What is ICT and why is it important

What is ICT and why is it important in education? Dilay Ergün Cihan Çınkı

What is ICT? �Lets focus on the three words behind ICT: �- INFORMATION - COMMUNICATIONS - TECHNOLOGY A good way to think about ICT is to consider all the uses of digital technology that already exist to help individuals, businesses and organisations use information:

ICT covers any product that will store, retrieve, manipulate, transmit or receive information electronically in a digital form. For example, personal computers, digital television, email, robots. �ICT is concerned with the storage, retrieval, manipulation, transmission or receipt of digital data. Importantly, it is also concerned with the way these different uses can work with each other.

Why is ICT important in education? ICTs have the potential for increasing access to and improving the relevance and quality of education.

Benefits of ICT could be said as: 1)Motivation � ways of gaining learners’ attention �Support for manual operations in high level learning �Illustrations of real world relevance �Engagment in production work �Connections with distance audiences

2)Enhanced ınstructional methods

3)Increased productivity �Saving time on production tasks �Grading and tracking student work �Faster access to information sources �Saving money on consumable materials

4)Required ınformation Age skills �Technical literacy �Information literacy �Visual literacy

What about disadvantages?

• Cost • Training • Distractions • Reliability • Damage • Safety • Hacking • Resources (or lack of)

And also �Prevents students from developing good, handwriting, spelling, grammar skills etc. * In exams, students will need to use a pen and not being used to handwriting pieces of work may mean in the exam the students will suffer from writer's fatigue. * Actively writing notes has been shown to help some students learn. * Students may be more likely to read notes they have written themselves, rather than ones that have simply been written and printed off by someone else. * Significant periods of time spent on computers can lead to headaches, eyesight problems, repetitive strain injury etc.

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