Lesson 2: Select and Use ICT Tools for Teaching Learning

The current systems employ technologies by integrating ICT tools and applications
in education and in instruction. ICT stands for
Information and Communications Technology.
This refers to various tools and devices or gadgets
used in communicating, disseminating, and
creating, storing and managing information. It is
important that learners understand how to use
these tools in helping them learn.

A great part of learning is working on

information and using it to create something
that can be useful and edifying for humanity.
Since the intention of education is to make
learners become useful and productive citizens, the use of ICT tools can provide a
lot of possibilities on how learners can do something with what they know. Teachers can
therefore employ ICT tools in their ways of engaging learners by communicating,
disseminating, and managing information. This direction of integrating ICT tools will
reveal the usefulness of employing ICT Tools in a wider range of the teaching and
learning process.

It is not necessarily the presence of advanced technology or the use of ICT tools
that can ensure the success in engaging learners, but
it still remains that the effective use of ICT tools
depends on how the teacher will use them. There is a
variety of ICT tools from which to choose. When
“Technology will never replace
employed appropriately, the potentials of their uses can
great teachers, but technology in
have bearing on the lesson and the learners’ engagement
the hands of great teachers is
in the process of learning. In instruction the ICT tools
can be used in the presentation of the lesson, transformational”
demonstrating a point or presenting a concept. There George Couros
are tools that can be used in providing practice or provide
the chance to apply the skills taught. Even when working
as a team or a group, tools can be employed to facilitate
the accomplishment of the task during the class or even
after beyond the face-to-face session.

These ICT tools, gadgets or equipment interface with your ways of living. You use
them to communicate, you think using them, or you create something with them. Others
know where your present location is or who your friends are. Technology works like a
passage that allows the world to see you or permits you to get to see others as well.