The Role of ict in Education!

The Role of ICT in Education!

• By Bashir

ICT in Schools

• Introduction
• It is generally agreed that ICT is a crucial resource in education.
• Children use computers from an early age and continue to university level.
• Children taught practical ICT skills that are transferable into the work place.

Advantages of using the Internet in schools

• A cheap, fast way to access a huge amount of resources that are regularly updated.
• Accessible 24/7 – allowing students to continue their work at home.
• Encourages computer literacy, helpful in an increasingly technologically orientated world.

More advantages

• Teachers upload course documents so that students misses a lesson, they can download information and do the work in their own time.
• Encourages student-driven lessons, where students take responsibility for their learning.

Even more advantages!

• Government sponsored learning tools available to students – eg GCSE bite size – allow them to find useful information.
• Government promises high-speed broadband internet access for every university, hospital and doctors' surgery which would allow schools to be linked and to share resources.

Disadvantages of the Internet in Education

• Less need for schools
• Being taught the wrong things
• A lot of distractions

Less Need For Schools

• No outside contact
• Job losses for teachers, etc
• There is a lot of incorrect information on the internet
• Students will learn more theory and less practical

Being taught the wrong things

• Hacking
• Creating Viruses
• Plagiarism

A lot of distractions

• Games
• Music
• Videos
• Chatrooms/Messengers/Emails

Advantages of ICT in Education

• Use of packages: word-processing, dtp, spreadsheets.
• Special facilities for pupils with disabilities.
• Teacher and pupil communications improve.
• ICT provides links with other schools or with businesses.
• Computers in schools provides wider access to ICT and encourages new ways of learning
• Can repeat work again and again and again

CD-ROMs in schools

• Interactive teaching packages are available on CD for different subjects.
• Children can learn in varied ways in the classroom.
• There are many CD-ROMs available for each level of the national curriculum.

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• Disadvantages of ICT in Schools 1

• ICT is very expensive - not all students get the same opportunities

• It can be boring sitting in front of a computer for a long time.

• Computers cannot interact on a personal level e.g. fuller explanation

• It becomes harder for the teachers to organise the teaching of new concepts.

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• Disadvantages of ICT in Schools 2

• Some students find it hard to use computers

• Students minds are more likely to wander from their set task.

• Not all teachers are keen on ICT but, are forced to use it.

• Will Computers Replace Teachers? 1

• Children lose social interaction.

• Working on computers all day – bad for your health.

• Computers aren’t as reliable as teachers

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• Will Computers Replace Teachers? 2

• Computers cant explain new concepts as well as a good teacher.

• If left to learn at their own speed, many students would fall behind.

• Computers don’t have the motivating force that teachers have.

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