Scope of ICT in Education
Scope of ICT in education
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in education is the mode of education that use information and communication technology to support, enhance and optimise the delivery of information. ICT is a vast scope in the field of education. At all levels of education, whether at school or colleges, ICT has promising results. These encompass the areas such as teaching-learning in and outside the classroom, in regular face-to- face set up or distance mode. Thus the scope of ICT can be discussed in detail under the following section:
1.Teaching-learning process:
The common use of ICT for teaching-learning includes preparation of notes, teaching-learning resources and examination. The best way of using ICT by teachers in teaching-learning process is to see that students are motivated to use technology which take care of concentration on technology or on the teacher at a given time in classroom.
2.Publication:
The educational uses of ICT for publication purpose is mainly to disseminate information or idea and share them with school community, public, governmental organisation within the country or abroad. These products of publication take the shape of newsletters by procuring the information related to an organisation governmental or non-governmental. While taking up publishing work, students play role such as editors, reporters, author and designers of the newsletter. Later they also plan, design, create and distribute them in and outside the school for the people concern.
3.Evaluation:
Evaluation is a significant part of teaching which comprises the learning process and also the provision feedback of learners. Teachers in traditional face-to-face situation use interaction such as an opportunity to provide feedbacks to learners, besides communicating their strength and weakness. With the advent of technological development, there is limited opportunity for face-to-face interaction. Now, teachers uses a combination of two forms of evaluation:
•Formative evaluation: This is used as a learning tool and to give and gain feedback on learner ability and performance. Formative evaluation can take the form of any one or many of the following types of assignments:
✓Portfolio
✓Reports, essay and journals
✓Case studies and scenarios
✓Online conference, discussion and synchronous
✓Oral examination
•Summative evaluation: It is an evaluative method for grading and makingba judgement about the participant's achievement in a course.
4.Research:
Products and process of ICT provide access to a lot of information on innumerable topics produced by people of diverse area and fields across the globe. This information is either singled out in combination of the form of text, images, sound, videos and animation. For research, sifting through a number of websites in search of relevant, authentic and high quality information is a challenging experiences. So while looking resources, one of the easiest and safest methods of researching is to use dictionaries.
5.Administration:
ICT for administration purposes includes the preparation of school assignment, reports, letters and student registration. ICT makes the work of heads of school easy and manageable and document storage saves a lot of space, as physical files are replaced by electronic ones.
6.Personal:
At the personal level, ICT is used for communication, personal development and entertainment purpose. Again, most usage will be to search for and store information, and submit online application-subscription, purchase or other personal uses.
Professional development:
ICT uses for professional development are indicated in searching for information for self-study and communication. This enhances teacher’s confidence in the area of specialization.
