Role of ICT in Education

Role
of
INTERNET
in
education
Nowadays the role of internet in the education sector plays an important role,
especially in the process of empowering the technology into the learning activities.
Education sector can be the most effective sector to anticipate and eliminate the
negative impact of internet. In another side it can be the most effective way to
increase the students knowledge. Being aware of the significant role of internet in
our life, education authorities should be wise enough in implementing the strategies
to empower internet in supporting the teaching and learning process in the
classroom. Internet is not just the bloom of the educational activities, but also it will
be the secondary option to improve the effective and meaningful educational
process.
First of all, internet has introduced improvements in technology, communication and
online entertainment, but it is also extremely useful for education purposes as well.
Teachers use the Internet to supplement their lessons, and a number of universities
have opened up free online lectures and courses to everyone.
Enhanced Lessons
Besides that, teacher can make use of the Internet by giving students extra
resources and material from the Internet, such as interactive lessons and
educational games. Many college courses use a "hybrid" model where many lessons
are done online, this saves students from having their heavy textbooks every day.
This is because, tests, homework, collaboration and research all be done from any
computer with Internet access.
Study and Research
Moreover, internet contains a wealth of knowledge that is available directly upon any
search. Many teachers will now ask students to visit specific websites to study from
home, and online encyclopedia provides lots of knowledge on almost every topic.
The variety of sources allows students to practise subjects in much greater detail
rather than being limited to whatever the teacher sends home.
Communication
Other than that, It used to be that students that forgot work, missed a lecture or
couldn't remember an assignment were out of luck until talking face to face with a
teacher or a classmate. However, the Internet allows immediate connection to your
classmates and teachers. Improving communication between students and teachers
allows teachers to assist students without having to stay after class. It also allows for
students to have greater efficiency when working on projects with their peers when
everyone cannot attend or asking for clarification when something is unclear.
Accessibility
A number of universities, such as Harvard, Yale and Stanford, have opened up free
courses on a variety of subjects that are accessible to anyone for free. These
typically come in the form of lectures on video, but some also have notes attached.
This means there is easy access to plenty of free lectures without emptying your
bank account to pay tuition. The Internet also makes education accessible to
impoverished communities. The "Granny Cloud," for example, made use of Skype as
a number of volunteers, mostly retired teachers, read stories aloud over Skype to
children in India to teach them how to read.
Significance of IT in education
Access to variety of learning resources
Using the internet it can enhance the teaching skills and learning ability. With the
help of it, now it is easy to provide audio visual education. The learning resources
are being widens and widen. Now with this vivid and vast technique as part of the IT
curriculum, learners are encouraged to regard computers as tools to be used in all
aspects of their studies. In particular, they need to make use of the new multimedia
technologies to communicate ideas, describe projects, and order information in their
work.
Immediacy to information
Internet also has provided immediacy to education. Now in the year of computers
and web networks the pace of imparting knowledge is very fast and one can be
educated anywhere at any time. New IT has often been introduced into wellestablished patterns of working and living without radically altering them. For
example, the traditional office, with secretaries working at keyboards and notes
being written on paper and manually exchanged, has remained remarkably stable,
even if personal computers have replaced typewriters.
Collaborative learning
Now internet has made it easy to study as well as teach in groups or in clusters. With
online we can be unite together to do the desired task. Efficient postal systems, the
telephone (fixed and mobile), and various recording and playback systems based on
computer technology all have a part to play in educational broadcasting in the new
millennium. The Internet and its Web sites are now familiar to many children in
developed countries and among educational elites elsewhere, but it remains of little
significance to very many more, who lack the most basic means for subsistence.
Multimedia approach to education
Audio-Visual Education, planning, preparation, and use of devices and materials that
involve sight, sound, or both, for educational purposes. Among the devices used are
still and motion pictures, filmstrips, television, transparencies, audiotapes, records,
teaching machines, computers, and videodiscs. The growth of audio-visual
education has reflected developments in both technology and learning theory.
Authentic and up to date information
The information and data which are available on the net is purely correct and up to
date.
Internet, a collection of computer networks that operate to common standards and
enable the computers and the programs they run to communicate directly provides
true and correct information.
Online library
Internets support thousands of different kinds of operational and experimental

services one of which is online library. We can get plenty of data on this online
library.
Beside that, learners are encouraged to regard computers as tools to be used in all
aspects of their studies. In particular, they need to make use of the new multimedia
technologies to communicate ideas, describe projects, and order information in their
work. This requires them to select the medium best suited to conveying their
message, to structure information in a hierarchical manner, and to link together
information to produce a multidimensional document.
As a conclusion, internet has been developing very rapidly nowadays. Therefore, in
order to balance it, the whole educational system should be reformed and internet
should be integrated into educational activities. The influence of internet cannot be
ignored in our students lives. As an educational they must know how to use the
internet in the good ways in order to make learning more interesting and meaningful.

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