curley
Assignment 7, EDTC 6035
November 7, 2013
I started my search by registering with ePals at www.epals.com. I was contacted by a few
teachers there but they were only interested in corresponding with classroom children as pen pals or in
some sort of classroom collaboration. I was not able to get anyone to answer my survey questions. My
husband had recently helped a local elementary school connect with a school in Denmark and he
suggested joining a technology group in Edmodo. I already had an Edmodo account so I just searched
for a group to join. I introduced myself and stated that I was a graduate student looking for a teacher
outside of the United States to answer some questions about ITC in their schools. I had three teachers
answer my survey that same evening.
Ms Pilgrim is a teacher at a British school located in the United Arab Emirates. She is an
ITC/Computing and Business teacher at a private school. She received a post graduate degree in the
United Kingdom. Her school requires a degree and teaching credentials. I have copied and pasted her
response to my survey questions from Edodo below.
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Ms. Pilgrim • Oct 8, 2013
Hi I'm an ICT/Computing and Business teacher at a British school in the UAE. I have answered
your survey:
1) Are you familiar with ICT and what this means (Information and Communication
Technology)? Yes (I teach the subject!)
2) Is ICT important in your school? How do you know? Yes, much investment, acceptable use
and bring your own device policies being roled out. New hardware and technologies being used,
introduced, bought.
3) Is digital literacy important in your school? How does your school support digital tools? Yes.
BYOD policy, use of iPads, use ofHi I'm an ICT/Computing and Business teacher at a British
school in the UAE. I have answered your survey:
4) Do you have a standard curriculum in your school? What skills and content are most
important? Reading? Mathematics? Science, etc.? English curriculum, GCSE and A Levels.
5) Where did you get your teaching credential? What are the requirements for teaching in your
state/province/country? UK trained degree and Postgrad certificate. Requirements depend on
school type. Ours requires degrees and usually teaching qual.
6) Is teaching with digital tools something you enjoy? Why or why not? Yes, it's my subject!
7) What restrictions are applied to use of computers, Internet, and digital tools in your school?
School and national filtering, no Youtube for students.
8) Is your school government supported or private? Private.
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Nancy Curley
Assignment 7, EDTC 6035
November 7, 2013
Mr. Bragais is a Computer teacher at a private school in the Philippines. The Casa Del Nino School is a
Montessori school. He answered the question about his credentials “in Tesda”. I researched this and
found that TESDA stands for Technical Education and Skills Development Authority. Their website
showed courses in bartending, housekeeping, culinary arts and technical skills. So I am thinking this is
some sort of jobs training school. There was no mention of degrees. His responses are inserted below.
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Mr. Braais • Oct 8, 2013
Daniel Bragais
Casans.edu.ph
Computer Administrator/ IT instructor
1. We are familiar with ICT. It is Communication with the use of Technology (e.g. Email, Cloud
Computing etc.).
2. It is very important because we have remote branches that will cost us too much if we don’t
use these Technologies.
3. Digital Literacy helps us teach even there is no actual class due to flood, typhoon and other
natural events.
4. STEAM (science technology engineering and mathematics)
5 Casans.edu.ph.Daniel Bragais
Casans.edu.ph
Computer Administrator/ IT instructor.
6. Using this technology I can communicate with my student with ease. I eliminate the waste of
time checking test papers and utilizing that time for studying my lesson so that i can deliver it or
teach it effectively.
7. We use the HOST file to block the specific websites that are not necessary for education.
8. Our Schools System Inc. is a private company
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Mr. Bragais • Oct 9, 2013
Mrs. Curley our school address is "Pacita2, San Pedro, Laguna Philippines" Grade 7- Grade 10
(we are just starting the K12 system in our country that is why we don't have grade 11 and grade
12) . ages 12-16 yrs old.
Nancy Curley
Assignment 7, EDTC 6035
November 7, 2013
Mrs. Strong is an English teacher in a government school in the United Arab Emirates. She received her
degree in the USA but it is unclear to me if she is American. She has a BS in secondary education and a
masters in Literature. She describes her school as an e-learning school in which students are issued
iPads and textbooks are e-books.
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Mrs. Strong • Oct 8, 2013
I'm in the UAE at an e-learning school.
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Mrs. Strong • Oct 8, 2013
We are an e-learning school. Our focus is vocational learning with an emphasis in engineering,
business, ICT and health. At year 11, my students have ICT 3 periods a week. They will take the
Cyber C3 exam to continue on in school. So yes, ICT is important here. Our students received
iPads from the school and do all of their learning on the Ipd. They have very few books, and
most of their books are Ibooks on the Ipad made by our CDU people (curriculum development
unit). We have some of the fastest Internet in the world here in the UAE.
For English, we are teachingWe are an e-learning school. Our focus is vocational learning with
an emphasis in engineering, business, ICT and health. At year 11, my students have ICT 3
periods a week. They will take the Cyber C3 exam to continue on in school. So yes, ICT is
important here. Our students received iPads from the school and do all of their learning on the
Ipd. They have very few books, and most of their books are Ibooks on the Ipad made by our
CDU people (curriculum development unit). We have some of the fastest Internet in the world
here in the UAE.
For English, we are teaching to the ILETS and CEPA exams and for Maths and Sciences they are
doing the IGCSE curriculum. Because these are not native speakers, the students spend 14
periods a week in English classes to support them in their vocational classes.
I received my teaching degree in the US, with a BA in secondary education and I also have an
MA in literature.
I’m struggling with the whole iPad usage as my education didn’t focus on e-learning. I went to a
small university that did not have access to all of these new tech tools. I’m learning quite a bit
from my students are they are quite adept in the use of the iPads. They are not supposed to have
games on the ipads but they find ways to sneak them in.
We are a government school but here that means for Emirate students only.
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