3rd Posting: The Impact of Using ICT Technology in Education

hi…..we met again…Assalamualaikum…this 3rd posting was the hardest and challenging task that i have done which have taught me a lot about how using  an e-journal in the correct order.Thanks to my beloved datin Norizan because gives me this great opportunity…i’m choosing the title ‘the impact of using ICT technology in education’ because i know that i will learn something that have huge benificial to me in guidance me through learning onward.. InsyaAllah…

THE IMPACT OF USING ICT TECHNOLOGY  IN EDUCATION  

            There is widespread believed that Information and Communication Technology (ICT) can empower teachers and learners make a change appropriately through the development of ‘21^st century skills. According to the article of Knowledge Maps: ICTs in Education, “transforming teaching and learning processes from being highly teacher-dominated to student-centered, and that this transformation will result in increased learning gains for students. That are creating and allowing for opportunities for learners to develop their creativity, problem-solving abilities, informational reasoning skills, communication skills, and other higher-order thinking skills”. In depth, if we take a look at the benefits that the ICTs technology gave towards the learning process, it is tremendously great in enhance the capability of the education in terms of giving all kinds of people getting more knowledgeable.

First of all, the impact of using ICT technology in education is it is successfully created a kind of learning system which is called a distance education. It is increasingly uses combinations of different communications technologies to enhance the abilities of teachers and students to communicate with each other. From the same article we have found that with the spread of computer-network communications in the 1980s and 1990s, large numbers of people gained access to computers linked to telephone lines, allowing teachers and students to communicate in conferences via computers. Other than that, distance education also makes use of computer conferencing on the World Wide Web (www), where teachers and students present text, pictures, audio, and occasionally video. A conferencing method known as one-way video/two-way audio uses television pictures that are transmitted to particular sites, where people can reply to the broadcasters with a telephone call-in system. Television pictures can also be transmitted in two directions simultaneously through telephone lines, so that teachers and students in one place can see and hear teachers and students in other places. This is called video-conferencing. Each medium of distance education have played many of advantages. For example, a student may watch an instructor’s lecture on a video monitor, gives feedback with responding to the questions through electronic mail (e-mail) on a computer, and then participate in class discussions through telephone audio-conferencing. On that matter usually this kind of learning are include a highly amount in terms of cost; so, it is generally has been made at the place which has relatively large audiences and wide geographic areas. As a result, distance education opens educational opportunity to the unreached community. It also enables more people to extend the time of their education from a limited number of studying years to a lifelong learning process. In addition, it changes power and authority relationships between teachers and learners, often encouraging more equal and open communication than occurs in conventional educational settings. Because distance education enables institutions to reach students all over the world.

The second impact of ICT technology through education is enabling a knowledge network for students. Knowledge being as the crucial input for productive processes within today’s economy, the efficiency by which knowledge is acquired and applied reflect to the economic success.  Effective use of ICTs can contribute to the timely transmission of information and knowledge, thereby helping education systems meets this challenge. With the use of variety software and hardware students could manage their learning process more informative way and lots of fun without worrying about the teachers who is actually have emotion that change over time and the students have to controlled and limit their ability according to the traditional way of learning system. On that way, engagement of ICT in learning alters traditional teacher-student relationships, and, as a result, there are changes in the roles of the principle educational actors. Change of organisation in the classroom appears to be caused by the combined effect of the media being used and the teaching approach being applied that of placing emphasis on the learning processes rather than the outcomes, and on social learning rather than individual learning. The strategies are oriented due to; collaborative learning, project-based learning, self learning, and communicative strategies to learning. According to Gibson (2004, 17) asserts that educational leaders have a narrow view of what constitutes IL(ICT literacy) they instruct students in how to find, evaluate, and manage information, but that they miss, in his words. “The sense of how information is experienced.” .

Training teachers is one of the best results that technology has created. The impact on the way teacher nowadays teaches completely different which it is being more effective and enjoyable. Large numbers of school teachers will be needed to meet the Millennium Development Goals for education.  The use of ICTs can help in meeting teacher training targets.  Moreover, ICTs provide opportunities to complement on the job training and continuing education for teachers. Positive impact more likely when linked to pedagogy. It is believed that specific uses of ICT can have positive effects on student achievement when ICTs are used appropriately to complement a teacher’s existing pedagogical philosophies. There is an important tension between traditional versus ‘new’ pedagogies and standardized testing Traditional, transmission-type pedagogies are seen as more effective in preparation for standardized testing, which tends to measure the results of such teaching practices, than are more ‘constructivist’ pedagogical styles. Learning environments in schools typically involve one or more adult teachers connected

with a number of students, usually in well defined physical settings. These people interact

and form a variety of relationships, creating what Salomon (1994) calls “a system of

interrelated factors that jointly affect learning in interaction with (but separately from) relevant individual and cultural differences” (p. 80).

             Furthermore, broadening the availability of quality education materials Network technologies have the potential to increase the availability of quality educational materials.  Their interactivity and global reach allow for customized sharing of knowledge, materials, and databases, quickly and cheaply over long geographic distances.  Furthermore, online resources offer teachers access to a vast and diverse collection of educational materials, enabling them to design curricula that best meet the needs of their students. Many aspects of contemporary connectivity (e-mail, chat sessions, interactive games and simulations, multiparty projects and research) will help schools overcome impediments to quality education for all. Connectivity is benignly blind, often more forgiving than an instructor, willing to repeat something until the learner masters it, and always ready. It also encourages branching out into related topics. A connected school has much to offer students who speak little or no English. While English may be the dominant language used in international connectivity, a non-English speaker can become just as proficient by navigating the abundant non-English World Wide Web resources. Due to the report from How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School Schools and classrooms must be learner centred (p.23); to provide a knowledge-centred classroom environment, attention must be given to what is taught (information, subject matter), why it is taught (understanding), and what competence or mastery looks like (p.24); formative assessments – ongoing assessments designed to make students’ thinking visible to both teachers and students are essential. They permit the teacher to grasp the students’ preconceptions, understand where the students are in the “developmental corridor” from informal to formal thinking, and design instruction accordingly. In the assessment-centred classroom environment, formative assessments help both teachers and students monitor progress. (p. 24); Learning is influenced in fundamental ways by the context in which it takes place. A community-centred approach requires the development of norms for the classroom and school, as well as connections to the outside world, that support core learning values. (p. 25). 

Finally, enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of educational administration and policy also affected by the assist of technology facilities. New technologies can help improve the quality of administrative activities and processes, including human resource management, student registration, and monitoring of student enrollment and achievement. It is also will help small and remote schools produce graduates ready to compete in technological job markets or in postsecondary studies. As usual technology nowadays is like a compulsory to a students have the skills literacy in handling any of the ICTs technology equipment as the necessity in the work sector.

 In conclusion, Information and Communication Technology played a very important role in today education world. Without technology we don’t have the ability to conquer the world and make the way how the knowledge evolves more interesting and effective. The impact that we have found are ICTs technology has created a distance education, enabling a knowledge network for students, training teachers, broadening the availability of quality education materials, and enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of educational administration and policy. In my personal opinion we must always support and keep shaping our skills towards master in ICT literacy to ensure the flow of education always goes parallel with a new technology in the future. 

References:1.      Education full text; Wilson web; ICT and Education2.      MSN Encarta; distance education; ICT and Education; Measuring The Impact of ICT Use          in Education.3.      www.cnet.com; ICT in Education.4.      ProQuest Dissertations & Theses; Knowledge Maps: ICTs in Education5.      EBSCOhost; The Impact of ICT on Learning and Teaching6.      SCOPUS; Impact of ICT.