ICTs are making a dynamic change in society. they are influencing all aspects of life. The influences are felt more and more at schools. Because ICTs provide both students and teachers with more opportunities in adapting learning and teaching to individual needs.
Nowadays the role of Information and Communication Technology (ICT), in education plays an important role, especially in the process of empowering the technology into the educational activities. ICT technology on another side can be the most effective way to increase the student’s knowledge.
The use of ICT in education adds value to teaching and learning, by enhancing the effectiveness of learning. It adds a dimension to learning. ICT has a pivotal role to play to address the issue of quality content and quality of teachers. Globally role of ICT has been acknowledged and appreciated. It's successful once teachers have appreciated. It is affecting every aspect of education from teaching-learning to assessment and evaluation. It improves the effectiveness of education. It aids literacy movements. It enhances the scope of education by facilitating mobile learning and inclusive education. It facilitates research and scholarly communication. Impact of ICT and its potential for the education field is manifold.
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Importance of ICT in Education |
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has an important role in the world since we are now in the information age era.
ICT is one of the economic development pillars to gain a national competitive advantage. It can improve the quality of human life because it can be used as a learning and education media, the mass communication media in promoting and campaigning practical and important issues, such as the health and social area. It provides wider knowledge and can help in gaining and accessing information.
ICT has become an integral part of everyday life for many people. It increases its importance in people’s lives and it is expected that this trend will continue, to the extent that ICT literacy will become a functional requirement for people’s work, social, and personal lives.
The use of ICT in education adds value in teaching and learning, by enhancing the effectiveness of learning. As a matter of fact, we are living in a constantly evolving digital world. ICT has an impact on nearly every aspect of our lives – from working to socializing, learning to playing. The digital age has transformed the way young people communicate, network, seek help, access information and learn.
Through ICT students are more motivated and as the students are more motivated and as such, they become more creative when they are faced with new learning environments. Also, they are prone to assimilate in a disciplined way working collaboratively with their peers. As a result, they are able to generate knowledge.
Generally, three objectives are distinguished for the use of ICT in education
(i) The use of ICT as an object of study; refers to learning about ICT, which enables students to use ICT in their daily life.
(ii) The use of ICT as aspect of discipline or profession; refers to the development of ICT skills for professional or vocational purposes.
(iii) The use of ICT as a medium for teaching and learning; focuses on the use of ICT for the enhancement of the teaching and learning process. It is a fact that teachers are at the center of curriculum change and they control the teaching and learning process.
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Importance of ICT in Education |
- ICT has vital importance that all young people have adequate access to it and that they develop the necessary skills, taking full advantage of the learning capabilities that offers.
- It support learning and teaching across the curriculum.
- supports broader educational aims, such as positive dispositions towards learning, enhanced presentation of work, problem solving and investigative approaches
the potential for communicating and researching locally and globally, including access to a global bank of information ability to share ideas and work collaboratively
ability to access expertise through a variety of techniques.
