The impact of ICT on education

ICT has helped learning immensly in many ways. Today all students are taught the basic skills on the computer. Then as the progress through there education ICT is used to aid there learning making it more interesting for them. Using computers students are able to have access to a wide range of material to help them progress. These are a few examples of what sites and programs have been made available to students to help them progress and study.

ICT has meant that learning for students is much easier and they can explore further if they want to find out more information about a subject. Without ICT education would be very different as many things in everyday student life revolves around it. All schools and colleges have some connection to the interent , most of these are high speed connection. Many students now have access to a personal space where documents can be saved and emails can be send and recieved.

It is believed that education can be used particularly for higher education and that is possibley where larger benefits have been seen. An example would be for lectures to use video and presentation that can be watched by large numbers of students.

Education is one area where the impact of ICT still could have a greater impact in the future. In theory is it believed that in the future students should be able to pick and mix what they want to create a learning curriculm that they will be able to gain the most from and that will match there needs. This could include things like online videos, exercises, online tests and quizzes that can track there processes. In the future classroom conversations could be held online with far more people world wide if necessary this could be a huge advantage to students studies in specic areas.

The disadvantages of using online services include the unreliability of the internet and when it is needed accessing specific sites may be difficult. Buying computers is expensive and schools may not have enough money to buy the new technological equipment needed. Students can also easily copy huge paragraphs of text off the interent and claim it is there own work. This can be part of a serious crime, plagiarism. Particularly in higher education this is seen as a massive problem and vast amounts of money are being spent on buying equipment that can help stop it.