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Information technology and purpose in education
- 1. Information Technology and the Purposeof Education BY: FRANZINE S. LAINA JOHNREY JURANE
- 2. It is evidentthat information technology has affected changes to the methods, purpose and the perceived potential of education. While various authors differ in their opinion on the degree, desirability and destiny of these changes, all agree that change processes have certainly been underway. However, the process of change is far from over. Information technology, whether perceived as a power for good or a power for evil, certainly has not been neutral. While effecting change has been difficult in many situations, contemporary information technology has by its very nature, been an agent of change in education institutions. INTRODUCTION
- 3. ā¢Schools and researchersuse technology to enhance education by achieving traditional objectives more efficiently. ā¢Computers are used for delivering key instructional components but donāt reconceptualize educational goals. ā¢New resources and attitudes toward their use affect what is considered important knowledge. ā¢The purpose of educational technology is questioned: does it help students achieve more, or simply learn traditional skills more efficiently? ā¢IT has shifted the aims of education, focusing on creating, preserving, integrating, transmitting, and applying knowledge. Knowledge is now seen as revisionary, creative, personal, and pluralistic. ā¢The future of education depends on how technology is integrated into the learning process.
- 4. Benefits to EducationManagement Software ā¢Larger benefits of technology invasion into the management function of institutions. ā¢Monitoring and productivity have improved after computers replaced manpower in arithmetical and analysis work. ā¢New software inter-connects the departments of institutions. ā¢IT firms in India are constantly developing new software by updating and innovating daily. ā¢The market is flooded with software for institutions. ā¢This software manages all relevant information and produces proper reports, helping institutions with better management.
- 5. They are, Easyto use school software/college software: āŗReliable and secure software āŗComplete Automation of operations āŗHelps on Decision making for the Management āŗCan manage Multiple Campuses āŗScalable, Customizable and Supports Multiple Modules āŗ Parents have access to all academic information about their wards through the internet āŗEasy performance monitoring of individual modules leading to uncomplicated error detection āŗAutomated and quick report generation along with process turnaround time āŗCentralized data repository for trouble-free data access āŗAuthenticated profile dependent access to data āŗ User friendly interface requiring minimal learning and IT skills āŗHigh level data security āŗDesign for unproblematic scalability āŗElimination of people-dependent processes āŗMinimal data redundancy
- 6. IT Role inthe Education of Undeveloped Countries On the basis of views of UNESCO international commission about studying the communications problems one of the roles of communication and information technology in the matter of the education, transferring necessary information for growth, making and growing the personality and learning the skills, transferring necessary various and extended messages in order to help the learners in recognition, understanding and appreciating each other and unity in social obligations. Education is one of the major means through which one can obtain psycho movement, unity sense, argument and self-confidence, and in this case information technology has a major role. But on the other hand it seems that less-developed and developing countries, generally are worried about their being fallen behind "Information Revolution", especially in education. This concern causes that large part of government financial facilities is consumed for buying the newest kinds of technology without considering the preparation for absorbing and using its advantages.
- 7. IT in Educationof Globalization We are changed and to live with each other as commendable members of local global society we need to concentrate on communication and learning in order to resolve hazardous problems in the future. In our country IT education has been considered as a rescuer and in the meanwhile a threatening factor. Although these technologies are not neutral at all, we should accept them as they are, means that have been linked to the existing structures of the society, policies and technologies taking effect on inventions and their functions, especially are viewed as the changing factors and can be protected against their effects. What is obvious is that schools can be viewed as the most important channels for providing awareness of IT. Extension of IT culture at different levels of education is accompanying with vast effects for society. Students not only will be changed to active generation of IT in the future, but also will be able to play an important role in promoting IT culture in the society and family environment.
- 8. IT and theRequirement of Changing Education Advent of PC personal computers and extent access to the internet establishes an environment making global education systems obliged to change their education structure in major ways. The duty of educational systems confronting the changes is clear. Its primary purpose should be increasing the human power against changes, someone can adapt to continuous change, observing economy, quickly. For this, instead of searching in the past, we should find our purposes and methods in the future. It is obvious that in 21st Century the world will be dominated by modern technology and due to rapid scientific, economic, cultural and political changes, the educational systems will not be able to consider themselves as islands separated from the other social and national organization in the global village.
- 9. Need and Importanceof Information Technology in Education By considering, that education has been using the technology for expanding and developing different processes of the educational system more than one century, it is not surprising that new technology arrival has raised the interest in obtaining knowledge by various methods of presenting knowledge. Today technology- based education is attainable at the universities of developed countries. Smart schools have made a leap in virtual learning. On- line learning and remote training are among new education forms in the new century. By evolving the learning environments at the beginning of 21st Century, individuals and societies put heavy responsibility on the shoulder of educational institutions and their traditional structures by their increasing need of education.
- 10. Most major propertiesof the education system in information and communication age are: āŗIn new education, what is worthy of knowing and what is necessary is stoned. Not the learning of all information. āŗIn new education, the teacher helps the student to obtain, select, evaluate and store the information by the use of vast scope of sources. āŗPrinted magazines and books are knowledge sources; the drafts determined for writing and publishing are replaced by online books and magazines. Advantages of Informational society: āŗEnriching spare time āŗEnabling teleworking. āŗProviding new opportunities for raising national productivity and competitive atmosphere. āŗIncreasing employment āŗLife-long education.
- 11. āŗaccess to varietyof learning resources āŗimmediacy to information āŗanytime learning āŗanywhere learning āŗcollaborative learning āŗmultimedia approach to education āŗauthentic and up to date information āŗaccess to online libraries Importance of Information Technology in Education: āŗteaching of different subjects made interesting āŗeducational data storage āŗdistance education āŗaccess to the source of information āŗMultiple communication channels-e- mail, chat, forum, blogs, etc. āŗaccess to open courseware āŗbetter accesses to children with disabilities āŗreduces time on many routine tasks
- 12. Need of InformationTechnology in Education āŗEducation is a lifelong process therefore anytime anywhere access to it is the need āŗInformation explosion is an ever increasing phenomena therefore there is need to get acose to this information āŗEducatium should meet the needs of variety of learners and therefore IT is important in meeting this need āŗIt is a requirement of the society that the individuals should possess vechnological literacy āŗWe need to increase access and bring down the cost of education tu meet the challenges of illiteracy and poverty-IT is the answer
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