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Wednesday, 2 November 2016

My Experience with ICT in Education

My Experience with ICT in Education

Dear Readers,

As I have gone through education, technology has grown along with myself and I have found that it was used more and more each year within educational settings. This is due to an ever-changing society in which we must adapt and learn to become more technologically aware to keep up with those around us who we will eventually be competing against for jobs (Leask & Pachler, 2012).
The most common form of ICT that was used during my time at school was the interactive whiteboard which are more common now due to the fact they were very expensive then. Teachers were less skilled when I was being taught however, as they hadn’t had the training that is available now, and it is said that the way in which a teacher uses the board determines whether it will be successful or not (Bale, 2003).

A positive note I can add is that technology made subjects more interactive and further developed students’ social skills and as Lim Fei and Hung (2016) say, technology allowed for deeper learning of core subjects.It would also be interesting to see if you agree with Lim Fei and Hung (2016) in that technology in education helps ready students for the future.

 References

Bale, L. (2003) An Investigation into the Effective Use of the Interactive Whiteboard at Key Stage One. M.A. Education. Cardiff Metropolitan University

Leask, M., and Pachler, N. (2012) Learning to Teach Using ICT in the Secondary School. Hoboken: Taylor and Francis.

Lim Fei, V., and Hung, D. (2016) ‘Teachers as Learning Designers: What Technology Has to Do with Learning’, Educational Technology, 56(4), pp. 26-30.

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  1. Unknown9 January 2017 at 21:10

    From reflecting at my time in primary school I'd say that they didn't use technology to its full potential. Our school only owned one computer per classroom so the amount of time each pupil had on there was limited. We did have an interactive whiteboard however, this was rarely used. Therefore, blackboards and whiteboards were the teachers main resource to communicate information to us.

    In regards to your point about education helping students for the future, I'd have to agree. I believe technology will prepare children for the future as it will allow them to keep-up-date when they reach adulthood. For example, if they've grown up with it around them they'll be more motivated to use it in the future and won't be fearful of it (Coates, 2016).

    Coates, J. (2016) 'Readying children for the future', Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 113, pp. 89–93

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