Importance Of ICT In Education

1.0 Introduction

This article is designed to through some light in the current era of information and communication technologies importance in the education sector. ICT as a term includes a variety of hardware, software and telecommunications technologies that expedite communication and sharing of data across boundaries. ICT has become essential part of education in the modern past due to the increased usage of internet by the parent and children. One of the most advantage of ICT is, it can reach the target audience with in no time and can be accessed 24 hours. The teachers also find it easy to give homework or assignment through a shared internet based space as the learners can access it from anywhere any time. There are lots of videos available

Teachers can access lot of updated information and material from the web sites using internet. Moreover, there are forums run by teachers from different countries and different education institutions helps the teachers to try and implement new teaching methodology in their teaching process.

2.0 Importance of ICT with reasoning and literature

This literature details about the prominence of ICT in education system. All the reasoning and literature is established on the information available on internet and book research. The author has conducted experimental study with grade 1 to 3 students using smart board, Television, tablet, CD player, computer and internet connection.

2.1 Learning with ICT

Interested students will learn very fast and then they teach their friends in the class. This will boost the both learners by teaching and learning. A computer lab in the school can be used for the same. This method of ICT is much useful for the lower grade students to learn words. Moreover, alogodoo free software for computers can be used to learn physics theories easily without going the lab. This software will help the students to learn about gravity, friction and density. Gapminder is also a free tool which helps the students to understand statistics for higher grade students. This is based on the videos by Hans Rosling and Gapminder. For the economics and social studies students who are above grade 8 can check out http://factlab.com this helps to compare the facts between countries. Similarly, index mundi at http://www.indexmundi.com helps the higher grade students of higher secondary and graduate students to understand the economic parameters and demographic data by comparing between