IMPACT OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY (ICT) IN EDUCATION

IMPACT OF ICT IN EDUCATION

INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY (ICT) can be defined as the use of hardware and software for efficient management of information. ICT refers to the forms of technology that are used to transmit, store, create, share or exchange particular task. It has become a part and parcel of life. The discoveries and inventions in science and technology have improved the speed of communication. By making use of available tools, ICT is helping common man to fulfil his needs and desires. aprt from this learning using ICT, motivates and impact the learner motivates learner

It is important to acknowledge that ICT can have technical problems and contingency planning is necessary to ensure that alternative strategies are in place. Same time situation in a school & colleges where the ICT was particularly unreliable and this led to lower attainment among high ability learners students lost so much time when the computers would not work at all that the high attainers working on the computers produced work of a much lower standard than usual and were demotivated. As computers become more sophisticated and the range of software used by schools & colleges continues to increase, it must recognize the need to employ more and higher quality technical staff. With pressure on budgets and competition from the commercial sector for the best staff, it is becoming increasingly difficult for schools to attract and retain technical staff with the appropriate skills and experience.

          It has become integral part of new era.

SCOPE OF ICT IN EDUCATION

A person from village also can refer the latest information and research every day. Television broadcast is one of the best communication media to educate students, farmers, and sportsman. The difficult experiments, advance surgery for medical students etc. can be viewed. LCD projectors can be used for effective training. The man power problem, the human mistakes can be avoided by on-line examination.

        In online tutoring, the student logs into his or her tutor through the use of internet at home. The student asks the question and teacher replies it by writing on smart board or using PowerPoint presentation.

IMPACT OF ICT

ICT enhance teaching and learning environments. ICT impacted the teaching infrastructure tremendously. It impacts across many areas in Education industry as listed below:

• ICT enables self-paced learning through various tools such as assignment, computer etc., as a result of this, the teaching learning enterprise has become more productive and meaningful.
• ICT helps facilitate the transaction between producers and users by keeping the students updated and enhancing teachers capacity and ability fostering a live contact between the teacher and the student through e-mail, chalk session, e-learning, web-based learning including internet, intranet, extranet, TV audio-video aids, CD-ROM.
• Edusat technology has become very powerful media for interactive participation of experts and learners and it reaches the unreachable.
• Emerging learning Technology (ELT) of bogging, Integrated Learning  Modules, a pod cast, Wikis, Enhancement of Browsers, e-learning, M-learning, U-learning have started making rapid strides in teaching learning processes.
• Broadening horizons with more opportunities for creative expression
• Flexibility to study where, when and how best suits individual needs and preferences
• Increased motivation through learning that stimulates and stretches
• Wider access to learning and participation
• Sensible choices about when, when not and how to use new technology to enhance, enrich and extend learning.
• The use of specialist hardware and software by learner involved in Art projects. They use digital cameras to capture original images that are used as the basis for paintings or digitally manipulated to create new and interesting effects. The colleges also uses digital scanners to explore the light filtering properties of different plastics, net curtains and film negatives. The use of digital technology allows students to experiment much more than would be possible with traditional techniques given the amount of curriculum time available. ICT can be used effectively in Science to show video sequences of things that are hard to explain or visualize. For example, animated sequences could be used to show how water molecules behave as temperature changes alter the state of the water from ice, through liquid water to steam
•  ICT enables high quality output to be produced at a speed that cannot be matched using traditional methods and resources. Teaching applications such as graphing packages in Mathematics, multimedia authoring software and data analysis packages in Geography and Science all allow students to work much faster than if they had to do the tasks manually. ICT as a tool to increase the breadth and speed of learning, increasing the efficiency of both teacher and students. ICT was used to gather, analyzed present information and the teacher described her use as great for cutting down time where you want to analyze information.

ADVANTAGES OF ICT IN EDUCATION

• Teacher application of curriculum can be monitored by analyzing test results. This can be used by teachers for assessing and improving their own performance meeting state and national standards.
• Students use ICT as reference tool. They use computers to browse the internet to look information, project information and literature survey. 
• Teachers use ICT in research for preparing teaching material, participate in online forums and online conference. Researchers use ICT tool to collect, process and analyze data. 
• School administrators use ICT tool for administrative purpose to make sure that the entire operation runs smoothly. E.g. to get student details at the click of a button.

            The overall conclusion who rightly challenges ICT is largely incompatible with the requirements of teaching. Under the right conditions – where teachers are personally comfortable and at least moderately skilled in using computers themselves, where the school’s daily class schedule permits allocating time for students to use computers as part of class assignments, where enough equipment is available and convenient to permit computer activities to flow seamlessly alongside other learning tasks and where the teacher’s personal philosophies support a student-centred, constructive pedagogy that incorporates collaborative projects partly defined by student interest –computers are clearly becoming a valuable and well-functioning instructional tool.