ICT in Education: How do the epoch of technology cook lessons

By Aira Ancog

The alchemy of education and technology brought expansion to how students learn. Teachers
nowadays utilize various educational materials such as laptops, overhead projector, a plasma
television and several digital tools which assist students for further learning. These mentioned
devices allow both the students and teachers to be more engaging in their lesson, both in the class
and online premises. The ICT on education is earnestly developing how the lessons are
communicated. Teachers are no longer limited to their manner of instruction and their learners at the
same time will not be hungered as to how they receive the information.

Information Technology is a combination of communication, reservation, processing and

multimedia capabilities. ICT has an important prominent role in the knowledge due to its changeable
ability and its capability to making relationship among students. ICT has brought changes towards
the basic and fundamental goals of education making more learners relish in proficiency and
productivity. (Shahmir, 2019) As Shahmir (2019) had reiterated with regards to how ICT shifts the
educational goals taking pleasure in relishing the students’ proficiency and productivity, UKEssays
(2018) argues that ICT brings out negative impact both in teaching and learning attainment opposing
to how the students’ adeptness are being developed. According to the said website, teachers may
always depend on the information from the web due to its convenience. But the danger that the web
brings suggest mistakes that teachers may not easily recognize. Information from the web could be
written with a personal point of view which comprises the truth. Through the teachers’ dependence
with the technology, they may become incompetent themselves because of the convenience ICT is
providing them. On the other hand, UKEssays (2018) supports the idea that students may get lazy to
attend the class due to the easier access on the internet which will hence motivate them to
procrastinate. The phenomenon of cutting and pasting are so popular among students. They trim the
material from the web, paste it and they are just good to go. Despite of which, Trucano (2005) of
infoDev, a program of the World Bank that promotes innovation and entrepreneurship in smart
agriculture, digital technology, and climate change technology objects the proposition that ICT
skirmishes the ultimate goal of education. He cited several reasons why ICT helps among those
stated were that ICT is seen as tools to help teachers create more “learning-centric” learning
environments just like in OECD countries where teachers are aided by technological tools supporting
this what we call learner-centric methods. And on the other hand, the utilization of ICTs can be used
to support change and or even extend the existing teaching practices that might be obsolete at the
present and in this way; both the teachers and the learners will be more engaging.

Amidst of the opposition against ICT, there are still more overwhelming reasons that
overpower the whole educational community to continue using technology-paired mechanisms in
teaching. There may be danger on their use but these perils do not exchange the benefits ICT enabled
to provide to make learning in school be much convenient and engaging.

References:

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23, 2019 from https://www.ukessays.com/essays/education/positive-and--negative-impacts-
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Shahmir S. 2019. Role of ICT in the Curriculum Educational System. Retrieved on April 23, 2019
from www.sciencedirect.com
Trucano, Michael. 2005.Knowledge Maps: ICTs in Education. Washington, DC: InfoDev/World
Bank Retrieved on April 23, 2019 from http://www.infodev/org/articles/teachers-teaching-
and-icts