The Teaching of the ICT National Curriculum
“With scientific method, we took things apart to see how they work.
Now with computers we can put things back together to see how they
work, by modelling complex, interrelated processes, even life itself.
This is a new age of discovery, and ICT is the gateway”
ICT stands for Information and Communication Technology. In our
rapidly changing world the subject of ICT allows children to prepare
and participate in exploring, analysing, exchanging and presenting
information creatively. Through this children learn to have initiative
and independent learning.
ICT is able to support teaching, learning and a range of activities in
education. Such ICT-related activities include, for example, the use
of: Broadcast material or CD-ROM as sources of information in history;
Micro-computers with appropriate keyboards and other devices to teach
literacy and writing; Keyboards, effects and sequencers in music
teaching; Devices to facilitate communication for pupils with special
needs; Electronic toys to develop spatial awareness and psycho-motor
control; Email to support collaborative writing and sharing of
resources; Video-conferencing to support the teaching of modern
foreign languages; Internet-based research to support geographical
enquiry; Integrated learning systems (ILS) to teach basic Numeracy;
and communications technology to exchange administrative and
assessment data.
The present is a time of such accelerated change of ICT in schools.
Spending on computer equipment increased exponentially. Since 2002
more than 1.6 billion has been committed to ICT in education.
However, change on such a huge scale is not without difficulties and
much still depends on how the growth in funding for ICT in schools is
managed at the local level, either by the local education authority
(LEA) or by the management within the school.
Within the national curriculum there are strict guidelines for
knowledge, skills and understanding. In the section entitled Finding
Things Out 1a in particular states that children should be taught ‘to
talk about what information they need and how they can find and use
it’ not only is this specific to ICT but it can be used as cross
A mission and vision statement is important in order for an educator to remain focused on what one will like to accomplish within the classroom. Without a mission and vision statement one will have a harder time accomplishing their personal goals as well as their goals for the students.
Since the beginning of the evolution of technology, the way that people think and learn seems to have evolved simultaneously. Children understand technology at a much younger age and many times are called upon to help older generations use new technologies. Technology has become a large part of education in the last fifty years. Assessment software and technologies are available for almost every educator. However many teachers do not utilize Assessment software as intended because they lack training or understanding of the software. Integrating assessment software is imperative to gauging students’ progress. When the teacher is trained and the software is utilized as intended, assessment software can be a powerful teaching tool.
Not many people would argue that computer technology is bad for the K-12 classroom. There is, however, a serious and thought-provoking debate going on regarding computer technology in the classroom. At issue is to what extent and at what age should computers be integrated in American classrooms. There is no question that a certain level of technology will bring improvements in academic achievement. In one study on children of low socioeconomic status a definite improvement was seen. It was noted that, “Increasing the technology available to students encourages, facilitates, and supports student achievement – at the elementary level, the most profound effects were found in the area of mathematics” (Page 391). Page also states that, “numerous studies have demonstrated that young children’s self-esteem or self-concept directly affects their academic performance” (Page 391).
This paper will argue that online technology has a positive benefit on education and every school should use it. It keeps students engage in the concepts that are being taught because Teachers can use multi-media materials. To help aid to teach the concept and ideas they are teaching. The students have the pretty much the whole wide world of information at their fingertips to research topics. This allow for more in class research assignment to be used. The modern work field is requiring more familiarity with technology, teaching kids how too properly use online resources and technology can benefit them when they are placed in jobs that require the use of technology. The use of online gradebooks and assignment planners help students that miss school get needed work and keep their grades in checked.
It is now about fifteen years since microcomputers and therefore educational computing began to appear in schools. Since that time there has been much excitement with regard to the role that these machines would have on education in our schools. During that fifteen years, we have seen many examples of uses of computers in school. Teachers experimented with this technology in their teaching. These teachers spent many hours of their own time coming to grips with this technology and setting up activities.
What is an education? Education is defined as "the knowledge or skill obtained or developed by a learning process or an instructive or enlightening experience" (Dictionary 1).It says that it's the knowledge obtained, but does it matter where this knowledge is obtained? We now use computers in our society, which allow us to do many things. However, in today's society, children go through their entire education using the computer. There is now cyber schooling, where a child no longer attends school but learns at home in front of their computer. Should this, however, be how students learn and become educated?
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.
ICT stands for Information and communications technology which includes technologies which are made use to broadcast different forms of media, audiovisual processes transmission systems, network-based control and monitoring functions and to handle telecommunications . ICT is synonym for information technology (IT), but its scope of ICT is broader than IT.ICT tools can be used in different platforms like businesses, schools, offices, churches, in cars, planes, social media, movies and in music studios polities.
Modern technology has made it so much easier to obtain educational information for classroom or homework assignments. It offers educational games that stimulate the brain and help children who have difficulties focusing on traditional teaching and learning procedures. College students are even taking advantage of online courses that many colleges are offering as an alternative to physically attending classes. Advances in technology and computers will continue to play an important role in education for many generations to come.
The introduction of technology into education has revolutionized the teaching quality and learning outcome in the last ten years. The integration of technology into lectures by teachers in classroom has become so natural that both teachers and learners consider computers and their related applications for instruction are “a routine component of the classroom and educational processes in general” (Nuldén, 1999 cited in Buzzard et al., 2011, pp.131-139).
Computer technology is one the most innovative advancements in modern-day education. Technology has made its way into the world of teaching practice and principle by expanding the way we approach instruction in the classroom. We are no longer confined to pencil and paper, but have the ability to project and present knowledge in an enhanced way to capture the minds of a generation of students whose society is built around ever expanding world of computer technology.
Developing the Mathematics Curriculum: Using ICT Choosing a project Through discussion with my mentor, it was preliminary decided that my ICT project will be on something to do with shapes. I then went away and came back with some more specific ideas. These were: * An introduction to geometrical properties of quadrilaterals * An introduction to geometrical properties of triangles * Reflection and Rotation * Angles Once I had my ideas, I asked the teachers in the department what they would prefer the resource to be. Most thought that reflection and rotation was easier to teach than the others, and that more resources were available to them for that area of mathematics.
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The classroom is now changing its look from the traditional one i. e. from one way to two way communication. Now teachers as well as students participate in classroom discussion. Now Education is based on child centric education. So the teacher should prepare to cope up with different technology for using them in the classroom for making teaching learning interested. For effective implementation of certain student-centric methodologies such as project-based learning which puts the students in the role of active researches and technology becomes the appropriate tool. ICT has enabled better and swifter communication; presentation of ideas more effective and relevant way. It is an effective
Information and communications technology is a system used to control, manage, process and create information through telecommunications technology and computers. (Otherwise known as ICT). Although information and communications technology describes a large range of systems there are still some underlining common features.