ICTs and its application in Education
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Information and Communication Technology (ICT) plays a crucial role in education by providing various tools and resources that enhance learning experiences. Its objectives include increasing networking, facilitating distance learning, and supplementing traditional methods, while advantages consist of improved resource access and interactive learning. However, challenges such as high costs, the need for teacher training, and potential distractions exist, emphasizing that while technology enhances learning, it cannot replace the role of teachers.
ICTs and its application in Education
- 1. Shikha ICT & its Application in Education
- 2. Introduction ❑InformationandCommunicationTechnologyusually called ICT, is often used as an extendedsynonyms for Information Technology(IT)
- 3. Tools of ICTs ❑Each of the different ICTs—print,audio/video cassettes, radio and TV broadcasts, teleconferencing,video-conferencing, computersor the Internet—may be used for presentation and demonstration.
- 4. How have Internet been used in education? ➢Directclass teaching - where broadcast programming substitutes for teachers on a temporary basis; ➢School Broadcasting - where broadcast programming provide complementary teaching and learning resources not otherwise available; and ➢General Educational Programming overCommunity – national and International stations which provide general and informal educational opportunities.
- 5. Uses ➢The uses of ICTs in education extends beyond equipping classrooms with computers and an Internet connection. ➢There are a wide variety of ICTs currently available to schools and universities that can be implemented to enhance students' overall learning experiences in numerous ways. ➢Those schools and universities that have implemented ICTs primarily use these technologies to fulfill three objectives.
- 6. Three objectives ➢Increase Networking opportunities-ICTs helps schools to Connect others schools as well as individual within those schools to one another ➢Provide Distance Learning- with the advent of ICTs, learning has become Web-Based.As a result, ICTs have started to replace correspondence schools. ➢SupplementTraditionalLearning-Oneof the most common uses of ICTs in education involves students using software programs such as MicrosoftWord to produce otherwise traditional written assignment.
- 7. Advantages ➢Increased accessedto Resources-Unlike the traditional classroom that is locked at the end of the school day, ICTs allows students to access educational resources from anywhere at any time. ➢Interactive Learning Experience-Many educators deliver information in the form of lecture. ICTs allows students to access information through videos, podcasts and a variety of other interactive media. ➢Students-CenteredLearning-Ina traditional classroom, students cannot control how lessons are planned. Through the use of ICT applications now they can control of their learning experience. Students can decide when class is in session, as well as how the lesson material will be presented
- 8. Disadvantage ❑Although ICT can enhance students learning in many ways, there are some disadvantages associated with implementing these sophisticated technologies in schools and colleges. ➢High Costs ➢TeachersTraining ➢Uncertain success Rate ➢Distraction
- 9. Conclusion Technology is a versatile and valuable tool for teaching and learning and becoming a way of life.Technology allows students to see the whole world as a resource with themselves being in charge of their destiny. It also benefits students because they have choices and opportunities to explore and share information to a greater extent than available in a traditional classroom. But I believe Technology can only enhance the productivity of learning, there is no substitute of a teacher.