LESSON 2

Talking it Over
 What is the importance of ICT in education?
Nowadays the role of Information and Communication Technology (ICT), especially internet in the
education sector plays an important role, especially in the process of empowering the technology into the
educational activities. It helps the Teachers to delivered their thoughts to the students properly example
with the use of the PowerPoint and it can easily to the students to understand the lesson. ICT improve the
standard of education it enables the use of innovative educational resources and improve teaching and
learning and its importance for teachers in performing their role of creators of pedagogical environments.
ICT improve the effectiveness of education. Aids literacy movements and it enhance scope of education by
facilitating mobile learning and inclusive education.

 What is the role of ICT in education?

ICT in education improves engagement and knowledge retention: When ICT is integrated into lessons,
students become more engaged in their work. This is because technology provides different opportunities
to make it more fun and enjoyable in terms of teaching the same things in different ways. Through ICT,
education become more creative than before and it became progressive. Information and communication
technologies encourage children to learn. Children learn best through technology. They are mesmerized by
technological tools and interested in effective teaching in the classroom or at home. It makes, helps and
assists teachers to interact with and to give enough and higher standard of teaching and learning while
interacting with their learners for them to be prepared for their better future, a knowledgeable future. As well
as for the learners, ICT helps them to be more knowledgeable, it helps them to become a higher standard
learner on interacting with their teacher. ICTs in education provides access to all types of learners. All
students can learn from the provided material. Even students with special needs can get the most out of its
use. ICTs also cover topics such as the digital divide and enable even the poor to have access to tools that
meet their educational needs and improve learning.
 A. Define the following key issues in ICT education by relating real life situations. Express your
answer in 2-5 sentences only.
1. E-learning or Online Learning
Teachers and learners interact thru online. Like for example what happening now a days, the
teachers send the module thru online in the google classroom and same to the learners we send our
activities in the google classroom, and sometimes the teachers discuss thru google meet. They send their
thoughts online. Learning is thru using internet.
2. ICT brings inclusion
ICT can enable persons with disabilities to receive an equitable education and facilitate them to
reach their full potential as productive and integrated members within society. And it allows students to
unite to explore and discover more thru the help of the ICT.
3. ICT promotes higher-order thinking skills
Use of ICT develops higher order thinking skills and it helps students to make choices of they own.
Thru the use of ICT students easily understood the lesson as it helps them find more knowledge. And thru
ICT higher-order thinking skills are significantly develop when student use ICT and improve their knowledge
and the skill of thinking. Like for example, if there something I don’t know, and I want to find out this, I just
easily to search in to internet that makes me become knowledgeable and improve my thinking skills.
4. ICT enhances subject learning
ICT enhances subject learning. It is well known these days that the use of ICT in education adds a
lot of value to key learning areas like literacy and numeracy and ICT in education improves engagement
and knowledge When ICT is integrated into lessons and activities, students become more engaged in their
work. Because technology provide different opportunities to make IT enjoyable in terms of teaching. And it
attracts and encourage the learners to focus to their study with the help of ICT.
5. ICT use develops ICT literacy and ICT Capability
ICT contributes greatly to education. It adds knowledge to the students through researching using
it, the internet. This helps to increase students’ knowledge. It also helps students to further embrace their
various schoolwork and students become more creative through ICT as their passion for all activity in terms
of education.
6. ICT use encourages collaboration
Thru ICT, students are encouraged to do collaboration, it enables students to share their
knowledge to everyone and it is thru the ICT devices like cellphones, they can just do a group video and
there where they talk about their own ideas. enables them to easy finish a task by sharing everyone’s idea
and it is thru enabling the use of ICT. And with the help of ICT learners can easily exchange they ideas,
and it allow the teachers to collaborate with their students easily.
7. ICT use motivates learning
Thru ICT, it motivates learners to study well, and motivated learners to enjoy their study and
continue dreaming, ICT stimulate, motivate and sparks students’ appetite for learning and help the learners
become independent to the work or task given to them and motivate learners to keep dreaming and keep
ongoing. And motivates learning to keep forward in attaining their dreams with the help of the ICT.
8. ICT in education improves engagement and knowledge retention
ICT is playing an important role in education; it makes the education become creativity and artistry.
Due to many contributions of using ICT to each student as well as to those who teach it is said to be
motivates learning. Because we see that the level of knowledge that ICT makes is very high because of all
the ideas we have in ICT that are what enhances our knowledge and ICT makes my life complete. ICT use
motivates students to learn more because they have a lot to learn here because it provides additional
information case the problem is that there are learners who are misusing ICT so they don’t know its true
value, in mannered use of ICT we learn everything. It increases our knowledge and improve our level of
thinking; it makes us fast learner and increased the level of our minds.
9. ICT use allows for effective differentiation Instruction with technology
ICT makes us differently, the way we learn and the way we train our self in the means of ICT. It
helps many of the students but despite this, it makes the student to not think on their own and we become
lazy. There are other students who have instead increased their knowledge using ICT but have just
depending on it like for example, my teacher gave an assignment to us and because I always give
importance in Playing Cellphone I forgot to my obligation, and because I was afraid to my teachers and will
be marked zero, I just copy paste in the internet. They do not allow themselves to create their own ideas.
They just depend on what the ICT can give to them. ICT is also a distraction at the moment because it is
already encouraging learners to not learn on their own, they are just hoping for what ICT can do to them.
They are no longer trying to think of their own calf because all their assignments are from the use of ICT.
Instead of learning they become lazy.
10. ICT integration is a key part of the national curriculum
ICT has become important to schools that are more advanced than those who study and teach
since the education of reform act of 1988 was proclaimed because of its contributions. It has helped the
students so much that it has been given the value of being one of the major school requirements for the
development and the height of each students’ knowledge as well as the teachers that they can use it to
raise the level of knowledge they can share with their students. ICT use has become valued of todays.

