The Commission on Information and Communication Technology (CICT), Philippines has initiated the iSchools Project to support the effort of the government and the Department of Education (DepEd) in integrating information and communication technology (ICT) education in public high schools.
The project focuses on strengthening classroom learning and instruction by expanding access to various sources of information. The components of the project include to conduct trainers' training to ensure quality during the educators' training implementation phase; the stakeholders' mobilization and project briefing; the provision of an Internet laboratory; conduct educators' training; content development; monitoring and evaluation; applications development; the computer maintenance, trouble shooting and recycling; capacity-building program for DepEd ICT coordinators; educators' congress; and the project close-out activities. The content development includes the initiation of training on web development among teachers and selected senior students that will enable them to create local educational content.
