Updated on: June 02, 2001 18:43:32

Conferences:

[1] The Technology in the Educational System:

[2] The First Arab Conference on Biotechnology Education.

[3] The First Arab conference on the systemic approach in teaching and learning.

[1] The Technology in the Educational System:

This conference was held on 23-24^th of May 2000 at Ain Shams Univ. Guest house. 150 memers from universities, research centers and the Ministry of Education were involved, some of the participants presented papers covering the different aspects of the conference on the first day:. These papers were:

1- Technology in the educational system. Prof. A. El-Lakkany, Faculty of Education, Ain-Shams Univ.

2- The science education center view on using the technology in the educational system. Prof. A. F. Fahmy, Director of the Center, Science Education Center Ain Shams Univ.

3- Types of educational technologies in teaching. Prof. F. H. Mohamed, Faculty of Education, Ain - Shams Univ.

4- The role of the artificial intelligence in education. Prof. A. M. Salem, Vice Dean of the Faculty of Computer and Information Science Ain - Shams Univ.

5- Using information and communication technologies to develop the higher education. Prof. T. G. Shawky, Information expert at the UNESCO office, Cairo.

6- The experience of the Center in lecturing using the modern technology. Dr. Nabawy  A. Elkattan, Biology Expert at the Center.

7- Experiences in changing printed texts into electronic texts. Mr. Samy Shalaby, Computer Expert.

8- Using modern technology in presenting the results of an applied research.

On the second day, some of the experiences of Ain - Shams University in using educational technology were presented. The following faculty members presented the following papers.

1- Prof. M. F. Tolba. Dean of the Faculty of Computer and Information Sciences, Ain Shams Univ.

2- Prof. S. Farag. Botany Prof. At the Faculty of Science, Ain Shams Univ.

3- Prof. R. M. Ramadan. Chem. Prof., Faculty of Science, Ain Shams Univ.

4- Prof. A. Z. Badr. Head of the Information Network, Ain Shams Univ.

5- Prof. B. M. Awad. Chemistry Prof., Faculty of Girls, Ain Shams Univ.

The conference came up with the following recommendations.

The university should encourage planning and carrying out conferences and workshops that disseminate using education technology in teaching at the different disciplines.

Giving the appropriate support to the center to be a base for educational technology.

Providing the university library with the different technologies that help in carrying out its duties.

The center should make links with international organizations interested in educational technologies.

Increasing the cooperation between the center and the ministry of education.

Developing an educational technology unit at the center in cooperation with the UNESCO. The unit should be used in training Faculty Members at the University in using educational technologies.

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[2] The First Arab Conference on Biotechnology Education.

It was held on 13-17^th Sept. 2000 at Ain-Shams Univ. Guest House. It was organized with the cooperation of the UNESCO regional bureau for the Arab States in Cairo and the National Center for Educational Research and Development, Cairo. 140 participants from the universities, research centers, Ministry of Education beside some members from the Arab World were involved. Several papers were presented and discussed in the conference. These included.

1- Biotechnology education in Egypt. Prof. Amin E-Dowidar, Biology Expert at the Center, Ain Shams Univ.

2- Fermentation Technology. Prof. A. Al-Diwani, the National Center for Scientific Research.

3- Biotechnology in Agriculture. Prof. H. El-Etreby, Vice director, Agricultural Research Center, Ministry of Agriculture.

4- Biotechnology in Agriculture. Prof. A-Zein Elbedeen, Director, the Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering Research Center, Ain-Shams Univ.

5- Gene Manipulation and its role in developing Biotechnology. Prof. A. F. Badr Mohamed, Head of the Botany Dept., Faculty of Science Tanta Univ.

6- Synthesis of some quinine compounds. Dr. M. M. Shorab. National Center for Radiation Technology Research.

7- Biotechnology and producing salt resistant plants. Prof. A. Bahai El-Din, Genetics Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Ain-Shams Univ.

