ICT integrated instruction in commerce teaching and learning at the higher secondary level is discussed. ICT is defined as encompassing technologies like computers, networks, and audiovisual systems that enable information access, storage, transmission and manipulation. ICT has an important role in modernizing education by supporting new ways of teaching and learning. The document then discusses various ways ICT can be integrated, including educational blogging, access to online learning resources, podcasts, blended learning using online videos and courses, and using presentation and interactive CD-ROM tools. Benefits of ICT and e-learning include access to information anytime from anywhere, as well as reducing costs.

1. ONLINE ASSIGNMENT
TOPIC: ICT integrated instruction in the teaching learning
of commerce at higher secondary level
Submitted to, submitted by,
SHAKEELA.L,
ROLL NO: 18,
DR.ISSAC PAUL B.Ed commerce
G.C.T.E.THYCAUD

2. INTRODUCTION
Information and communications technology (ICT) is often used as an
extended synonym or as an umbrella term for Information Technology (IT), but is a more
specific term that stresses the role of unified communications and the integration of
telecommunications, computers as well as necessary enterprise software, middleware,
storage, and audio-visual systems, which enable users to access, store, transmit, and
manipulate information. It is difficult and even may be impossible to imagine future learning
environments that are not supported in one way or another by Information and
Communication Technologies (ICT).When looking at the current widespread diffusion and
use of ICT in modern societies, especially by the young the so called digital generation –then
it should be clear that ICT will affect the complete learning process today and in the
future.
In other words, a widespread belief that ICTs have an important role to
play in changing and modernising educational system and ways of learning. Information
Technology (IT) and computer networks are becoming an important part of the life. IT and
computers are widely used to expand teaching possibilities. As education is a complex
process in which human and technical resources should be used carefully, concepts related to
teaching and learning have changed radically. Computer and related technologies are the
widely used, effective and excellent visualisation media and hence these are widely used all
over the world.
In India significant developments in the use of IT have taken place in
the industrial and commercial sectors. IT have wide application in the use of educational
sector also. It is essential that the educational sector specifically the higher education sector
adopts and integrates IT to improve quality and productivity. The IT with its versatility, can
accelerate one’s ability to solve many problems related to teaching, research and
administration that are encountered.
WHAT IS ICT?

3. Information and Communications Technology (ICT) is an umbrella term
that includes any communication device or application , encompassing radio, television,
cellular phones, computers and networks ,hardware and software ,satellite systems and so on
as well as the various and applications associated with them such as video conferencing and
distance learning. According to the European Commission, the importance of ICT lies in the
technology itself than its ability to create greater access to information and communication in
underserved populations. Many countries around the world have established organisations for
the promotion of ICTs, because it is feared that unless less technologically advanced areas
have a chance to catch up.
ICT EDUCATION
Information and communications technologies (ICT) education is
basically our societies efforts to teach its current and emerging citizens valuable knowledge
and skills around computing and communications devices and software that operates them.
SIGNIFICANCE OF IT IN EDUCATION
EDUCATIONAL BLOGGING
Educational blogging is blogging by students, teachers,
administrators, industry experts, and other involved entities that focus primarily on the
educational process and educational interests.

4. USES FOR BLOGGING IN EDUCATION
 Teacher communication
 Dialogue generation
 Student blogs
 Teacher blogs
ACCESS TO VARIETY OF LEARNING RESOURCES
In the era of technology, IT aids plenty of resources to enhance the
teaching skills and learning ability. With the help of IT now it is easy to provide audio visual
education. The learning resources are being widens and widen. Now with this vivid and vast
technique as part of the IT curriculum, learners are encouraged to regard computers as tools
to be used in all aspects of their studies. In particular, they need to make use of the new
multimedia technologies to communicate ideas, describe projects, and order information in
their work.
IMMEDIACY TO INFORMATION
IT has provided immediacy to education. Now in the year of computers
and web networks the pace of imparting knowledge is very very fast and one can be educated
anywhere at any time. New IT has often been introduced into well-established patterns of
working and living without radically altering them. For example, the traditional office, with
secretaries working at keyboards and notes being written on paper and manually exchanged,
has remained remarkably stable, even if personal computers have replaced typewriters.
PODCASTS
A podcast is a digital audio recording, with or without images, which
instructor can use to deliver content to student in an easy asynchronous fashion. Once
generated, podcasts can be disseminated online through personal websites or podcast

5. directories. Podcasting is the ability to create or listen to audio or video content either live or
downloaded for later use. A podcast is similar to a radio show in that each shoe consists of a
series of individual episodes you can listen to on your computer or on a digital audio player
like an iPod.
BLENDED LEARNING
Blended learning is a formal education program in which a student learns at
least in part through online delivery of content and instructions which some element of
student control over time, place, path or pace. While still attending a brick-and-motor school
structure, face-to-face classroom methods are combined with computer-mediated activities.
YOUTUBE
YouTube is a video sharing website, created by three former PayPal
employees in February 2005 and owned by Google since late 2006, on which users can
upload, view and share videos. Most of the content on YouTube has been uploaded by
individuals, but media corporations including CBS, the BBC and other organisations offer
some of their material via YouTube, as part of the YouTube partnership program.
NEWSGROUP
A news group is same as forum, an online discussion group. On the
internet, there are literally thousands of newsgroups covering every conceivable interest. To
view and post massages to a newsgroup, you need a news reader, a program that runs on your
computer and connects you to a news server on the internet.
VIRTUAL LABORATORY
The virtual laboratory is an interactive environment for creating and
conducting simulated experiments: a playground for experimentation. A virtual laboratory is

