Theories And Strategies Improving ICT In Congolese Education

Congolese schools today face over-increasing demands in the attempts to ensure that students are well equipped to enter the workforce and navigate a complex world. ICT research from others around the world indicates that ICT can help support learning, and that is especially useful in developing the higher-order skills of critical thinking, analysis, and scientific inquiry. The mere presence of computers in the classroom does not ensure their effective use. Some computers applications have been shown to be more successful than others and many factors influence how well even the most promising applications are implemented. In this work, we are talking about the various ways ICT can be used to improve how and what children learn in the classroom. Several examples of ICT applications are highlighted to illustrate ways technology can enhance how children learn by supporting four fundamental characteristics of learning (1) Active engagement, (2) Participation in groups, (3) Frequent interaction and feed back, and (4) connections to real-world contexts.Additional examples illustrate how technology can expand what children learn by helping them to understand core concepts in different subjects.The use of ICT as an effective learning tool is more likely to take place when embedded in a broader education reform movement that includes improvements in teacher training, curriculum, student assessment, and a schools capacity for change.For Congo, we decide to set up some theories and strategies improving ICT education.Our work has 6 parts: (1) introduction, (2) Role of ICT in education, (3) Background of ICT education in Congo, (4) Theories and Strategies improving ICT in Congolese education, (5) Recommendations, and (6) Conclusion.Part 2 Role of ICT in Education: the rational for introducing ICT into schools (the effects of ICT on students, on teachers, and on school administration), and board purposes of ICT in schools.Part 3 Background of ICT Education in Congo: background of Congolese education, Congolese ICT profile, necessity to introduce ICT, problems hindering effective application (lack of trained staff, poor infrastructure, financial constraints, poor cooperation among institutions and lack of effective legislation. Part 4: Theories and Strategies improving ICT in Congolese education, these theories and strategies are subdivided in 4 points: (1) Theories and Strategies concerning the economic planning and the management of a plan of integration of ICT, (2) Theories and Strategies concerning the diffusion of the information in the environment in change, (3) Theories and Strategies concerning equipment and Software, (4) Theories and Strategies concerning the training and the support to the users.(1) Theories and strategies concerning the economic planning and the management of a plan of ICT's integration in Congolese EducationThe conception of the school in Congo is a system containing school committee, community, socio-cultural and political context, parents, students, teachers, churches. These elements of school system are connected; to modify an element can have repercussion on others.Strategy 1: Reform of ICT in Congolese schools, attention should be focused on practice and organization. Practice is the way to let teachers access to the new form of teaching and learning, where the student is the centre of learning, he can decide on how and what he wants to learn, and so the teacher become a guide, a facilitator. Organization includes school organization, curriculum, evaluation, technology environment of learning. Strategy 2: Following the school systems in Congo (publics and privates schools, schools belong to churches), the decision to introduce, modify or organize ICT in different schools should be taken collectively by cooperation between all sectors in charge of education in Congo. From this cooperation, they will together decide which sectors need an external support and assistance.This strategy will allow Congolese people to get a better understanding of...