ICT has impacted education in several ways. It has affected both teaching and learning approaches, with teachers increasingly using tools like the internet, data projectors, and interactive whiteboards. Students now study IT as a subject and have more opportunities for online and virtual learning through VLE/MLE platforms. While ICT provides many advantages to education, there are also drawbacks like plagiarism, inaccurate online information, and difficulties ensuring standardized quality and sustainability of online educational experiences and resources.

1. Applied GCE Unit 1 Life in the Information Age

2. Learning Outcomes Lesson 7 By the end of the lesson, you should: understand the impact on education know the purpose of VLEs recognise the advantages and disadvantages of ICT within education

3. Education Impact on ICT has been variable, many projects now coming to fruition Education is a lifelong activity Use to be one career for life, now people can expect to change career, or at least have to keep learning to stay on top of new technologies Lesson 7 Learning outcomes: Understand the impact on education ; know the purpose of VLEs; advantages & disadvantages of ICT in education

4. Education and Training More freedom and more job satisfaction More mobile if you have sought-after skills Less job security Need the ability to adapt in order to stay in employment Lesson 7 Learning outcomes: Understand the impact on education; know the purpose of VLEs; advantages & disadvantages of ICT in education

5. Education Effects have been on two main fronts Teaching and learning Subject matter Teachers have gradually made more use of IT. All subjects and all levels affected Internet has provided an easily accessible and massive information source Data projectors and interactive whiteboards have made it easy to show information and resources Lesson 7 Learning outcomes: Understand the impact on education ; know the purpose of VLEs; advantages & disadvantages of ICT in education

6. Education People believe that education should take advantage of new technologies to improve delivery of lessons ‘ Wired up’ education All schools and colleges have some connection to the internet and www Clear trend towards better use of ICT in the curriculum Lesson 7 Learning outcomes: Understand the impact on education ; know the purpose of VLEs; advantages & disadvantages of ICT in education

7. Education Resources now shared and adapted In the UK, the National Curriculum requires all teachers to make use of IT at some stage, whatever the subject Generally, a move forward towards more imaginative approaches to teaching Mix and match a variety of resources to create individualised learning plans Lesson 7 Learning outcomes: Understand the impact on education ; know the purpose of VLEs; advantages & disadvantages of ICT in education

8. VLE or MLE Virtual Learning Environment or Managed Learning Environment Virtual management and delivery or education Delivery of lessons through video, pod casts, online materials Group interaction and tutorials using chat and email Management of assessment Libraries for the provision of online books, papers, related websites Lesson 7 Learning outcomes: Understand the impact on education; know the purpose of VLEs ; advantages & disadvantages of ICT in education

9. Being organised Much prized asset – can mean that you are more successful than others Much easier to be better organised when you have IT tools Directory structures let you Find things easily Back-up a block of related work Send a group of files to a colleague in one action Get rid of out-of-date work Lesson 7 Learning outcomes: Understand the impact on education ; know the purpose of VLEs; advantages & disadvantages of ICT in education

10. IT as a subject Students now study IT (or ICT) as a separate subject Benefits to pupils: More employable, very few school leavers have no IT expertise Can make better use of IT tools to study and to organise their work Gain better understanding if they see how things work, rather than just using them Take IT further as a subject and enjoy a lucrative and interesting career Lesson 7 Learning outcomes: Understand the impact on education; know the purpose of VLEs; advantages & disadvantages of ICT in education

11. Drawbacks Plagiarism Easy to publish inaccurate, biased or plain incorrect information Increase in requirements to pay for information – will become harder to gain access to reliable, free information Lesson 7 Learning outcomes: Understand the impact on education; know the purpose of VLEs; advantages & disadvantages of ICT in education

12. Task Look at these examples of hoax sites http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/blhoaz.htm http://dreamweaverstudios.com/moonbeam/moon.htm http://www.dhmo.org http://www.geocities.com/TelevisionCity/Network/9000/ http://zapatopi.net/afdb.html http://www.sedftw.com/jackcon.htm How can we assess that the information found on the internet is probably real? What signs should make us distrust a site? Lesson 7 Learning outcomes: Understand the impact on education; know the purpose of VLEs; advantages & disadvantages of ICT in education

13. Drawbacks Difficulty in ensuring any standardised quality of experience for students Sustainability Costs involved, especially for poorer funded schools Lesson 7 Learning outcomes: Understand the impact on education; know the purpose of VLEs; advantages & disadvantages of ICT in education