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The setting up of the Department of Technology in Education
presently headed by Mr Norman Borg (acting Director) , is the end result of the ever increasing importance being given to technology both in the teaching environment and the school administration. This department integrates all initiatives related to technology education. The basic scope and aim has and still is “to give children an excellent start in education, enable young people to equip themselves with life and work skills, and encourage adults to achieve their full potential through learning” - in fact this is so very true!
One has only to visit the Education Division's IT Offices and Training Laboratories in Floriana and see for oneself the enormous activity and interaction between staff and teachers, -training and learning is more than evident. Technology Education figures as one of the top priorities of the new NMC. At the heart of technology education lies a distinctive model of teaching and learning because it is unbounded by fixed bodies of traditional knowledge and transcends the academic and practical divide.
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The Targets of the Department The introduction of technology education as an education tool in primary sectory and as a core subject in the secondary – this is because in the Primary the emphasis is on the use of ICT to teach and learn the curriculum subjects, rather than a subject in itself; Continued emphasis on the development of teachers in the use of ICT in their subject areas; Increased emphasis of the pedagogical use of ICT (i.e. on all forms of work, organisation and assessment, as well as a tool in such development, ICT across the Curriculum); ICT certification for all students through the introduction of European Computer Driving Licence (ECDL); Ensuring fast internet access to all students and improving student to computer ratio in the primary and secondary schools; Setting up of a National Web-based Education Resource Centre; Maintaining the infrastructure of the ICT school network; Evaluation of current state of use of ICT in Schools; Training and support of school administrators and school clerical personnel in the SIS programmes.
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The Department's ICT activities, services and operations are far reaching and its activities are managed through various Units one managing the primary schools sector, another caters for all the secondary schools sector, the ECDL management also falls under the responsibilty of this IT Department. The Design and Technology Unit as well as the Schools Information System also form an integral part of the Department of Technology in Education. Recently, the Department of technology has also joined in the E-twinning programme, co-ordinated by Mr Emile Vassallo. In a nutshell all that is related to IT in education falls under the jurisdiction of this all important delivery arm within the Ministry of Education Youth and Employment.
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