The 6th EBF – Preparing Digital Generation of Teachers
Company-Community Partnerships for Health in Indonesia (CCPHI) held the sixth Education and Business Forum (EBF) on Apr 30, 2013 with the topic “Preparing Digital Generation of Teachers”. Hosted by Microsoft and moderated by Mohammad Ihsan from Indonesian Teachers Association, the event was attended by 47 participants from 15 companies, 7 NGOs, and 2 education institutions.
This program showcased the partnership between Microsoft (www.microsoft.com/indonesia) and Binus Center (www.binuscenter.com). Binus Center is an educational institution that provides competency-based certification of IT and Communication (ICT) trainings to help the teachers develop their ICT skills required by the education and business world. Microsoft Indonesia is a subsidiary of Microsoft Corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA. Microsoft is a developer, manufacturer, distributor and publisher of software technology.
Obert Hoseanto, Partners in Learning Manager of Microsoft, and Gintoro FX, Director of Binus Center, presented their partnership on digital generation of teachers designed to improve the skill of kindergarten, elementary, junior and high school teachers to use ICT. This skill is to support teaching-learning activity in classroom. The program started in February 2012 and ended in December 2012 in Jakarta Province.
This program is in line with the plan to modify the 2013 national education curricula; to integrate ICT into all subjects. The change of curricula will improve student's standard competency on their ICT skill that is useful in their future workplace.
Microsoft provides funding and trainings for trainers. Binus identifies school partners, develops training materials, provides trainers, prepares training logistic and distributes Guided Learning as an ICT 101 training tool for teachers.
As of end of 2012, Binus had trained 7,000 teachers, distributed Guided Learning tools to 15,000 students from 35 schools in Jakarta.