Week 2: ICT Role in Education

Can we live without technology? The answer is absolutely not. We live in a world that is full of technology around us. Look around! You will find simple gadgets such as calculators to most complicated ones like robots and mainframe. Technology has been everywhere; especially; after the revolution of Information and communication in last decade. Therefore, ICT or Information and communication Technology plays an important role in our life in all majors. One of them is Education. ICT has changed the way of learning and teaching. Therefore, it’s been obvious that the change in life has affected the teaching styles. Teacher shouldn’t use the old methods in their classes because today students used to use computer as a main tool in their learning. So, computer can be used as a tutee in programming side like in IT courses that students learn how to build a program or a website therefore; it needs understanding of the programming language that will be used to build such a program, for example, C++, Java, XML.
In the other hand, computer works as a tutor in some areas like in educational CDs for learning PowerPoint Presentation as an example. Here, the computer goes with the students step by step to learn the lesson.

Also, computer can work as a tool in two terms. First one, productive tool; in this teacher can use computer as a tool to produce worksheets, exams, e-lessons.., etc. Then, the production work will appear in good design and colors that will attractive students and motivate them in learning.
Second term, we can use computer as a mind tool like using inspiration program. Moreover, computer as a mind tool helps user to organize his/her thoughts like using blogs.