As
the advent of laptops and broadband services have given a whole new
meaning to innovation in technology and access to internet, ample of
people these days, from across the globe are spending more time online,
performing different chores like e-shopping and boosting their
entrepreneurial activities from the comfort zone of their home. The list
is not just limited to that, but also listening to radio, playing
e-games, using social media sites, or chats online with their loved
ones, all that also falls in this category. If we look meticulously,
each one of us has one active email account on Yahoo, Google and
Hotmail. Moreover youngsters are seen to be more inclined towards
internet addiction these days, particularly towards the latest
inventions like iPad and the other newest forms of technology.
We
mostly use technology either to have fun, to stay in connection with our
loved ones or for business purposes, but have you ever wondered how
often have we used it in our education? Are your school systems and
technology advanced enough that your children are submitting their
assignments through email or online? Are your teachers so up-to-date
with the latest technology that they are taking help of presentations
and documentaries available online to teach students from primary and
secondary levels instead of just adhering to the allocated syllabus and
documentaries? Most probably you must've never pondered over it! Before
we shed light over why not, we must first look into why we should use
Information and Communications Technology (ICT) into our classrooms.
When
integrated into classrooms ICT does not only add immense value to the
quality of your teaching but also offers a holistic learning experience
for pupils. This form of technology makes education much easier and
visual for children, saves their time, and opens more avenues for young
scholars to make their assignments more creatively and productively. If
incorporated wisely into the system, this form of technology can make
complicated and trivialized concepts more comprehensible and simple for
children. Moreover this facility will also give them the opportunity to
become a part of the IT village globally, improving their communication
and technical skills.
ICT also makes any topic more interesting,
as teachers get a wide-selection of pictures, movies, spreadsheets and
the online quizzes to conduct with their lesson plans. With the
interactive classroom sessions and student participation one can be
certain that this technology elevates the prospects for any institution
of producing well-informed and tech savvy individuals who are enough
competent enough to survive in the saturated job market of the 21st
century.
This brings our attention to the fact that if ICT can
help a teaching system that much then why it hasn't been incorporated
yet. This is perhaps because many teachers treat ICT as a stand-alone
activity. They don't consider it important enough to make it a part of
their lesson plans and the curriculum. Most of the teachers even these
days prefer using a white board or a black board to explain all the
topics. This conventional way of teaching certainly works. However
students face innumerable dilemmas in memorizing the concepts for longer
time spans and forget them as soon as their term gets over.
It
would be better if teachers encourage children to participate into
online activities, graphs, videos, templates, databases, graphs, and
presentations in their lesson plans to make all the explanations more
clear and engaging. Such resources are conveniently available on various
educational portals that are user-friendly and offer convenient
services to the users.
Students can also be encouraged to write online essays, reports, observations and essays. With the latest invention of Google Pixel
it has now become more convenient for them to plan, organize, draft and
proof read their present work and save it with minimal errors.
With
ICT the most boring subjects like mathematics and science can also
bring life to their most boring lessons. For example instead of drawing
the pie and bar charts on the whiteboard, which are mostly not even
clear, they can garner data online or through textbooks and MS Word and
explain it through charts on PowerPoint or Word to give in-depth details
to students on a particular topic. On their end also this will help
them to represent their data professionally in different colleges,
universities, and various other work places in the longer term in their
career.
If practiced rationally, ICT can reshape the face of
entire education system. However to achievement of this goal requires
meticulous planning of the structure that can bring positive difference
in the ways our students learn.
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