ISPSC iSchools Experience Terminal Report
FOREWORD
Information and Communications Technology (ICT) has pervaded almost every strand in the fabric of society. The global economy today is driven by knowledge. Those who have access to information and make good use of ICT are the most productive and powerful. It is therefore the role of educational institutions, especially basic education, to prepare and enable the learners in the vital skills for this knowledge economy.
The Department of Education advocates the use ICTs as “a powerful enabler of capacity development… targeted towards specific development goals like ensuring basic education for all and lifelong learning, among others.” In support to the DepEd’s advocacy, the Information and Communications Technology Office (then the Commission on Information and Communications Technology) initiated the iSchools project in 2006 to help establish a Philippine educational system that maximizes the use of ICT in learning.
For its role in the ICT literacy, the Ilocos Sur Polytechnic State College became a partner of ICTO in the implementation of the iSchools project in its service area. ISPSC implemented the iSchools project for three funding years (2006F, 2007F and 2009F) and completed the implementation of iSchools in twenty-seven (27) public high schools in the provinces of Ilocos Sur and Ilocos Norte, and in some parts of La Union, Pangasinan, and Abra.
