What´s ICT?

The diverse digital tools and resources used to create,

communicate, save and manage information are called ICT
Earlier ICT continue to play a critical role In education worldwide

Access to films, videotapes, telephone, television, radio are still common

ICT is a combination of hardware, software, media and delivery
systems

Technologies such as desktops, laptops, digital cameras,

internet, CD ROMs, DVDs, and applications such as word
processor, spreadsheets, tutorials, simulations, email, digital
library, videoconferencing and virtual reality.
ICT is integrated with older technology. Textbook with CD
ROMs or web sites.
Misconception that ICT refers to computers only

• At the end of the 1980s the term computers was replaced by IT (information technology)
signifying a shift of focus from computer technology to the capacity to store and retrieve
information.

• Around 1992 the term ICT was introduced when email was available to the public

According toa United nations report (1992) ICTs cover:

internet service
telecommunication equipment and services
information technology equipment and services
media and broadcasting
libraries and documentation centers
commercial information providers
network-based information services
other related information and communication activities.
ICT products available to education:
• Teleconferencing
• email
• audio conferencing
• television lessons
• radio broadcast
• interactive radio counselling
• interactive voice response system
• audio cassettes
• CD ROMs
• ICT in education: innovate, accelerate, enrich, deepen skills,
motivate, and engage students.
• Computers and applications of technology led to the need of
computer skills in everyday life.

In 1990s ICT became popular due to electronic email, and the

world wide web, CD ROMs replaced floppy disks. This led to the
conception that students may be taught by computers. ¿Teachers
replaced by computers?
Two big categories: ICT for education, and ICT in education

• ICT for education refers to the development of information and

communication technology especially for teaching/learning
purposes.
• ICT in education involves the adoption of general components
of information and communication technologies in a teaching
learning process.
Conventional vs. Contemporary teaching
• From content to competency and performance
• ICT prepares next generations for future lives and careers.
• ICT encourages and supports independent learning
• Learning is viewed as the construction of meaning rather than
as the memorization of facts. This leads to student-centered
approach
ACCESSIBILITY OF EDUCATION
• ICT increases de flexibility of delivery of education.

• Geographic flexibility.

• Easy access learning.

• Opportunities for many more learners

• ICT leads to the democratization of education

• ICT removes barriers of education in any country (cost, number of teachers and
students, distance)
• Access to digital resources like libraries

• ICT can be helpful for non-formal education.

• ICT improves the perception and understanding of the world of the student.
LEARNING ENVIRONMENT

• Use multiple information resources.

• Learning through simulations
• Learning content and tasks adapted to each individual pupil
• Modern system and ways of learning
• Student-centered environment
MOTIVATION
• ICT enhances teacher training
• There’s a shift from teacher-centered to student-centered environment.
• Videos, television, multimedia computer software which combine text, sound
and moving colorful images will engage students
• Sound effects, songs, dramatizations, comic skits make students involved in
the lesson.
• Teachers teach through multimedia. Longer retention in their mind for
examinations
• There’s interaction with real people.
• ICT allows learners to explore and discover rather than merely listen and
remember
SCHOLASTIC PERFORMANCE

• ICT expends access to education and raises educational quality

• ICT improves communication between them and the instructors
• Studies show that learners using ICT score more than those
who don’t use ICT
• Students with a computer al home score better in reading and
math. Students work outside the class