Importance Of Information And Communication Technology In Teacher 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 education: technology has change the way teacher teaches and how students learn. Technology has been proven to put teachers in a better position in monitoring and tracking their student’s progress and achievements. For example, the use of technology has made it possible for University of People to be in existence. Without technology we will not be here today discussing about its impact on

Within my setting, ICT is an opportunity for children to apply and develop their knowledge and capability. With my help, they can research, question accuracy of sites and exchange and share information together and through emails (we also share with a neighbouring school and have class blogs). Children are learning the fundamentals of research and electronic media, with support, guidance and safeguarding programs. They develop ideas using tools to refine work, enhance quality and accuracy, use spell checks and thesaurus. These are just some of the general requirements from National Curriculum 1999, published by QCA. In conversation with my teacher, we noted how technology has changed rapidly. We use ICT in Assembly,

The leaders in education need to be informed to ICT possible benefits with the leader’s dangers and be active in lecturing them, from now ICT literacy development provides an appropriate venue for this. The development of an ICT addition model in schools is valuable for stakeholders in education to evaluate technology training for school leaders and create opportunities for principals to acquire ICT integration skills. (Selwood, 2003) said that when school leaders allow technology integration through vision and knowledge, schools can improve in instructional technology, which can lead to greater student achievement and better preparation for a technological society. (Bonifaz & Zucker, 2004) said that teaching students with laptops establishes a different environment than traditional classrooms and requires the teacher to have ICT knowledge and skills, effective ICT teaching strategies, effective classroom management as well as technical support. In a school setting, likewide (Cuban, 2001) said that ICT requires additional time and effort to utilize, and consequently may be used less frequently. (Abuzaid & Singh, 2008, Al-Jarf, 2007, Bauer & Kenton, 2005) said that this part introduces the conceptualized of ICT in education. (Fitzallen, 2004) said that attention is increasingly directed at the border of the questions merging

As has been known, today’s workforce is evolving, hence it is a must for teachers implement the technology-based

ICTs are nowadays indispensable in our modern technological society. Students should develop a proper digital competence, and they should also become global citizens of the 21st century. Therefore, it is essential to successfully integrate ICTs into our syllabus development and annual programme four our daily classroom management. ICTs are valuable tools to enhance teaching and learning. For students, ICTs not only do provide opportunities to communicate more effectively, but they also are valuable tools for researching, composing and responding, viewing and representing in English. As teachers, we should take into consideration that incorporating ICTs into the English curriculum could improve the four linguistic macro-skills and also support collaboration, creativity, independent learning and reflection.

Teachers can use technology to teach various subjects and to find out more information on how to present a topic in a new and exciting way. Teachers can also allow students to use technology to broaden their learning experiences tremendously.

Education would not exist without the current evolution of technology. Education is important to every human being, whether taught by paper or by ever-growing technology. The students, because of the easiness that comes from experience with the

School districts are spending a large part of their budget on technology. The demand on teachers is ever increasing to keep up. Many teachers have not had the computer background that today’s students have been exposed to; this requires teachers to learn and keep up with current technology. Teachers can learn from their students just like the students learn from their teachers. Students have more exposure to modern technology and help the teachers learn. Technology can help make the job of the teacher easier and more efficient. A person’s attitude makes a difference in success with technology. Acceptance of change and eagerness to learn new things will make it an easier transition!

The past few decades have been marked by rapid development in computer technology from the early days of the mainframe computers in the 1960s to the current age whereby the gap between computer technology and everyday life has reduced immensely. There is no doubt that computers have permeated everyday life from their use in almost all aspects of life from the social aspects through social media, to their use in making everyday life better in every way. However, an argument brought to the fore postulates that there has been an overreliance on computer technology to the point where humans are unable to function without them. While one school of thought argues that this is true by highlighting that various functions such as medical examinations can only be done using computer technology, another points out that there is need to develop human ability without necessarily relying on computers.

Management uses ICT to keep records of students, students’ progress, to address problems and notices regarding education. Teachers use ICT to make lesson plans, worksheets, and attendance, daily records of class, to find and store resources and to assign different assessments furthermore ICT is also used by teachers to motivate students and also the role of the teacher has changed due to ICT. For example Khirawada, 2005 states that “In the context of ICT usage in school the teacher becomes often mediator for student activities promoting team work, stimulating student’s self-control, promoting project work and independent learning and acting as a resource facilitator mediating collaborative learning.” (Khirwadkar, 2005). Moreover Students use ICT for discussions, to make assignments, to do quizzes and to submit

At present and for the constant changes daily arise in education, teaching practice must be in line with these changes, that is why we have a continuous training in the area of ​​design and use of teaching strategies, as well as use of new information and communications technology; and it is here that as teachers us to consider new challenges to strengthen our educational system out of backwardness in which we are immersed for several years.

Websites and Books have been used for the research of this paper. Information obtained and quoted from books are accurate; whereas the material used from websites are not always correct but the information taken from web sources are written in the paper by further research on every point.

One of the technology's outcomes is that it has altered the patterns of access and dissemination of knowledge. This would help the teacher to revisit and control the strategies for activities that he/she has previously conducted, whether at the information access level or at the level of organization. To be qualified and effective in the performance of his/her work in this new educational environment, the teacher has to acquire a wide range of technical skills that permit him/her to utilize them. Therefore, the teacher is only the director while