Impact of the Information Communication Technology on Education

Having the ICT technology in schools it encourages the pupils to access a wide range of information and communication opportunities and enables pupils to store and retrieve, draft and redraft, test and analyse. This develops there learning skills that are required for the National Curriculum. These skills include: Communication skills, problem-solving, investigating, evaluating and analysing and critical

Information communication technology (ICT) helps to learn theoretic development discoveries, treatment and support techniques for education and curriculum. It gives teachers, higher level teaching assistant (HLTA) and children access to educational resources from around the globe anytime and day. While using ICT, children learn concepts, history, ideas, theories and practices across culture when it is use in their classroom. HLTA and teachers however have to know how and why they are using ICT and incorporate the concepts in: social responsibility, creativity, communication, culture sensitivity, decision making technology application and usage. According to Andrews et al. (2006, p.5) “ICT has been defined as including stand-alone computers, networked technologies with a multimodal interface, mobile phones with the capacity for a range of types of communication, and other technologies that allow multimodal and interactive communication.”

In Lavin, Korte, Davies). The result of the study further pushes the notion of how important it is for school staff to understand the given technology so they can distribute the information effectively to their students. All the technology in the world will be ineffective if the teachers themselves are not passionate of their work. “Technology has the potential to transform the learning environment from passive to active and more subject to the control of the learner.” (qtd. In Lavin, Korte, Davies).

Education has always been an universal matter of discussion for those who teach and and even for those who learn. This discussion has now become urgent especially since the advent of new technologies and their implications for education. Today there are many studies, ideas and experiences ongoing in education.

On a daily basis, both businesses and individuals rely on technology. It cannot be denied that technology has become part of our everyday life. As individuals, we all depend on technology, either for education, health purposes, transportation, communication, romantic relationships, and/or business growth . It is impossible to explore how each advancement in technology has impacted our lives as well as how it will impact the future, but we can briefly explore the major advancements. Technology impacts the environment, people individually, and the society as a whole.

ICT have become commonplace entities in all aspects of life. Across the past twenty years the use of ICT has fundamentally transformed the practices and procedures of nearly all forms of exertion within business and governance. Education is a very socially focused activity and quality education has traditionally been connected with strong teachers having high degrees of personal contact with learners. The use of ICT in education lends itself to more student-centred learning settings. But with the world moving swiftly into digital media and information, the role of ICT in education is becoming more and more essential and this importance will continue to grow and develop in the 21st century.

Role of ICT as a Teaching - Learning Material (TLM) in the field of education

The use of ICT technology in teaching instruction is expanding rapidly in the twenty-first century. Studies about the importance of technology in teaching and learning are also appearing in a growing numbers. Previous research indicates that technologies, particularly computer could “facilitate communication, reduce anxiety, encourage oral discussion, develop the writing/thinking connection, nurture social or cooperative learning, promote egalitarian class structures, enhance student motivation, facilitate cross-cultural awareness, and improve writing skills” Ynag & Chen (2007,p.2) . In light of these positive effects, an increasing number of scholars have examined the importance of ICT in teaching and learning.

Technology is advancing in everyday life and is starting to make its way to the education field. Teaching students how to read has always been one of the school's main focus. Students have always learned to read out of textbooks, but now that technology is growing, schools are starting to use e-books and different online software depending on the class type. Because of the growth in technology in school, students need to be taught how to read and comprehend books and online books at a young age.

As communication technology becomes more flexible and easier to use, it is increasingly being used more and more on a daily basis. With the development of communication technology it is has become easier for individuals to communicate with each virtually through the internet. The use of this technology can help better academic activities to a higher education level, as well as contribute to a more universal access to education, the delivery of quality learning and teaching and more efficient education management while modernizing the teaching curriculum.

Because of their priority in modern societies, Information Technologies have reached a state of high priority in education, too. Recently, contributions of information technologies to education have been among the mostly emphasized subjects (Webber, 2003; Flanagan&Jacopsen, 2003; Pelgrum, 2001; Yuen, Law&Wong, 2003). For this reason, big investment plans about the use of information systems have been put into action all over the world (Yuen, Law&Wong, 2003; Pelgrum,2001).

Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) education is our society’s efforts to teach its current and emerging students valuable knowledge and skills around computing and communications devices, the software that operates them, the applications that run on them and the systems that are built with them (mpict, 2008).

ICT have made teaching-learning process more relevant for the learner and connected to real life. The education system is the main source of human resource development. Its focus is on the acquisition of knowledge, self-learning, generic and transferable skills in communication, entrepreneurship, management and technology that are the characteristics of the learning society of today. Teachers play a crucial role in the adoption and implementation of ICT in education; however, studies show that teachers lack the necessary ICT knowledge and skills. Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) are generally accepted as a modern instrumental tool which enables the educators to modify the teaching methods they use in order to increase the students interest and it is a new medium, a new way of representing, communicating and working with information. In India, there is serious need for increasing the learning abilities of the students with the help of ICT.

According to Martin and Ofori-Attah (2005), technology is an area of the curriculum, as well as a tool for teaching and learning, in which teachers must demonstrate their own awareness and capacity for learning. In other words, for effective and meaningful teaching in the present information age, the demonstration of teachers’ awareness and competencies for instructional use of information and communication technology (ICT) cannot be underscored. If teachers are aware of the use of ICT in teaching, students/pupils are likely to benefit from their knowledge. The

COMPUTER is important to us, specially to all student. If they have an assignment or project in the school, they can do it or work it wisely by information in the computer. It can help students to make fast their work to gather or founding information about their topics in every subjects, to know the meaning of unfamiliar word to them and history or story. Computer can give or gather information for many