期刊名称：International Journal of Education and Development using Information and Communication Technology
电子版ISSN：1814-0556
出版年度：2014
卷号：10
期号：1
页码：70-90
出版社：University of the West Indies
摘要：One of the goals of education is to creat e responsible citizens who can adequately understand the problems faced by their societies and who can then act to help solve the m . Such behaviour can be fostered through proper education that facilitates expert knowledge about social issues , nurtures the ability to think critically and learn s the skills needed to pro - activel y search for possible solutions. Through this study we aimed to develop an Information and C ommunication Technologies (ICT) supported pedagogical framew ork , Children as Agents of Social Change (CASC) , as a possible vehicle to facilitate appropriate educati on about social issues. This article analyses the first implementation of the CASC framework carried out at schools in Tanzania. Forest fires in Tanzania are often caused by human activity and education about this pressing problem needs to be provisioned o n a large scale . However, due to a lack of teacher s and teacher expertise , this is not the reality . W ith help of the local community, w e created a locally contextuali s ed video supported by a Problem B ased L earning (PBL) solution to connect l ocal forest exp erts with school students . T hese students then creatively conducted PBL activities in order to help solve local environment al and conservation problems. Data was collected through pre - and post - tests of control - experimental groups and teacher interviews. R esults suggest that the participants were enlightened as to a variety of active problem solving possibilities and that they ranked the CASC methodology as an effective approach to sustainability
关键词：IC T for development; ICT supported pedagogical m ; odel; social issues; social ; awareness; ; Problem based learning ; ; CASC