6. a heterogeneous distributed problem solving environment that enables a group of researches
located around the world to work together on a common set of projects.
ELECTRONIC JOURNALS
Electronic journals also known as e-journals and electronic serials are
scholarly journals or intellectual magazines that can be accessed via electronic transmission.
In practice this means that they are usually published on the web. They are a specialized form
of electronic document. They have the purpose of providing material for academic research
and study, and they are formatted approximately like journal articles in traditional printed
journals. Being in electronic form, articles sometimes contain metadata that can be entered
into specialized databases such as DOAJ or OACI, as well as the database and search-engines
for the academic discipline concerned.
MULTIMEDIA APPROACH TO EDUCATION
Audio-Visual Education, planning, preparation, and use of devices and
materials that involve sight, sound, or both, for educational purposes. Among the devices
used are still and motion pictures, filmstrips, television, transparencies, audiotapes, records,
teaching machines, computers, and videodiscs. The growth of audio-visual education has
reflected developments in both technology and learning theory.
Studies in the psychology of learning suggest that the use of audio-visuals in education has
several advantages. All learning is based on perception, the process by which the senses gain
information from the environment. The higher processes of memory and concept formation
cannot occur without prior perception. People can attend to only a limited amount of
information at a time; their selection and perception of information is influenced by past
experiences.

7. ONLINE LIBRARY
Internets support thousands of different kinds of operational and
experimental services one of which is online library. We can get plenty of data on this online
library. As part of the IT curriculum, learners are encouraged to regard computers as tools to
be used in all aspects of their studies. In particular, they need to make use of the new
multimedia technologies to communicate ideas, describe projects, and order information in
their work. This requires them to select the medium best suited to conveying their message,
to structure information in a hierarchical manner, and to link together information to produce
a multidimensional document.
E-LEARNING
The term E-Learning is derived from, electronic learning and refers to
technology based learning or the electronic delivery of learning. It covers a wide range of
distributed knowledge applications and processes, including computer based learning, web
based learning, virtual classrooms, and digital collaboration. Thus E-Learning includes the
delivery of content via all electronic media, including the internet ,intranets, extranet, satellite
broadcast ,audio/video tapes, interactive TV and CD -ROM .The term Online Learning
although sometimes used interchangeably with E-Learning .it refers more precisely to web
based learning ,which constitutes just one part of the technology based learning spectrum;
learning via internet.
E- Learning is a combination of learning services and
technology to provide high quality integrated learning at anytime and anyplace. It results
from a new blend of resources, interactivity, performance and structured learning activities
.The methodology followed in E-Learning makes use of various technologies to enhance the
quality of the learning process, by helping full realisation of the educational objectives aimed

8. at and by catering to the needs of a more diverse learner population with minimal
expenditure.
ADVANTAGES OF E-LEARNING
 Anytime, anywhere ,any place learning
 Reduced cost of training
 Uniformity of content
DISADVANTAGES OF E-LEARNING
 Instructors require thorough learning.
 Time consuming.
 Expensive equipments.
 Instructors prefer traditional methods.
 Technical training and support is needed.
POWERPOINT PRESENTATION
Power point is one of the most powerful presentations –software’s
developed by the Microsoft Corporation. Presentation software’s are used to present
an idea, topic message, lecture, information etc on a subject in front of an audience
using computer system and LCD projector. In power point software, the teachers and
students can develop their own slides in the subject of interest. The term SLIDE is
used in power point denotes the presentation programme files .A slide can be made
more attractive and catching by combining pictures, graphics, audio and video clips.

9.  INTERACTIVE CD ROMS
CD Rom (Compact Disc Read Only Memory) are the storage
media used to record, retrieve, read and replay the digitally formatted content of
programmes and packages .The content or topic to be taught are programmed and
stored in the CDs with multimedia features and effect. Such CDs are developed to
help the users interact easily. The students can enter in to a learning game on any
relevant aspect of the topic and can interact with the system even in speech and sound.
CONCLUSION
Technology and ICT have been drivers that have re-engineered our
society and commerce in recent years. Some might say they have presented opportunities for
change that have lead to unique benefits. Just as in any market, we have seen both pioneers
and early adopters and, at the opposite end of the spectrum, those school that slow and
reluctant to accept change. In terms of technology we are starting to see individuals using
multiple devices in a variety of ways. The days of the ICT suite are starting to look
numbered, other than perhaps for basic skills training and use in assessment. The technology
is needed when and where the learning process takes place. The “Cloud” is becoming the
home of the information repository and will deliver applications and programs to our devices
as and when required. Devices will become cheaper. Applications will also become free or,
because of higher volumes, will be available at lower cost. All this relies heavily on suitable
infrastructure being available, but as we move to Digital TV, relatively high digital capacity
will be available from the bandwidth released by analogue transmissions.

10. The internet of “connected things” is likely to have a big impact on our lives. By this we
mean the online connectivity of systems, machines and sensors. Much of the technology
already exists, but isn’t yet at sufficiently high volume and low cost to be pervasive.
Empowering our educators and encouraging co-operation and collaboration across agencies
should be fundamental. The technology exists to allow safe and secure sharing of information
at local level and across agencies without the need to structure national sized data
repositories. Information can be shared by local professionals and their clients with integrity
and information security devolved to the professionals.