WHAT IS IINFORMATION COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY.pptx
- 1. WHAT IS ICT? -Information and Communications Technology (ICT) can impact student learning when teachers are digitally literate and understand how to integrate it into curriculum. Schools use a diverse set of ICT tools to communicate, create, disseminate, store, and manage Information, Some contexts, ICT has also become integral to the teaching-learning interaction, through such approaches as replacing chalkboards with interactive digital whiteboards, using students’ own smartphones or other devices for learning during class time, and the “flipped classroom” model where students watch lectures at home on the computer and use classroom time for more interactive exercises.
- 2. WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF ICT? The Importance of ICT in Education Today we do not need to go any further than our own home or even room, to see some form of ICT in our lives. Whether it be a computer, plasma TV, or mobile phone, we all have them in some part of our lives.
- 3. WHAT IS THE IMPORTANCE OF ICT? Importance of Students Engaging with ICT It is important for students to engage with ICT so that: 1.Learn 21st-century skills and develop their ICT capability and ICT literacy. 2.Improves their attainment levels. 3.Prepares them for an integrated society dominated by ICT developments. 4.So that they learn the notion of using ICT as a tool for lifelong learning.
- 4. The presence of ICT in education allows for new ways of learning for students and teachers. E-learning or online learning is becoming increasingly popular and with various unprecedented events taking place in our lives, this does not only open opportunities for schools to ensure that students have access to curriculum materials whilst in the classroom but also allows them to ensure students outside the classroom such as at home or even in hospitals can learn. ICT brings inclusion: The benefits of ICT in education is of such that students in the classroom can all learn from the curriculum material.. Key issues
- 5. ICT training for teachers and students, can also improve communication and collaboration between teachers and their students. With the use of technology, teachers can easily communicate with their students through email, messaging apps, and online discussion forums. This can help to create a more interactive and engaging learning environment, where students can ask questions and receive feedback in real-time IMPROVE COMMUNICATION AND COLLABORATION
- 6. The Advantages and Disadvantages of ICT in Education There are many reasons why you should use technology in the classroom. There are also disadvantages too. My personal reason is that technology to use in the classroom should: Support subject learning Technology can be used as a tool for learning other than a media for fun and; Enable you to develop student ICT capability and ICT literacy alongside subject learning. Below I have outlined what I consider to be the advantages and disadvantages of technology in the classroom. In general, school technology should always be used by students as a tool for learning and a means to an end by teacher.