3. IICCTT’’ss iinncclluuddee
Audio Visual E-Mail The Internet
Computers Systems
Instructional Print Media Voice Mail Cable Television
Software
Local And Wide
Area Networks
(Wired And
Wireless)
Broadcast
Receiving And
Telecommunicati
on Systems
Satellite
Communication
Compact Discs
And Videodiscs
Conventional And
Interactive Radio
Educational
Television
Virtual Learning
Centres
Microcomputer-
Based
Laboratories
5. From audience to user
It consists of the development that the mass media have had from
the eighties;
since the net allows to answer to the specific demands of information
of every user especially.
First we happen from that of the broadcasting to the narrowcasting
and now to the point casting. The services of information online
orientate all the individuals.
Secondly the net allows to answer to the specific demands of
information of every user especially.
In conclusion, this is reflected in the informative services that
possess the digital means and in the personalización of some
seekers
9. FFrroomm ddiissttrriibbuuttiioonn ttoo aacccceess
Nowadays a user can research for
information although the informant
does not provide it directly, the
opposite of years ago that this was
necessary
Editor's Notes
Ministry of Education of Trinidad and Tobago - Policy for Information and Communication Technology – Pol. No. 01 Issue Date: 30/09/05
Audio visual system is any equipment which allows for audio and visual presentations: eg. Television , DVD player Laptop
E- mail is short for electronic mail. It allows for the transfer of information from one computer to another, provided that they are all hooked up via some sort of network.
Conventional and Interactive radio: these are radio programs in which interactivity is characterized by a conversation between the radio teacher and the students. This conversation includes a simulated dialogue between the radio teacher and students in which the students respond in chorus, to questions posed by the teacher. Two examples of this are the Schools Broadcasting Unit and the IBG Phonic Programme.
The Internet is the world wide network of computers. There I only one internet, and thus it is typically capitalized.
Voice mail is a computerized telephone answering system that digitizes incoming voice messages and stores on a disk or flash memory.
Trinidad and Tobago's National ICT Strategy - 2003 Ministry of Public Administration & Information
The Ministry of Education of Trinidad and Tobago advocates that basic education should evolve in an ICT framework designed to enhance, broaden, strengthen and transform learning to develop the learner to be fully prepared to participate fully in the global economy of the 21st century.
The Government of Trinidad and Tobago together with its stake holders focused on increasing ICT accessibility to the nations students with the firm understanding that education is the fundamental factor to national development.
Trinidad and Tobago's National ICT Strategy - 2003 Ministry of Public Administration & Information
Ministry of Education of Trinidad and Tobago - Policy for Information and Communication Technology – Pol. No. 01 Issue Date: 30/09/05
This policy applies to 1. All students of Form One entering secondary school in September of every academic year, as a result of SEA placement.
2. Those who use and support this initiative such as parents, teachers, principals, school administrators and officials of the Ministry of Education.
3. Training and professional development of MOE personnel.
4. The use of hardware and software ; operation, repair and maintenance, upgrades and replacement thereof.
By doing ICT in education, pupils become exicited about their learning and as a result, fosters independent progress and development, simply because pupils keep wanting to learn more of ICT. They find out and learn extra stuff, or they may learn it through trial and error. This exicitment over ICTs is a positive one and so extra effort to retain its knowledge is exercised. The different programs of ICTs can be used across the curriculum. For example, spreadsheets can be used in Mathematics, Geography and Science. Word Processor in English. Database in Humanities and Science. Presentational software such as power point in displaying research ideas or conclusions. Desktop Publishing applications allows students to develop, draft and display their work.
ICT is not taught in a vacuum, or by itself. It incorporates different subject matters across the cirriculum It is a new tool that is being used to support and enhance existing teaching and learning practices. Education Policy Holders can now include ICTs in their education policy documents. Education is no longer dull and boring but is exiciting because of the introduction of ICT.
The different programs that are available in ICT, motivates learning because much can be done with it. It makes teaching for the teachers and learning for the learners easy. The different programs in ICT makes the education system a lot more efficient and stored information can be retrieved by the click of a mouse. The 21st century is the technological age, and ICT helps make the transition into the 21st century for it develops the technological skills.
Developing skills that bare necessary for the 21st century workplace.
---technological literacy
---information literacy
---communications skills
---problem solving skills
---interactive
--- the ability to handle dynamic situations
---the ability to work collaboratively with others