8- Biotechnology in the curricula of basic education. Dr. M. Abdel Salam, The Bational Center for Educational Research and Development.

9- A proposal for introducing biotechnology in the curricula of the general education. Dr. F. Abo-Al-Moaty, the National Center for Educational Research and Development.

10- Introducing some biotechnology concepts in the curricula of the high school. Dr. M. Khairy, the National Center for Educational Research and Development.

11- Biotechnology and pharmaceutical industry. Prof. A. Abdel Rehim. Head of the research and control in Ebico company.

12- Biotechnology Ethics. Prof. A. Helmy, Faculty of Science, Ain - shams Univ.

13- A strategy for using biotechnology to serve human development. Prof. Faculty of Agriculture, Alexandria Univ. Board Director, the Arab Organization for Biotechnology.

The conference came out with several recommendations.

The most important of these were:

 Introducing biotechnology concepts in the curricula of the general and university education.

 Preparing and trying some units on biotechnology for the general and Univ. education curricula of the faculties of education.

Increasing the awareness of the public about the developments in biotechnology and its ethics through the media.

Initiating a site on the internet dealing with the latest developments in biotechnology and issues dealing with the ethic of biotechnology.

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[3] The First Arab conference on the systemic approach in teaching and learning.

This was held on 17-18 Feb., 2001 at Ain-Shams Univ. Guest house. It was organized in cooperation with the UNESCO regional bureau for Arab States in Cairo. 200 members attended the conference. The participants included members from Egyptian and Arab Universities beside many interested specialists from research centers and institutions. Some of the talks presented at the conference are:

1- Systemic Approach in Teaching and Learning. Prof. A. F. Fahmy, Director of Science Education Center, Ain Shams University.

2- The Educational system. Prof. M. K. El-Naka. Director the Center for University Education Development. Ain Shams University.

3- The School as a system. Prof. M. M. Hawamda. Jarash Univ. Jordan.

4- The systemic approach and teacher preparation. Prof. M. A. Nasr. Ex-Dean, Faculty of Education Al-Menia Univ.

5- The systemic approach in teaching and learning public health. Prof. A. M. Kamal Head of the Public health Dept., Faculty of Medicine, Ain- shams Univ.

6- The systemic approach in teaching and learning aromatic chemistry. Prof. N. Ghareeb, Faculty of Girls, Ain- shams Univ.

7- The systemic approach in teaching and learning aliphatic chemistry. Prof. M.H. Areef. Chem. Dep., Faculty of Science Zagazig Univ., Benha.

8- The systemic approach in teaching and learning the periodic table. Mr. A. Saad. High School Chemistry Teacher, Nasr City.

9- The systemic approach in teaching and learning mathematics. Prof. W. Ebeid, Faculty of Education, Ain-Shams Univ.

10- The systemic approach in teaching and learning physics. Prof. A. A. El-Shazly, Faculty of Education, Ain shams Univ.

11- The systemic approach in teaching and learning Biology. Prof. A. M. Ibrahim, Faculty of Science, Ain shams Univ.

Beside these talks, models were present with using the systemic approach in teaching:

- Practical work at the laboratory.

*Green chemistry.

*Organic chemistry.

- Physics.

- Biology.

- Public Health.

The conference come out with several recommendations.

The most important of these are:

Intensifying the efforts in the Center towards preparing model units in different science disciplines using the systemic approach for general & higher education.

Increasing the activities of the Center towards generalization in different education topics.

Dissemination and publicizing the systemic approach in teaching and learning among the Arab Universities.

Organizing workshop and training courses for the teachers and university staff members.

It is recommended that the educational preparation of the Univ. lectures should include discussions about systemic approach.

Preparation of test materials taking into consideration the systemic approach.

Faculties of education are advised to adopt the systemic approach in their teacher preparation programs.

Preparing a model curriculum using the systemic approach in public health education in the faculties of medicine.

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