Significance of ICT in

Teaching and Learning

Process
 What is ICT?
• Information and communication technologies
(ICT) is defined as a diverse set of
technological tools and resources used to
transmit, store, create, share or exchange
information. These technological tools and
resources include computers, the Internet
(websites, blogs and emails), live broadcasting
technologies (radio, television and webcasting),
recorded broadcasting technologies
(podcasting, audio and video players, and
storage devices) and telephony (fixed or
mobile, satellite, visio/video-conferencing,
etc.).
 Significance of ICT in
Teaching and Learning
Process
 Active Learning
• ICT-enhanced learning mobilizes tools for
examination, calculation and analysis of
information, thus providing a platform for
student inquiry, analysis and construction
of new information. Learners therefore
learn as they do and, whenever
appropriate, work on reallife problems in-
depth, making learning less abstract and
more relevant to the learner’s life
situation. ICT-enhanced learning
promotes increased learner engagement.
Collaborative learning
• ICT-supported learning encourages
interaction and cooperation among
students, teachers, and experts
regardless of where they are. Apart
from modeling realworld interactions,
ICT-supported learning provides
learners the opportunity to work with
people from different cultures,
thereby helping to enhance learners’
teaming and communicative skills as
well as their global awareness.
Evaluate learning
• ICT-enhanced learning is student-
directed and diagnostic. Unlike
static, text- or print-based
educational technologies, ICT-
enhanced learning recognizes that
there are many different learning
pathways and many different
articulations of knowledge. ICTs
allow learners to explore and
discover rather than merely listen
and remember
• Below are some of the reasons
why use ICT in education in
combating digital divide,
bringing about digital
opportunity and paradigm shift
from teacher-centered to
student-centered learning,
whereby the teacher passes the
information quicker and in a
more understandable
manner(ICTE Solutions, 2021):
E-learning or Online Learning
The presence of ICT in education
allows for new ways of learning for students
and teachers. E-learning or online learning is
becoming increasingly popular and with
various unprecedented events taking place in
our lives, this does not only open
opportunities for schools to ensure that
students have access to curriculum materials
whilst in the classroom but also allows them
to ensure students outside the classroom such
as at home or even in hospitals can learn.
 ICT brings inclusion
• Students in the classroom can all
learn from the curriculum material.
Students with special needs are no
longer at a disadvantage as they
have access to essential material
and special ICT tools can be used by
students to make use of ICT for
their own educational needs.
  
ICT promotes higher-order thinking skills

• One of the key skills for the 21st

century which includes evaluating,
planning, monitoring, and reflecting
to name a few. The effective use of
ICT in education demands skills
such as explaining and justifying the
use of ICT in producing solutions to
problems. Students need to discuss,
test, and conjecture the various
strategies that they will use.
ICT use develops ICT literacy
and ICT Capability

• Both are 21stcentury skills that are

best developed whilst ICT remains
transparent in the background of
subject learning. The best way to
develop ICT capability is to
provide them with meaningful
activities, embedded in purposeful
subject-related contexts.
 ICT use encourages
collaboration
• You just have to put a laptop, iPad or
computer in the classroom to
understand how this works. ICT
naturally brings children together
where they can talk and discuss what
they are doing for their work and this
in turn, opens up avenues for
communication thus leading to
language development.
 ICT in education improves engagement
and knowledge retention

• When ICT is integrated into lessons,

students become more engaged and
motivated in their work. This is because
technology provides different
opportunities to make it more fun and
enjoyable in terms of teaching the same
things in different ways. As a consequence
of this increased engagement, it is said
that they will be able to retain knowledge
more effectively and efficiently.
 ICT use allows for effective
differentiation of instruction
with technology
• We all learn differently at
different rates and styles and
technology provide opportunities
for this to occur.ICT is being
integrated and part of curriculum
as a tool for improving or
discovering quality education.
 Technology is not a separate realm from
education as a matter of fact, technology is penetrating all
realms but the appreciation of technology lies into how it is
accepted, adopted, and integrated to every system. In fact,
Tomaro and Mutiarin (2018) averred that it is only through
adoption and utilization can technology be useful and
meaningful in the development of one organization and its
outputs. Thus, teachers and school systems must work
together in pursuing technology integration at an optimal
level where innovative technology-based approaches to
teaching and learning are adopted and integrated in the
learning curricula.
THANK YOUUU EVERYONE