Uzbekistan state world languages university english language faculty II course paper

CHAPTER II. THE ROLE OF ICT TO MAKE TEACHING-LEARNING EFFECTIVE

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   The use of traditional and emerging learning technologies in lyceums (TLT AND ELT)
   

Much depends on the skill level of the teacher and the students. One thing for certain is that when you compare the skills of students over the years the skill level increases down the age groups as each year goes by. It is not unusually for students to be able to develop web pages in the junior lyceum while students in Year 16 are unable to perform a similar ask. This makes it difficult to develop a whole school scope and sequence for the development of ICT skills. In addition, a school strategy needs to take into account when the syllabuses have difference requirements at different Stages. What follows are some generic activities which can be used and applied into your lyceums situation. I have broken the activities into Traditional Learning Technologies (TLT) and Emerging Learning Technologies (ELT).

The use of Traditional Learning Technologies (TLT)

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   Basic computer software
   

The use of word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Outlook and the Apple equilivant can all be implemented to enhance the learning of the content covered in class. A simple task of providing word documents on your intranet or network with questions for the students to download. The ICT skills they would learn with this simple activity would numerous such as being able to logon to their profile, navigate the network or use a username and password to access the file, save a document to their profile or home directory. In addition they have answered questions relevant to the unit of work they are studying.

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   Subject specific software
   

The specific subject software such as Data Logging for Science, Mathematics software games, GIS for Geography, image manipulation software for Visual Art, special programs for Languages to name a few. For example the ICT skills learnt by using image manipulation software will teach the students a lot about manipulating the size of images for which the network manager will be eternally grateful. In the process of doing this the will learn where to locate original files, create photo galleries, thumbnails and perhaps integrate them into web pages.

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   Web browsing software
   

Students know how to use different browsers but do they use all of the functions? Browsing software is a very powerful instrument. Knowledge management aside the management of bookmarks should be the first thing taught to students. This way they can learn to navigate to where they need to be quickly and efficiently. Once the have done this they can learn to make use of functions on the internet that can collate their needed data and store information they have and interacting by using for example My Space.