Tuesday 8 January 2013

Education and ICT

Education and ICT

ICT is used is school is now fundamentally in every room there is an electronic board witch is used by teachers and students. There is no chalk board is schools anymore. Teachers reliable on IT the whole process of checking the  register is taken on a software called “SIM” it holds every central information of a students, for example their address, date of birth, parents details, emergency contacts etc. I was brought up in Poland and I was a student there form 2002 till 2010 and there was just 2 computer rooms, most of the work was done on the paper written by hand and computers were only used for ICT lessons. Now the ICT is used none-stop. Teachers are using ICT to communicate with students by email for example. Also my schools are in hold with software called Frog where teachers post any homework that has been set up, for people and giving them a deadline for when the home work. Most of the schools and teachers also contact with parents of the pupils by email or phones. My school wants to even invent tables for pupils in year 7 so they can do there work anywhere they want. I personally think pupils in year 7 will use the tables for all wrong ways for example playing games where there are people in sixth form who spend so much time trying to look for a computer room where they can do there work, also most of the people in year 12 or 13 have lessons after school so they can do their work on the tablet on their way home. Also the tables are and expensive investigation so if the school actually wants to spend that much amount of money then why not give it to more responsible people that can take care of it. ICT took a major part on the pupils and teachers there is a lot of advantages like: letters look more professional written on a computer and it’s easy to read; high quality; automatic spell check/ grammar check (you don’t have to worry about your spelling mistakes because the computer will spot it for you easy enough and even if it won’t correct it for you the software will give you some options to chose from so you can improve on your work.). Within the advantages there is few disadvantages coming along: people attend to copy and past stuff sometimes without even reading it; not a lot of things is done by hand nowadays so peoples hand writing got worse and they don’t do it a lot; spending too much time in front of the computer effect our eyesight (there is few things you can do to increase the risk of loosing your good sight. You can either install an antiglare screen protector or you can buy one of the ultraviolet computer mirror screen protector, but this only increase the risk.) When I’m thinking about how it was before in school when the technology was not so popular I cannot really say if it was better but I know people now got use to the fact that computers do post of the things for them and they relay on the machine so much. Information and communications technology has developed so well I just hope it won’t get over us too much. I see a lot of changes in ICT as far in over 15 years it had a gigantic input on our generation.

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