Need
- Education is a life long
process therefore anytime anywhere access to it is the need
- Information explosion is an
ever increasing phenomena therefore there is need to get access to this
information
- Education should meet the needs
of variety of learners and therefore IT is important in meeting this need
- It is a requirement of the
society that the individuals should posses technological literacy
- We need to increase access and
bring down the cost of education to meet the challenges of illiteracy and
poverty-IT is the answer
IMPORTANCE
- Access to variety of learning
resources
- Immediacy to information
- Anytime learning
- Anywhere learning
- Collaborative learning
- Multimedia approach to
education
- Authentic and up to date
information
- Access to online libraries
- Teaching of different subjects
made interesting
- Educational data storage
- Distance education
- Access to the source of
information
- Multiple communication
channels-e-mail,chat,forum,blogs,etc.
- Access to open courseware
- Better accesses to children
with disabilities
- Reduces time on many routine
tasks
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN EDUCATION
INTRODUCTION
Information Technology in Education, effects of the continuing developments in
information technology (IT) on education.
The
pace of change brought about by new technologies has had a significant effect
on the way people live, work, and play worldwide. New and emerging technologies
challenge the traditional process of teaching and learning, and the way
education is managed. Information technology, while an important area of study
in its own right, is having a major impact across all curriculum areas. Easy
worldwide communication provides instant access to a vast array of data,
challenging assimilation and assessment skills. Rapid communication, plus
increased access to IT in the home, at work, and in educational establishments,
could mean that learning becomes a truly lifelong activity—an activity in which
the pace of technological change forces constant evaluation of the learning
process itself.
Significance of IT in education
- Access
to variety of learning resources
In
the era of technology. IT aids plenty of resources to enhance the teaching
skills and learning ability. With the help of IT now it is easy to provide
audio visual education. The learning resources are being widens and widen. Now
with this vivid and vast technique as part of the IT curriculum, learners are
encouraged to regard computers as tools to be used in all aspects of their
studies. In particular, they need to make use of the new multimedia
technologies to communicate ideas, describe projects, and order information in
their work.
- Immediacy
to information
IT
has provided immediacy to education. Now in the year of computers and web
networks the pace of imparting knowledge is very very fast and one can be
educated anywhere at any time. New IT has often been introduced into
well-established patterns of working and living without radically altering
them. For example, the traditional office, with secretaries working at
keyboards and notes being written on paper and manually exchanged, has remained
remarkably stable, even if personal computers have replaced typewriters.
- Any time learning
Now
in the year of computers and web networks the pace of imparting knowledge is
very very fast and one can be educated .One can study whenever he wills
irrespective of whether it is day or night and irrespective of being in India
or in US because of the boom in IT.
- Collaborative learning
Now
IT has made it easy to study as well as teach in groups or in clusters. With
online we can be unite together to do the desired task. Efficient postal
systems, the telephone (fixed and mobile), and various recording and playback
systems based on computer technology all have a part to play in educational
broadcasting in the new millennium. The Internet and its Web sites are now
familiar to many children in developed countries and among educational elites
elsewhere, but it remains of little significance to very many more, who lack
the most basic means for subsistence.
- Multimedia approach to education
Audio-Visual
Education, planning, preparation, and use of devices and materials that involve
sight, sound, or both, for educational purposes. Among the devices used are
still and motion pictures, filmstrips, television, transparencies, audiotapes,
records, teaching machines, computers, and videodiscs. The growth of
audio-visual education has reflected developments in both technology and
learning theory.
Studies
in the psychology of learning suggest that the use of audio-visuals in
education has several advantages. All learning is based on perception, the
process by which the senses gain information from the environment. The higher
processes of memory and concept formation cannot occur without prior
perception. People can attend to only a limited amount of information at a
time; their selection and perception of information is influenced by past experiences.
Researchers have found that, other conditions being equal, more information is
taken in if it is received simultaneously in two modalities (vision and
hearing, for example) rather than in a single modality. Furthermore, learning
is enhanced when material is organized and that organization is evident to the
student.
These
findings suggest the value of audio-visuals in the educational process. They
can facilitate perception of the most important features, can be carefully
organized, and can require the student to use more than one modality.
- Authentic and up to date information
The
information and data which are available on the net is purely correct and up to
date.
Internet,
a collection of computer networks that operate to common standards and enable
the computers and the programs they run to communicate directly provides true
and correct information.
- Online
library
Internets
support thousands of different kinds of operational and experimental services
one of which is online library. We can get plenty of data on this online
library.
As
part of the IT curriculum, learners are encouraged to regard computers as tools
to be used in all aspects of their studies. In particular, they need to make
use of the new multimedia technologies to communicate ideas, describe projects,
and order information in their work. This requires them to select the medium
best suited to conveying their message, to structure information in a hierarchical
manner, and to link together information to produce a multidimensional
document.
- Distance learning
Distance
Learning, method of learning at a distance rather than in a classroom. Late
20th-century communications technologies, in their most recent phases
multimedia and interactive, open up new possibilities, both individual and
institutional, for an unprecedented expansion of home-based learning, much of
it part-time. The term distance learning was coined within the context of a
continuing communications revolution, largely replacing a hitherto confusing
mixed nomenclature—home study, independent study, external study, and, most
common, though restricted in pedagogic means, correspondence study. The
convergence of increased demand for access to educational facilities and
innovative communications technology has been increasingly exploited in face of
criticisms that distance learning is an inadequate substitute for learning
alongside others in formal institutions. A powerful incentive has been reduced
costs per student. At the same time, students studying at home themselves save
on travel time and other costs.
Whatever
the reasoning, distance learning widens access for students unable for whatever
reason (course availability, geographical remoteness, and family circumstances,
individual disability) to study alongside others. At the same time, it appeals
to students who prefer learning at home. In addition, it appeals to organizers
of professional and business education, providing an incentive to rethink the
most effective way of communicating vital information.
- Better
accesses to children with disabilities
Information
technology has brought drastic changes in the life of disabled children. IT
provides various software and technique to educate these poor peoples. Unless
provided early with special training, people profoundly deaf from birth are
incapable of learning to speak. Deafness from birth causes severe sensory
deprivation, which can seriously affect a person's intellectual capacity or
ability to learn. A child who sustains a hearing loss early in life may lack
the language stimulation experienced by children who can hear. The critical
period for neurological plasticity is up to age seven. Failure of acoustic
sensory input during this period results in failure of formation of synaptic
connections and, possibly, an irremediable situation for the child. A delay in
learning language may cause a deaf child's academic progress to be slower than
that of hearing children. The academic lag tends to be cumulative, so that a
deaf adolescent may be four or more academic years behind his or her hearing
peers. Deaf children who receive early language stimulation through sign
language, however, generally achieve academically alongside their hearing
peers.
The
integration of information technology in teaching is a central matter in
ensuring quality in the educational system. There are two equally important
reasons for integrating information technology in teaching. Pupils must become
familiar with the use of information technology, since all jobs in the society
of the future will be dependent on it, and information technology must be used
in teaching in order to improve its quality and make it more effective.
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