EMPTECH INTRO FOR SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS

1. EMPOWERMENT TECHNOLOGY
EMTECH

2. INTRODUCTION
In this presentation definition of ICT and its
impacts-economic and social are discussed briefly.
The topic of “ICT in education” is dealt in detail.
In the end there are some tips on how to enhance
learning experience using ICT.

3. DEFINITION OF
ICT
According to United Nations Development
Programme (UNDP): ‘ICTs are basically
information-handling tools- a varied set
of goods, applications and services that
are used to produce, store, process,
distribute and exchange information.
They include the ‘old’ ICTs of radio,
television and telephone, and the ‘new’
ICTs of computers, satellite and wireless
technology and the Internet. These
different tools are now able to work
together, and combine to form our ‘networked
world’ – a massive
infrastructure of interconnected
telephone services, standardized
computing hardware, the internet,
radio and television, which reaches into
every corner of the globe’.

4. IMPACT OF ICT
ON SOCEITY
Systematic impact which ICT’s have had on the
development of economies , cultures and
societies which include:
• Economic Impacts
• Social Impacts

5. ECONOMIC BENEFITS
• Secure Transactions
• Ease and Availability
• Net Banking
• Global Market

6. SOCIAL BENEFITS
• Employment
Generation
• Social Networking
• Great Awareness/
Advertising Media
• Educational Sector

7. USING ICTs IN
EDUCATION
There are three ways in which ICT in
education is considered in current thinking.
These are :
• ICT Education
• ICT Supported Education
• ICT Enabled Education

8. ICT EDUCATION
Essentially, it refers to the
creation of human resource
to meet the IT needs of the
knowledge economy. In
developing countries of Asia,
each country is trying to
create a pool of manpower
to address job opportunities
in computers—hardware and
software, creating and
training in computer
engineering.

9. ICT SUPPORTED
EDUCATION
A large number of
distance education
universities and
programmes use ICT to
support the print content
that they deliver to
students. This is also
sometimes called
multimedia education,
where multiple media are
used to support learning.

10. ICT ENABLED EDUCATION
Any educational
programme that is purely
delivered through ICTs, or
with ICT delivered content
as the primary backbone
of the teaching-learning
process, such as online
courses through the web,
is ICT enabled education.

11. MOODLE
Moodle, is a highly flexible, free
software, open source learning
platform.[These are groups of features
within Moodle, usually completed by a
student to interact with other students,
or with the teacher
• Assignment submission
• Forum for discussion
• Chat for instant messages
• Database as a bank of record entries
• Glossary, list of definitions
• Survey, for gathering data from
students[
• Online quiz
• Wiki module
• Gamification

12. SOME MAJOR
E-LEARNING SITES
• Khan Academy
• Skillshare
• Codeacademy
• Lynda.com
• EdX
• W3schools.com
• eXe Project
• CoFFEE

13. ADVANTAGES OF
ICT IN EDUCATION
• Promotes Learning by doing
approach
• Enables self-paced learning
• Provides access to wide range
of up-to-date learning
materials
• Enriches learning through a
combination of audio, video,
images, text and animation
• Enhances learning through
interaction and collaboration
• Provides a platform that
engages students

14. DISADVANTAGES OF
ICT IN EDUCATION
• An increasing number of resources and
funds are being pumped into putting ICT
in schools at the moment. significant
costs.
• Instead of using their laptops or tablets for
educational purposes, more often than
not students stray away from educational
purposes of their gadgets and visit social
networking sites such as Facebook or
Twitter.
• Some teachers see it as a potential tool,
whereas others may see it as unhealthy,
and also that it may hinder learning.
• Many teachers are not up-to-date with
the newest pieces of technology.
• Technology cannot motivate pupils.
• It hampers human interactions

15. CONCLUSION
To summarize, when using ICTs in your learning work,
make sure and
• Mix, supplement with different media
• Mix and experiment with formats and treatments
• Greater emphasis upon substance and less on style
• Use of graphics, animation
• Summarizing and recap of main points
• Build in interactivity