This document provides an overview of the course "ICT Integration, Standards and Competencies for Teachers" which is 3 credit hours and part of the B.Ed(Hons) Elementary program. The first unit discusses why ICT integration is needed in education. It can stimulate intellectual skills, support different ways of learning, and spark student interest more than traditional methods. However, teacher technological skills and attitudes also impact student benefits. The objectives of ICT integration are to expand access to education, improve quality, support lifelong learning, and facilitate non-formal education. Common misconceptions are that technology alone enhances learning, ICTs are just computers and the internet, and one training lecture is enough for teachers to integrate ICTs

1. COURSE NAME: ICT
COURSE CODE:B.ED-206
CREDIT HOURS:3
PROGRAM/ SEMESTER: B.ED(HONS)
ELEMENTARY/3

2. Unit 2: ICTs Integration , Standards
and Competencies for Teachers:

3. 1-ICTS INTEGRATION-WHY AND
WHAT IT MEANS ; OBJECTIVES;
MISCONCEPTIONS

4. What is integration?
• Complete and transformative application of technology on education.
• ICT integration is defined as the use of ICT to introduce, reinforce,
supplement and extend skills . ICT integration has been attracting a
great deal of interest among researchers in professional development
communities and human-computer interaction circles.

5. WHY INTEGRATION OF ICT IS NEEDED?
• New technologies stimulate the development of intellectual skills.
• New technologies contribute to the ways of learning knowledge, skills and attitudes, but
still dependent on pre-requisite knowledge and type of learning activity.
• New technologies spur spontaneous interest more than traditional approaches of
learning.
• Students using new technologies concentrate more than those in traditional settings
• Moreover the above outlined points are balanced by further genuine observations:
• Benefits of ICT for students are greatly dependent on the technological skills of the
teachers and their attitudes towards technology.

6. What are objectives of ICT integration?
• expanding access to all levels of education.
• improving the quality of education.
• enhancing lifelong learning.
• facilitating non formal education.

7. What are misconceptions regarding ICTs?
◦ Following are the misconceptions relating and involving ICTs in education:
◦ There is a repetitive cycle of technology in education that goes through hype,
investment, poor integration, and lack of educational outcomes.
◦ effects of ICTs are definite.
◦ ICT-enhanced education activities should not be perceived as a substitute for
conventional schools and teachers.
◦ To "tech" or not to "tech" education is, therefore, not the question.
◦ Effectively integrating technology into learning systems is much more complicated.
◦ A popular misconception and belief is that acquiring technological equipment is
‘empowering’ education and schools.
◦ ICTs do not mean computers and Internet.
◦ Delivering a lecture on use of ICTs in education during teacher-training would enable
teachers to ‘use’ ICTs in education.
◦ learning is not about distance, it is about learning.