Wednesday, September 9, 2015

Here are some of the benefits which ICT brings to Education according to the recent research finding  
 Benefits for Teachers 

  • ICT facilitates  sharing of resources, experiences and advice.
  • Greater flexibility in when and where tasks are carried out.
  • Gains in  ICT literacy skills, confidence and enthusiasm.
  • Easier planning and preparation of lesson and designing materials.
  • Assess to up-to date pupil and school data, anytime and anywhere.
  • Enhancement of professional image projected to colleagues.
  • Computer use during lessons motivates students to continue using learning outside the school hours.
Benefits for students 
  • Higher quality lessons through greater collaboration between teachers in planning and preparing resources.
  •  more focused teaching,tailored to students’ strengths and weaknesses, through better analysis of attainment data.
  • important  Pastoral  care and behavior management through better tracking of students.
  • Gains in understanding and analytical skills, including improvements in reading comprehension.
  • Development of writing skills (including spelling, grammar, punctuation, editing and re-drafting), also fluency, originality and elaboration.
  • Encouragement of independent and active learning, and self-responsibility for learning
  • Flexibility of  anytime, anywhere’ access (Jacobsen and Kremer, 2000)
  • Development of higher level learning style
  • Student  found learning in a technology-enhanced setting more stimulating and student-centred than in a traditional classroom 
  • Opportunities  to address their work to an external audience

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