1. SCOPE OF ICT IN EDUCATION
ICT has a vast scope in the field of education. At all levels of
education, whether at school or college, ICT has promising results.
These encompass the areas such as teaching-learning in and outside
the classroom, in regular face-to-face set up or distance mode. Thus,
the scope of ICT in education can be discussed in details under the
following section:
1. Teaching-learning process:
The common use of ICT for teaching learning includes
preparation for notes, teaching learning resources and
examinations. This does not such simple use by involving
students to use ICT so as to transfer student’s learning. The
best way of using ICT by teachers in teaching-learning process is
to see that students are motivated to use technology which
take care of concentration on technology or on the teacher at a
given time in classroom.
2. Publication:
The educational uses of ICT for publication purpose is mainly to
disseminate information or ideas and share them with the
school community, public, governmental organisation within
the country or abroad. These products of publication take the
shape of a newsletter by procuring the information related to
an organization governmental or non-governmental. While
taking up publishing work, students play roles such as editors,
reporters, author and designers of the newsletter. Later they
also plan, design, create and distribute them in and outside the
school for the people concern.
3. Evaluation:
Evaluation is a significant part of teaching which comprises the
learning process and also the provision feedback to learners.
2. Teachers in traditional face-to-face situations use interaction as
an opportunity to provide feedbacks to learners, besides
communicating their strength and weakness. With the advent
of technological developments, there is limited opportunity for
face-to-face interaction. Now, teacher uses a combination of
two forms of evaluation:
i. Formative evaluation: This is used as a learning tool, and
to give and gain feedback on leaner ability and
performance. Formative evaluation can take the form of
any one or many of the following types of assignments:
Portfolios
Reports, essay and journals
Case studies and scenarios
Online conference discussions and synchronous
Oral examination
ii. Summative evaluation: This is an evaluative method for
grading and making a judgement about the participant’s
achievement in a course.
4. Research:
Products and processes of ICT provide access to a lot of
information on innumerable topics produced by people of
diverse area and fields across the globe. This information is
either singled out in combination of the form of text, images,
sounds, videos and animation. For research, sifting through a
number of websites in search of relevant, authentic and high
quality information is a challenging experience. So, while
looking resources one of the easiest and safest methods of
researching is to use directories. These aspects lead to
collaboration of research work in which the different areas or
process of the research project can be shared to produce
quality results and achieve the desired goals.
3. 5. Administration:
ICT for administration purpose include the preparation of
school announcement, reports, letters and student registration.
ICT makes the work of heads of school easy and manageable
and document storage saves a lot of space, as physical files are
replaced by electronic ones.
6. Personal:
At the personal level, ICT is used for communication, personal
development and entertainment purpose. Again, most usage
will be to search for and store information, and submit online
application-subscription, purchase or other personal uses.
7. Professional development:
ICT uses for professional development are indicated in
searching for information for self-study and communication.
This enhances teacher’s confidence in their areas of
specialization. To further their teaching career, few teacher
uses ICT and consequently motivate others to use ICT.
