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ICT in Education


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The world is shifting from old mechanisms of education to modern trends of teaching and learning, this all is possible with the advent of ICTs in education. Information and communications technology helps and improves the content delivered to the audience. Education becomes easy when technology becomes a part of it. Information and communication technologies have occupied the most centric place in the education system.

With the rapid growth of digitization in all walks of life it becomes essential to include ICTs in the education too. Various research studies in this context have shown that with the use of ICTs in education the teaching and learning becomes easy and the concepts can be explained more conveniently with the use various ICT tools.

ICTs have become an integral part of the curriculum and has a positive impact on the learners as well as faculty members. The students who are exposed to technology becomes more knowledgeable and develop good communication and presentation skills. They become more innovative and take efforts to learn new things on their own..

The purpose of this study is to find out the use of Information Communication Technology (ICT) in teaching and learning in Pune vicinity secondary schools. The focus is on: ICT use and competence on teacher and student and on ICT infrastructure and teaching practices.


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Deepa Nathwani
Manghanmal Udharam College of Commerce, India

Abstract


The world is shifting from old mechanisms of education to modern trends of teaching and learning, this all is possible with the advent of ICTs in education. Information and communications technology helps and improves the content delivered to the audience. Education becomes easy when technology becomes a part of it. Information and communication technologies have occupied the most centric place in the education system.

With the rapid growth of digitization in all walks of life it becomes essential to include ICTs in the education too. Various research studies in this context have shown that with the use of ICTs in education the teaching and learning becomes easy and the concepts can be explained more conveniently with the use various ICT tools.

ICTs have become an integral part of the curriculum and has a positive impact on the learners as well as faculty members. The students who are exposed to technology becomes more knowledgeable and develop good communication and presentation skills. They become more innovative and take efforts to learn new things on their own..

The purpose of this study is to find out the use of Information Communication Technology (ICT) in teaching and learning in Pune vicinity secondary schools. The focus is on: ICT use and competence on teacher and student and on ICT infrastructure and teaching practices.


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