Significance of Information
Technology in Education
- Access to variety of learning resources
In
the era of Technology, Information Technology 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
widened. 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
Information
Technology 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 Information Technology has often been
introduced into well-established patterns of working and living without
radically altering them.
- Any time learning
Now
in the year of computers and web networks the pace of imparting knowledge is
very very fast and one can be educated .One can study whenever he wills
irrespective of whether it is day or night and irrespective of being in Nigeria, India or in US because of the boom
in Information Technology.
- 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 video discs. The growth of
audio-visual education has reflected development in both technology and
learning theory. Studies
in the psychology of learning suggests 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. Researchers have
found that, other conditions being equal, more information is taken in if it is
received simultaneously in two modalities (vision and hearing) rather than in a
single modality. Furthermore, learning is enhanced when material is organized
and that organization is evident to the student.
- Authentic and up to date information
The information and data which are available on the net is
purely correct and up to date. Internet, a collection of computer networks that
operate to common standards and enable the computers and the programs they run
to communicate directly provides true and correct information.
- 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.
- Better accesses to children with disabilities
Information technology has brought
drastic changes in the life of disabled children. IT provides various software
and technique to educate these poor people. Unless provided early with special
training, people profoundly deaf from birth are incapable of learning to speak.
Deafness from birth causes severe sensory deprivation, which can seriously
affect a person's intellectual capacity or ability to learn. A child who
sustains a hearing loss early in life may lack the language stimulation
experienced by children who can hear. The critical period for neurological
plasticity is up to age seven. Failure of acoustic sensory input during this
period results in failure of formation of synaptic connections and, possibly,
an irremediable situation for the child. A delay in learning language may cause
a deaf child's academic progress to be slower than that of hearing children.
The academic lag tends to be cumulative, so that a deaf adolescent may be four
or more academic years behind his or her hearing peers. Deaf children who
receive early language stimulation through sign language, generally achieve
academically alongside their hearing peers.
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