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Education is one of the important aspect in our life, especially in modern life nowadays. It holds the key to the continued growth and prosperity. Well educated people are equipped with knowledge and skill that will run the world well. Modernity force the people to use technology in almost all of domains, including education. Hence, many schools have used the ICT (Information, Communication, and technology) as a very helpful tool to conduct education for students or the teachers to face the world.
Many research shown that ICT can improve the students learning and also the way the teachers teach, especially in terms of "Knowledge-Comprehension", "Practical skill", and "Presentation skill". It has the potential to meet the needs of individual student by providing opportunities to direct their learning, to pursue information, or complete tasks. Moreover, ICT is becoming the new way of teaching in school so the students are not bored with the traditional way of teaching.
Using ICT as a classroom tool has many other benefits because ICT:
- provides highly motivational activities for students. Computer-based activities can make the students curious in following the lesson
- makes complex tasks more manageable
- makes repetitive tasks more interesting
- illustrates complex processes or concepts
- provides access to many online resources for learning
- can make the class more interactive and enjoyable.
Educational ICT tools can be divided into three categories, input source, output source, and others.
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As an interactive and collaborative medium, ICT allows responding, composing, and publication to be shared easily, and also offers the opportunity for students to explore the information creatively. ICT can enable the students to:
- access information and respond to a widening range of texts
- organise and present information in a variety of forms
- broaden the range of audiences for their work
- compose a widening range of texts for a broad range of purposes
- compose for real audiences. ICT can support them in their choice of genre for audience and purpose
- identify key characteristics and features of text
- develop understanding of language and critical literacy (Becta,2006,ICT in the Curriculum)
Basic Technical skills
- Composing: a checklist of basic technical skills such as the ability to use certain hardware, such as a digital camera; or software such as word processing, email, publishing packages, Powerpoint, Photostory, or Moviemaker.
- Responding: a checklist of basic "reading" skills / cyberspace navigation skills for examples hyperlinks, icons, site maps, etc.
- Research / cyberexploration skills: for example using a searchengine, locating specific information on the web.
Literacy skills
- Responding: A knowledge and understanding of the distinctive features of multimedia texts like the relationship between visual text, written text, and design layout.
- Composing: The application of this knowledge and understanding of the distinctive features of multimedia texts to the composition of such texts for a range of audiences and purposes.
Critical Literacy skills
- An understanding of how the composer's choices of representational medium (text, image, sound, multimedia), transitional mode (print, electronic, spoken), position the reader, gives the text authority, conveys values and meaning
Many tools/programs/applications that may help the teachers and students in conducting the interactive and enjoyable atmosphere in classroom for example Wallwisher, Prezi, Animoto, Wordle, Storybird and etc (http://www.pcpro.co.uk/features/372979/10-free-online-tools-for-teaching-and-learning)
Wallwisher allows users to build virtual
classroom Walls, in the sense you might be familiar with from Facebook, onto
which 160-character messages, web links, images, videos and audio may be
posted. Individuals can use it to mind-map, keep notes, or bookmark useful
websites - but the real power of Wallwisher is in its potential for
collaborative activities.
By sharing your wall URL with a class, whole year group, or even an
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Prezi is an online presentation tool such as powerpoint but have more interactive presentation features. Prezi is a sure-fire way to cure your classroom of
PowerPoint fatigue. The finished product is leaps and bounds ahead of
PowerPoint in terms of style, engaging the attention of pupils who groan with
over-familiarity at seeing cheesy slide transitions on the whiteboard. it's one
example of a free on line tool where novelty adds value.
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Animoto is a video-creation tool that teachers and pupils can use to make dynamic
videos, either for the classroom, VLE or for special school events such as
parents' evenings and open days. Upload images, text, video and music, and
Animoto will automatically composite your ingredients, creating a fluid video
presentation in minutes.
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Storybird is a gorgeous tool, with a range of practical applications from Key Stage 1
and 2 Literacy, to Key Stage 3 lCT, Key Stage 5 Modem Foreign Languages and
beyond. lt makes available hundreds of high-quality artist illustrations in a
range of styles, which pupils can use to illustrate their own ebook.
Creative, descriptive, and persuasive writing activities can be set for
pupils, who can work collaboratively or individually, then "publish"
their finished work to a small group, the whole class, or even to the on line
public. It's the teacher's choice.
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