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Thursday, March 20, 2008

THIRD POSTING - IMPACTS OF USING ICT AND WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY IN EDUCATION

Hello everyone! This is my third posting which discusses about the impact of using ICT and wireless technology in few aspects. What is ICT stand for? Did you all know that? For your information ICT stand for INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY .For this posting I have choose a topic which sound as THE IMPACT OF USING ICT AND WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY IN EDUCATION. On this week I want to give brief information about this task. All the information’s were I get for this task is based on my findings were done at Perpustakaan Tun Sri Lanang (PTSL) - electronic journal. My findings are based on few sites such as SCOPUS, EBSHOST and Pro Quest. Before I start my description more deeply I want to explain the meaning of each words in my topic.

What is the meaning of IMPACT? According to Longman Dictionary Contemporary English, (THIRD EDITION, 2001) IMPACT is clarified as the effect or influence that an event. USING is clarified as when you use something or you do something with it for a purpose. While I cannot identify the meaning of ICT using dictionary. But I have fined the meaning of this word by using online. Below I have jotted about it:

Based on online search, ICT has a lot of definitions. So I have post a link here. Click the link and you will get definition of this word. http://searchciomidmarket.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid183_gci928405,00.html.

But to make you easier I written some of the meaning of this word. ICT is defined as an umbrella term that includes any communication device or application, encompassing: radio, television, cellular phones, computer and network hardware and software, satellite systems and so on, as well as the various services and applications associated with them, such as videoconferencing and distance learning. ICTs are often spoken of in a particular context, such as ICTs in education, health care, or libraries. The importance of ICTs lies less in the technology itself than in its ability to create greater access to information and communication in underserved populations. Many countries around the world have established organizations for the promotion of ICTs, because it is feared that unless less technologically advanced areas have a chance to catch up, the increasing technological advances in developed nations will only serve to exacerbate the already-existing economic gap between technological "have" and "have not" areas. Here, I can conclude that ICT is related to the technology and it plays a big role in the society. If we look closer and according to some researches almost each single thing we do now is depending on the technology. In this era, ICT is necessary and it’s hard to survive our life without it.

As I mention earlier, now I want to discuss about the impact of using ICT in education. Regarding to education, ICT helps the students a lot and in many ways. There are many subjects were offer to students and ICT benefits a lot in each subject. So that, with the knowledge that I have according this and according to some websites that I have worked on, I want to give a little bit of explanation about the effects.

In this century, ICT has connected to the teaching that makes the teaching process become more interesting. In the past, teaching process was done by depending to the text books, note books and teachers capability. In the other hand the teachers teach the students by just using a blackboard and cannot take any information’s from the Internet. This situation makes the students knowledge about it is very limited. All they can do is to teach them with by using just paper and notes. But nowadays the teaching process are totally different some more after the ICT. The changes in education after ICT are the calculation such as using graphic calculator, forget notes using Internet and for experiment using the high technology lab gadgets. Besides that, images and graphics can be showed to students because of ICT. By this no one cannot deny that nowadays teaching, including or linked to the technologies that has made teaching more easily.

But now the most popular and easiest way to get information about education is Internet. Through the Internet, the students can access world wide information’s which helps them in their studies. Apart from that Internet too help the students communicate with their coachers if got any doubt regarding their subjects or education. All the networks are provides resources to the users. This type of learning and teaching strategies make the students more interested in studies and might be more active, participate and collaboration in this field. It helps them to perform much better in their studies. Besides that, the ICT can make the teachers to perform better lessons, assessment tools, and useful information’s and lab exercises. With the technological skills in education we able to make the students closer to education and expand their knowledge in study area. Regarding to Internet, the electronic mail (email) is also one of the impacts of using ICT in education. Everyone in this world used email to contact or chatting with a person and it makes everything possible. As we all know a lot of assignments were done by students are sent using the email. The uses of email save the students time and money where no need to spend in printing. For this, the example is our own where we just post all our answers for the work were given by our beloved Datin by online.


Nowadays we can say that, most of the classrooms in each school are uses ICT such as computer and data projector. This situation proves the impact of ICT in education and helps the lessons to be more efficient and attractive. We can also see the impact of using ICT through the student’s participation and involvements in class or group works. Along that, the Internet is increasingly being used in teaching and used more frequent by the students to get source of information.

At these days, the other impact of using ICT that we can hear and see clearly is distance learning. Even though distance learning gives benefits to some people but it is still giving problem to teachers and students. For example, a study on distance learning in United Kingdom articulates several problems which involve high cost of expenses, level of skills required and the challenging patterns of styles required. Here, the students are compared to the electronic pets (Tamagotchi’s) that required constant and labor-intensive care (Miller et al 2001).

Other than that, the use of ICT can be seen by the usage of laptop. Through the laptop a person can do his or her work at any place and any time. Furthermore it’s easy to access to the Internet at any time with wireless connection. These types of facilities are found by the ICT and it makes our life easier when the laptops can be connected to the projector easily. In this century, wireless technology become very familiar and created a very big impact. References on this information can be viewed at the websites below. For this third posting I just can explain until here. I hope by reading this some of you will get some knowledge regarding the topic that I have been chosen. Thank you and don’t forget to take a look on the links:



http://www.infomuworld.com/smpp/content
http://www.scopus.com/scopus/record/display.url?view=basic&eid=2-s2.0-

http://www.springerlink.com/content/pq66400qh831n143/fulltext.html

1 comments:

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