Guyana Education Strategic Plan
(2008 – 2013)
3. Key Issues and Challenges in the Education Sector:
3.8 Effective incorporation of ICT in teaching practices and improvement of ICT equipment needs to be sustained.
The Government of Guyana has recognised the huge potential of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to empower Guyanese to meet developmental challenges and strengthen the economy. The Government has therefore outlined various policies that are aimed at creating an environment that will foster technology use and encourage investment in ICT. These include fiscal policies that allow the import of computers free of tax and the integration of ICT in some critical areas. Education is one of the most critical of these areas because narrowing the digital gap is more than just providing physical access to computers and the Internet; people must understand how to put it to good
use.
The Education Strategic Plan (2003-2007) had as its most important objective the improvement of the quality of the delivery of education, especially in the area of literacy and numeracy. The increased use of technology was among the strategies identified to achieve the improvement in quality. At the primary level the teaching of mathematics by Interactive Radio Instruction for the first three grades was introduced.
Teachers should be able to explain the principles of using ICT in education, describe how these principles can be put into practice, analyse the issues that arise in implementing these principles and how the issues can be addressed (KD.1.a).
