March, 2017

Heeok Heo
(Sunchon National University,
South Korea)
Contents

Teacher Technology
education adaptation in
education

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Teacher Technology
education adaptation in
education

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Korea
• Map of Korea
(Tiger shape)
• Area: Seoul
100,210 km2
(South Korea)
• Population :
50,293,000
(South Korea)
Sunchon

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Sweden

South Korea

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Density of population

Rank Country Area(km2) Population

3 Singapore 719.2 5,607,300

Hong Kong
4 1,105.7 7,346,700
(China)

24 South Korea 100,210 50,801,405

196 Sweden 450,295 10,029,740

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Basic information

National Flag Taegeukgi

Currency Won (US$1 = 1,150 won) (March, 2017)

Language Korean (Writing system: Hangeul, 한글)

Literacy Rate 97.9% (2014)

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Education system in Korea

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Number of schools

Primary schools Middle schools High schools

Number of schools 5,913 3,173 2,322

Number of teachers 181,585 112,690 133,414

Number of students 2,784,000 1,804,189 1,893,303

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Teacher Technology
education adaptation in
education

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Historical backgrounds

1392~1897 1950~1953
Chosun Dynasty Korean War

1910~1945
Confucian Colonization by The value of
belief Japan education and the
priority of
education for
human growth

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Social value

Passion and will toward life goals

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Social value

Efforts and Faithfulness

Study hard Exhausted

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Value of education

Recognition
on the importance
of education

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Value of education

Desire to get more and better education

High schools Universities

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Value of education

Parents’ support and engagement

Grand
Father’s
parents’
indifference
money

Mother’s
Nanny’s care
information

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Value of education

Teachers’
emotional
engagement
in students’ learning

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Value of education

Motivation
through
competition

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Learning culture in schools
 Centralization in educational policy
 Well structured nation-wide curriculum
 Subject and content oriented teaching
 Teacher centeredness
 Student care
 Competitive mood among students

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Teacher Technology
education adaptation in
education

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Status of teacher as profession

Society respects and trusts teachers.

Job position is stable.

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Status of teacher as profession

Teachers’ salary is relatively higher in Korea

Source: https://data.oecd.org/eduresource/teachers-salaries.htm
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Vocational preference in Korea

Teacher positions

No. 1 Below
average
Satisfaction on teachers

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Teacher education (TE)

Pre-service TE In-service TE

4 year education at
university of education
for primary education
Qualification and(or)
job-task education
4 year education at
universities for
secondary education

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Teacher education at universities

Program specialized
College of Education
in teaching profession

• Basic criteria of student selection for teacher education at

universities
• Performance in high schools
• Score of the entrance exam to university
• Interviews
• Requirement to earn a teaching certificate
• Taking certain amount of credit hours
• Getting an average of B+ grade
• Taking educational practices at schools for 4-6 weeks and
educational services for 30 hours in edcuational institutes

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Teacher selection process

Earning bachelor´s •Over 50 credit hours in subject and

degree general education for 4 years

Passing •Written test

•Oral test and teaching
a national exam
practice

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In-service teacher education
 Qualification
 Grade I and Grade II teachers
 librarians (Grade I)
 nursing teachers (Grade I)
 vice-principals, and principals
 Job-task education

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Responsible organization for
in-service TE
 Ministry of Education
 Regional Office of Education
 Teacher education centers at universities
 Schools
 Teacher communities
 Private organizations certified as a teacher
training institute

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Framework of TE for ICT use in
education
Basic course for Advanced Leaderships for
Basic course for
ICT use in course for ICT ICT use in
ICT use
Education use in Education Education
• Course
• Information • Conceptualization • Course design
consulting
search • Use ICT as a • Course
• Policy
• ICT tools tool in class implementation
development

Educational
School Teachers
Administrator

Source: ICT use in Education White paper (KERIS, 2012)

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Major policy for ICT use in
education

SMART Education

A customized learning system

that enhances the capacity of learners in the 21st
century, by moving away
from uniformed to individualized education,
from standardized to diversified knowledge, and
from admission-oriented to creativity-based learning
(Lee, 2011)

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Major tasks in Smart education

Development of
digital textbooks

Enhancing teacher Promotion of online

capacity for SMART classes and
education evaluations

Building cloud- Establishment of

based learning safe educational
services environment

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Current topics for TE

Use of
SMART Software
digital
education education
textbooks

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ICT use in education

Stage 3 Stage 5
Stage 1 (2006~2010) (2015~2018)
(1996~2000) Information Educational
ICT service for ecosystem
infrastructure education with ICT

Stage 2 Stage 4
(2001~2005) (2010~2014)
ICT literacy Educational
innovation
with ICT

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EDUNET

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Digital textbooks

• Interacting
• Multimedia: 3D images,
VR
• Text: highlighting,
note-taking
• Study cards
• Sharing

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Digital textbooks

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Stages for development and
implementation

2014~ 2018
2012-2013 Implementation in Use in
model schools
Establishment of all schools
2007-2011 Institutional and
legel base

Conceptualization &
Prototype
development

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• Social science class at a middle school
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWL_ji-JQ6M

• Science class at a middle school

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYDquUTjcqk

• Keris videos
• http://www.keris.or.kr/intro/it_status04.jsp

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NEIS
National Education Information system

Video
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Reflection
 Students’ unhappy feeling in school time
 Parents burden to support their kids
 Over education: mismatch with employers
and employees
 High rate of unemployment

Consistent efforts to improve the educational system

and to enhance learning outcomes for all

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Q&A

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 Education
in early 1900

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Themes in Confucian thought

Filial piety
효孝

Loyalty Righteousness
충忠 의義

Etiquette
예禮

Ren
인仁

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Korean war

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