DepEd 5-year ICT plan in 2009

Education Secretary Jesli Lapus unveiled a 5-year Information and Communications Technology for Education (ICT4E) strategic plan that will also involve spending P2 billion in 2009 alone.

The education department also plans to intensify the use of ICT to revitalize schools, link students to global resources and enable them to critically seek and analyze information, create new knowledge and products and eventually develop habits of self-learning.

The strategic plan will include activities, such as complete integration of ICT into the curriculum; intensifying competency-based professional development program; establishment of necessary ICT infrastructure and development of processes and systems for governance and management.

Lapus said the proposed P2 Billion budget for next year will cover 44,300 primary and secondary schools nationwide.

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source: technology.inquirer.net