ICT
Tools, Roles and Application
ICT
ICT is a valuable tool to
enhance teaching and learning. For teachers ICT is a professional resource, a
mode of classroom delivery, and a source of valid and valuable text types. For
students, ICT provides opportunities to communicate more effectively and to
develop literacy skills including skills in critical literacy. It is a valuable
tool for researching, composing and responding, and viewing and representing in
English.
ICT for education
Worldwide research has shown
that ICT can lead to improved student learning and better teaching methods. ICT
have some advantages and disadvantages.
The
advantages of ICT
tools for education
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· Through ICT,
images can easily be used in teaching and improving the retentive memory of
students.
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· Through ICT,
teachers can easily explain complex instructions and ensure students'
comprehension.
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· Through ICT,
teachers are able to create interactive classes and make the lessons more
enjoyable, which could improve student attendance and concentration.
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There are
also disadvantages of ICT tools for education :
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Setting up the
devices can be very troublesome.
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Too expensive
to afford.
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Hard for
teachers to use with a lack of experience using ICT tools.
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Role of ICT in education
In the twelfth plan, The
Planning Commission has stressed that ICT tools must be used for significantly
improving the educational services and for streamlining the admission process.
Says Dr Veera Gupta, Secretary, Central Board of Secondary Education, “ICT is
integral to the teaching learning process. In an age where massive expansion of
education is required, we cannot do without the use of technology. ICT is vital
for dissemination of knowledge, for evaluation and for keeping data and
records. The role of ICT is multi faceted and it has to be exploited to the
maximum potential.”
The draft of 12th five year
plan document states, “Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) should
be harnessed to enrich teaching-learning experience, to extend and diversify
delivery, improve research quality and collaboration by making knowledge and
information widely available, and ensure effective governance both at the
institutional and systemic level.” The draft says that student services needs
to be significantly improved and admissions should be streamlined.
Online tools for teaching and learning
Louisa
Mellor reveals ten free online tools that might change your teaching for the
better. One of the tools is Prezi. A presentation tool, Prezi provides
users with a large canvas upon which to pin text slides, video clips and
images. Prezi's selling point is its creation of a spatial narrative, meaning
users can flow around presentation elements in the same non-linear way one
might use an iPad: scrolling, enlarging, sliding and zooming in while always
being able to return to the wider context. Prezi is a sure-fire way to cure
your classroom of PowerPoint fatigue. The finished product is leaps and bounds
ahead of PowerPoint in terms of style, engaging the attention of pupils who
groan with over-familiarity at seeing cheesy slide transitions on the
whiteboard. it's one example of a free on line tool where novelty adds value.
One
weakness is that Prezi doesn't yet support a master account to create student
logins, so each pupil will need to apply for a separate EDU Enjoy account. lf
your school allocates pupil email addresses (only educational addresses are
accepted), this should be an easy hurdle to vault. If not, it still remains
useful for teacher-led presentations.
- Ideas for use: Whenever you or your pupils would use Microsoft PowerPoint, Prezi provides a more dynamic, engaging and visually attractive option. Innovative Science and Maths teachers of all key stages are already using Prezi to explain key concepts to pupils around the world.
- Alternative: Ahead.com is a similar tool that's particularly useful for showcasing student portfolios as well as making presentations. Student projects are granted free educational licences.
From the
explanation above, the conclusion is ICT is very useful for education. It makes
education better and easier for teacher. Eventhough there are some disadvantages,
but ICT can help teacher in teaching and assessment.
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