Markentut: assignment 2

ICT TOOLS, ROLES, AND APPLICATIONS in education

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Nowadays ICT has been an important part of human beings. We almost use ICT in every single activities especially in educational activity. Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) content in English enables students to develop and apply skills, knowledge and understanding of ICT in their composing, responding and presenting, and as part of the imaginative and critical thinking they undertake in English. The ICT content has been incorporated into the content of this syllabus to ensure that all students have the opportunity to become competent, discriminating and creative users of ICT and are better able to demonstrate the syllabus outcomes of English through the effective use of ICT.

In their study of English, students are able to apply their existing knowledge of word processing, multimedia, ways of formatting and presenting texts, simulation software, graphics and electronic communication and further develop their skills, knowledge and understanding of these technologies. They learn about the ethics of information communication through technology.

Educational ICT tools can be divided into 3 categories: Input source, Output source and Others. Input source for example: visualiser/ document camera, PC, tablet, aplication software. Output source for example: projector, interactive white board, printer, and monitor.

The roles of ICT in education are, through ICT, images can easily be used in teaching and improving the retentive memory of students, teacher can easily explain complex instructions and ensure students’ comprehension. And teachers are able to create interactive classes and make the lessons more enjoyable, which could improve student attendance and concentration.