The Beginnings
The turn of the 21st century ushered in the Digital Revolution, as various forms of technology formed indispensable parts of our everyday lives. A careful observation of a 24-hour day in our lives will reveal how our activities, directly or indirectly, involve varied technologies. We watch television, listen to the radio, use our mobile phones, pay bills, get in touch with friends, or search for some information. All these activities use some kind of technology. This age of massive growth of technology in a rapidly changing global economy, is the Information Age, which we live in today. It is an age dominated with technology, information exchange, knowledge sharing, and communication. And among all this, it is an age in which
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Our present education system needs to recognize this. It needs to create suitable conditions to better prepare students for a future, in which learning never stops. Schools need to equip students with skills that enable continuous lifelong learning. In other words, schools need to encourage “learning to learn”. It is here that Information and Communications Technology (ICT) comes into play. It comes with a potential for introducing the much desirable transformation in education. ICT provides an opportunity to revolutionize education. It comes with a promise to extend educational abilities and opportunities by offering a range of learning experiences. ICT offers the ability to strengthen the relevance of education to increasingly digital workplaces in a globalized world. It thus, potentially corresponds to the current and future phases of human civilization.
What do we know about ICT?
With the promise that ICT brings in transforming education, we must first understand what ICT means. As mentioned earlier, ICT stands for Information and Communications Technology, which relates to the wide range of technologies that are used to access, collect, process, and share information. According to the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), ICTs are defined as,
“a diverse set of technological tools and resources used to communicate, and to create, disseminate, store, and
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By using different forms of ICT, the teacher can extend students’ learning into a collaborative group project for presentation. As we have seen, ICT can provide opportunities for collaboration and sharing. For instance, let’s imagine students working on a Civic Education group project on road safety. For this, students can find the pictures of traffic signs and roads from the Internet. They can communicate and interact with each other about the progress they make, by using email. Finally, they can share their project through on the class network or social media network with their family and friends. As students engage, interact, and share with the help of ICT, we can see that ICT motivates students to participate in a meaningful and relevant learning
With the exponential growth of technology, we now live simpler lives merely due to one of the factors of the technology world that is widely known as the Internet ─ where almost everything is readily available with an effortless push of a button. We are able to get more information quicker and easier from Google or any search engine really, than we ever could in the past, particularly, about topics that we would never fathom to research. The Internet is evolving into something so monumental, making it impossible to picture a world, say forty to fifty some years ago, where it was hardly a thought, let alone an invention. Furthermore, as human nature leads the development of new technologies capable of impacting or helping the human race; if
In this article, Ferriter (2009) reveals many benefits from the use of technology in the classroom with our 21st-century learners. The resources and suggestions mentioned throughout this reading will assist teachers in ways to avoid problems and becoming engaging instructors by using technology in innovative ways. What I found was so innovative by this approach was by creating a network of innovative co-learners where collaboration takes place regularly, Ferriter (2009), is able to experiment with digital connections without ever meeting other teachers in person. Not only is this beneficial for students and teachers all over the world, but also simple. What I found was unique and useful was the worldwide collaboration that helps teachers explore skills and dispositions that assisted with the network cooperation by creating shared content.
The internet has been, arguably, the most influential form of technology to be introduced in the past hundred years. With this creation, the world as we know it has been connected in ways that were never dreamed of before. Peoples from thousands of miles away are able to converse and spread their ideas with a simple push of a button. Cultures have interacted like never before. This, in return, has caused a new information age that has enlightened the world as we start the 21st century.
People rely on technology for many things. Phones, laptops, and tablets can be used for social networking, researching for a school assignments, to quickly looking up information
The attraction towards technology has triggered a change in the way people live today. Many people are fascinated by technology; some may even say to the point of addiction. This is because everything we will ever need is right at the tip of our fingers. For example, there are more than 500 million active users on the app known as Facebook. According to Document E, the company develops technologies that facilitate the sharing of information through the social graph, the digital mapping of people's real-world social
i. The School and College Administration should be bound to Revise practices, policies, and regulations to ensure complete privacy and information protection while enabling a model of assessment that includes ongoing gathering and sharing of data for continuous improvement of learning and teaching. ii. The School and College Administration should design, develop, and implement learning dashboards, response systems, and communication pathways that give students, educators, families, and other stakeholders timely and actionable feedback about student learning to improve achievement and instructional practices. iii. The School and College Administration Should Create and validate an integrated system for designing and implementing valid, reliable, and cost-effective
Using technology on a daily basis can improve our skills for our future jobs. According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, “More than 50% of today’s jobs require some degree of technology skills, experts say that percentage will increase to 77% in the next decade”
Our thought processes, in short, begin to mirror the way a computer processes things in terms of efficiency and data processing. Today, it seems that almost everything is on or reliant upon the Internet. It is “becoming our map and our clock, our printing press and our typewriter, our calculator and our telephone, and our radio and TV,” Carr says (321). The Internet interconnects everything we do in the media age.
Too much screen use induces less communication between people and more time spent using technology. Technology used in our society in the same way. Sometimes people use television to forget about a hard time at work, others using phones in public, so they don’t have to interact with other people. “Little by little, technology has become an integral part of the way that people communicate with one another and has increasingly taken the place of face-to-face communication. Due to the rapid expansion of technology, many individuals fear that people may be too immersed in this digital world and not present enough in the real world,”.
Clay Shirky, the author of “Does the internet make you smarter?” wrote about how ignorance has poisoned the internet with incorrect information. Not only does technology has its flaws, but so do books and novels dating back to the Protestant Reformation. Even though many people are against the internet Shirky reassures that if used correctly and appropriately, then it can become a very useful tool that can “tap our cognitive surplus”. The increased collaboration of technology is important to society for the reason that the internet is full of valuable knowledge that can be claimed very quickly and easily. Increased collaboration is absolutely a benefit.
Technology has shaped society and how people go about their day as it has impacted every detail in people’s lives. Technology has improved communication, education, and even medical clinicians. However, there are multiple downside to technology, especially when used incorrectly. It can lead to hacking, leaks, and people relying too heavily on it. It is argued that we are too reliant as is, and everyday we get lazy because of it.
Multiple countries throughout the world have internet access at their fingertips and are able to find the answer to their questions instantly. “As of June 2017, 51% of the world’s population has internet access. In 2015, the International Telecommunication Union estimated about 3.2 billion people, or almost half of the world’s population, would be online by the end of the year” (Gordon). Billions of people use the Internet each and every day to research topics, check their social media, and communicate. The nation as a whole has become extremely dependent on technology to do their work and survive through the day.
Technology has always been progressing thus it is rampant in our society today. We use technology; depend on technology in our daily life and our needs and demands for technology keep on rising (Ramey, 2012). Wherever you look, you will see people holding different kinds of technology like cell phone, laptop, tablets and etc. It appears to most of us that technology is a necessity to the point where we can no longer live without it. According to Gavin (2013), technology moves at a rapid pace, and can be hard to keep up with at times.
Technology and new innovations are welcome in the society of the twenty-first century. Technology is advancing every year, and it is being integrated into everyone’s daily life. Technology like smartphones, computers, smartwatches, smart glasses, smart tv’s, and game consoles are being incorporated into people’s homes, jobs, education, transportation, and medicine. Technology makes it easier for people to communicate effortlessly over long distances. People have the ability to search for an abundance of information at their fingertips.
Students have benefited from the easy accessibility of digital communication allowing them to interact with peers and families. In my