Nature of ICT Approach in Learning and Teaching Process

Nature of ICT Approach in Learning and Teaching Process

This study is Information Communication Technology (ICT) in Teaching and Learning Technical Education. The use of ICT in teaching-learning process is a relatively new phenomenon and it has been the educational researchers' focus. The innovations that ICT has brought in teaching learning process include: E-learning, e-communication, quick access to information, online student registration, online advertisement, reduced burden of keeping hardcopy, networking with resourceful persons, etc. However, the presence of all these factors increased the chance of excellent integration of ICT in teaching-learning process.

Keywords:      ICT, Teaching-Learning, Effective

ICT in Education

ICT is the Information and Communication Technologies. "ICT in Education" means "Teaching and Learning with ICT". The role of technology in teaching and learning is rapidly becoming one of the most important and widely discussed issues in contemporary education policy (Rosen & Well, 1995; and Thierer, 2000). At every level of education, educational technology is perceived as a vehicle for curriculum enhancement. In the more advanced industrialized nations, there has been a staggering amount of research and publication related to ICT use for educational purposes during the past decade.

ICT MEANING:

The term “Information” refers to “any communication or representation of knowledge such as facts, data or opinions in any medium or for, including textual, numerical, graphic Cartographic, narrative or audio-visual forms.

Technology is the practical form of scientific knowledge or the science of application of knowledge to practical.

ICT DEFINITION:

• "ICT implies the technology which consists of electronic devices and associated human interactive materials that enable the user to employ them for a wide range of teaching - learning processes in addition to personal use."
• “Information technology is a modern technology of teaching by which we can make a learning more effective”.-Habibullah
• “ICT is a technology which increase the rate of learning by enabling the teacher to teach less and the learner to learn more”- Md. Abdus Salam and Sohail Ahamed.

WHY ICT IN EDUCATION?

• The rapidly growing usage of technology in today’s world is pushing teachers to consider the integration of ICT into the classroom.
• ICT can be used as a tool for motivating students to learn in a different way.
• ICT can be effective and efficient.
• ICT gives learners immediate access to richer source materials.
• It can be dynamic and interactive.

ELEMENTS OF ICT IN EDUCATION:

Teacher - Understand the characteristics of ICT, and possible to facilitate learner’s learning activities with ICT.

Learner- Use information resources with critical and collaborative manner with other people for learning.

Curriculum - National standardized educational object, contents, and assessment with ICT.

Educational Policy - Law, budget, institutions for fostering ICT in education

Educational Information Service - The networked service system for helping communication between teacher and learner, and assisting the utilization of educational contents.

Infrastructure - Computers, contents, facilities required to teacher and learners for teaching-learning process.

ADVANTAGES AND LIMITATIONS OF ICT IN TEACHING LEARNING PROCESS:

Advantages

• Offer the opportunity for more student centred teaching.
• Provide greater opportunity for teacher- to-teacher and student-to-student communication and collaboration.
• Give greater exposure to vocational and workforce skills for students.
• Provide opportunities for multiple technologies delivered by teachers.
• Create greater enthusiasm for learning amongst students.
• Provide teachers with new sources of information and knowledge.
• Prepare learners for the real world.
• Provide distance learners country-wide with online educational materials.
• Provide learners with additional resources to assist resource-based learning.
• Set specific criteria and targets to help classify and categorize the different development levels of using ICT in education.
• Leveraging ICT to assist and facilitate learning for the benefit of all learners and teachers across the curriculum
• Broadening access to quality educational services for learners at all levels of the education system.
• Improving the efficiency of educational administration and management at every level from the classroom, school library, through the school and on to the sector as a whole.
• Google have recently launched a programme called “Google Classroom” that aims at simplify, creating, distributing and grading an assignment in a paperless way.

IN BRIEF:

• ICT helps to stimulate, motivate and Engage Learners.
• Increase achievement.
• Enable better understanding.
• Cultivate improved communication.
• Have a positive impact on workload
• Quick access to information.
• Easy availability of updated data.
• Connecting Geographically dispersed regions.
• Catering to the Individual differences.
• Wider range of communication media.
• Wider learning opportunities for pupils.

LIMITATIONS:

• Computers limit students’ imaginations.
• Over-reliance on ICT limits student’s critical thinking and analytical skills.
• Students often have only a superficial understanding of the information they download.
• Computer-based learning has negative physical side-effects such as vision problem.
• Students may be easily distracted from their learning and may visit unwanted sites.
• Students tend to neglect learning resources other than the computer and internet.
• Students tend to focus on superficial presentations and copying from the Internet.
• Students may have less opportunity to use oral skills and hand writing.
• Use of ICT may be difficult for weaker students, because they may have problems with working independently and may need more support from the teacher.

The rapid growth in ICT has brought remarkable changes in the twenty-first century in teaching-learning process. The effective integration of technology into classroom practices poses a challenge to teachers and learner. The above study indicate that teachers and learners have strong desire for the integration of ICT into education but they encountered many barriers to it. These findings therefore have implications for training the teachers to become regular users of ICT focusing on acquiring basic ICT skills. We think that if ICT is successfully integrated in Education then it enables wider learning opportunities into teaching-learning process.

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