Advantages of embracing use of ICT in Education
Empowering
(i) Teachers and trainers use technology to support all learning across the curriculum, functioning as coaches, mentors, advocates and managers of information;
(ii) Through ongoing and comprehensive professional development, all teachers and trainers acquire the knowledge and skills to integrate technology into a challenging and interdisciplinary curriculum that addresses specific needs, developmental levels and learning styles of learners;
(iii) The teachers and trainers are transformed, through technology, from authority experts to facilitators guiding the students/learners to use technology to find answers online.
(iv) The students/learners are empowered to find their answers, making the learning process to become much more interesting.
(v) Instructional repertoire is expanded allowing opportunities for multimedia and interactivity that are impossible with more traditional instructional techniques.
(vi) The students/learners are transformed from passive recipients of the knowledge of the teacher/trainer to active participants in knowledge-seeking and knowledge-construction, with the teachers/trainers often learning new technology programmes along with them.
· Enriching
(i) The individual’s collaborative intellectual processes, personal experiences of exploration and discovery, as part of the search for truth, are enriched;
(ii) Increased access to information is engendered. For example, the Internet provides access to a considerable amount of information, media and communications and if the students/learners have computer and internet access, assignments, activities, assessments, multimedia and so on can be provided over the web and completed anywhere, providing for a wider range of instructional opportunities for any time, anywhere, any path and any pace learning.
Inclusive
(i) All students are welcomed by their schools in age-appropriate, regular classes and are supported to learn, contribute and participate in all aspects of the life of the school.
(ii) Schools, classrooms, programmes and activities are developed and designed so that all students including learners with special needs learn and participate together. (FME, National Policy on ICT in Education, 2019)