This document discusses the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) to help achieve the United Nations Millennium Development Goals. ICT can increase efficiency, transparency, and competitiveness, open new opportunities and business models, and empower citizens. ICT helps gather, store, and analyze information more accurately and comprehensively. While developing countries lag behind developed countries in internet connectivity due to historical factors, ICT can generate business opportunities when used effectively.

1. UNIVERSIDAD AUTONOMA DEL CARMEN
NAME: YURIANA DE LOS ANGELES TRINIDAD CRUZ
GRADE:3rd SEMESTRE
DEGREE: ENGLISH LANGUAGE
ACTIVITY: #1.8

2. INFORMATIO AND COMMUNICATIONS
TECHNOLOGY (ICT)
Many developing countries have accepted ICT as a national mission.
ICT can work to meet the eight goals identified with the18 targets set by the
MDGs ICT can help achieve the MDGs by: increasing efficiency,
transparency, and competitiveness; oppening up new opportunities and
business models; and empowering citizens.
Value towards the MDGs is in gathering, storing, and analyzing
information with greater accuracy and granularity.

3. ICT can help achieve the MDGs by: increasing efficiency,
transparency, and competitiveness; oppening up new opportunities
and business models; and empowering citizens.
Value towards the MDGs is in gathering, storing, and analyzing
information with greater accuracy and granularity.

4. ICT IN DEVELOPING COUNTIRES:
The history of the internet is part of the reason for the skew in
connectivity between developed and developing countries.
A consequence of this is the dominating use of English language in
the internet. ICT can generate, it is business, case can also be sound.
“ICT is not the solution to any of them”, “ICT is a piece of the solution
to all of them.

5. COMPUTER ASSISTED LANGUAGE LEARNING:
This article provides brief overview of how computers have been used
and are being used for language teaching. It focuses not on a
technical description of hardware and software, but rather on the
pedagogical questions that teachers have considered in using
computers in the classroom.

6. ABSTRACT
Until quite recently, computer-assisted language learning (CALL) was
a topic of relevance mostly to those with a special interest in that
area. Recently, though, computers have become so widespread in
schools and homes and their uses have expanded so dramatically
that the majority of language teachers must now begin to think about
the implications of computers for language learning

7. Computer Mediated Communication allows users to share not only
brief messages, but also lengthy (formatted or unformatted)
documents - thus facilitating collaborative writing - and also graphics,
sounds, and video. Using the World Wide Web (WWW), students can
search through millions of files around the world within minutes to
locate and access authentic materials (e.g. newspaper and magazine
articles, radio broadcasts, short videos, movie reviews, book
excerpts) exactly tailored to their own personal interests. They can
also use the Web to publish their texts or multimedia materials to
share with partner classes or with the general public.

8. BEHAVIORISTIC CALL:
IT was based on the then-dominant behaviorist theories of learning.
Programs of this phase entailed repetitive language drills and can be
referred to as "drill and practice.
• Repeated exposure to the same material is beneficial or even essential
to learning
• A computer is ideal for carrying out repeated drills, since the machine
does not get bored with presenting the same material and since it can
provide immediate non-judgmental feedback.
• A computer can present such material on an individualized basis,
allowing students to proceed at their own pace and freeing up class
time for other activities.

9. STEPS TOWARD INTEGRATIVE CALL: THE INTERNET
Computer Mediated Communication allows users to share not only brief
messages, but also lengthy (formatted or unformatted) documents - thus
facilitating collaborative writing - and also graphics, sounds, and video. Using
the World Wide Web (WWW), students can search through millions of files
around the world within minutes to locate and access authentic materials (e.g.
newspaper and magazine articles, radio broadcasts, short videos, movie
reviews, book excerpts) exactly tailored to their own personal interests. They
can also use the Web to publish their texts or multimedia materials to share
with partner classes or with the general public.
It is not hard to see how computer-mediated communication and the Internet
can facilitate an integrative approach to using technology. The following
example illustrates well how the Internet can be used to help create an
environment where authentic and creative communication is integrated into all
aspects of the course.

10. REFERENCES:
• http://www.ict4lt.org/en/warschauer.htm
• https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rtongia/ICT4SD_Ch_2--ICT.pdf