B. Create a graphic organizer presenting the advantages and disadvantages of ICT in education.
Make it as informative as possible.
Advantage of ICT in Education
1.Teaching makes easier
Through the use of ICT, it makes the Teaching
easier. Teachers doesn’t need to write on the board
manual, just use PowerPoint.
2. Lesson can be seen, and heard
With the use of ICT, the lesson can be heard and
can be seen and it easy to the learners to
comprehend and understand the lesson.
3. Easier to understand
Thru the ICT learners can easily to understand
the lesson, you just add image to the screen using
projector. and we can understand the lesson what
really means.
4. Improves communication
Having a technology in the school discussion
improve communication, students and teachers
communicate properly, teachers ask a question to
the learners and learners respond quickly.
5. Enjoying while Learning
Using ICT students enjoy studying/learning, ICT
Give color and happiness to the learners. Example
we just add music, image, and videos to the
explanation in the projector.
6. Students Perform Better
With the use of ICT, we can perform better, we
can do our projects properly by means of cellphone
and laptop.
7. Know More Information
The internet is one of the fastest ways of getting
information, just one click you can now get what you
want to know.
8. Improve Visual Skill
Thru ICT, we improve our visual skills we as
students become creative.
9. students Motivate to School
With the use of ICT, students motivate to enter in
the school and encourage students to continue
Dreaming with the help of ICT.
Disadvantage of ICT in Education
1.Generate greater distraction
ICT generate destruction to the learners
because some of the students abuse it, they tend
their time in playing online games instead of
answering their modules.
2. High Level of addiction
Most of learners right now and even me
addicted to gadgets, they consume their time
playing Mobile legends, and watching tiktok. They
cannot control they selves in addicting gadgets.
3. Greater loss of time
We consume/expend our time in Playing online
games, and we don’t know our obligation and
responsibility in life because we waste our time in
Playing Gadgets.
4. Generates isolation
The abusive use of ICT generates less contact,
In the physical world between people which is
handicap for the growth of the person and cause of
misunderstanding between a two person.
5. Filtering information
Nowadays fakes news is rampant and we don’t
know what is the real and fake.
6. Cyberbullying or harassment through the
network
Nowadays cyberbullying is very dangerous to
each every one and a very controversial and
rapidly topic issue and one of the greatest risks
posed by the it leads us in ICT and lead us in
messy life.
7. Lack of Privacy
In this time there’s a lot of Facebook users
hacked their account due to exposure in the
amount of personal information we shared in the
internet, this result of the becoming the target of
the hackers.
C. Relating to your current situation, how important is ICT in your learning venture? Present
concrete situations to support your answer.
ICT (Information and Communication Technology) is strongly needed for an effective teaching and
learning. During this pandemic there is a lot of changes, and one of these changes is the new standards of
education which is Blended learning, the learners enter in the school twice or thrice a week otherwise there
is have an online class and home self-learning. Despite the pandemic it is important to have good
interactions and communication between teachers and students. And we are lucky because despite the
pandemic we are here again to study and continue learning even it is blended, Through ICT, it helps us in
making our modules, our activities, and even our projects. I use laptop and cellphone to browse our
activities and assignments in Google Classroom and thru messenger and if there is something I can’t
understand in my module I use messenger to ask the guidance of my teacher or I just search it into the
internet, and we use Google Meet as a meeting app and serve as our classroom for our virtual class where
we can interact with our classmates and our teachers.
In our current situation, despite the challenges brought by the covid 19, we are lucky that the
limited face to face is already conducted, with the help of the ICT we are here again inside the school to
continue shaping our Dreams and to continue committing or achieving our dreams, with the help of the ICT
we are still here again at the school to continue improving ourselves. ICT is help us every day,in our
learning venture, the modules are also a product of ICT because technology such as computer and printer
were used in making modules and thru ICT we gain knowledge and information through online and modular
learning.
Although we are facing challenges right now, we can still work out things in different ways to learn
our lessons by means of cellphones, laptops, computer and I- com as an alternative use for teaching and
learning especially in areas without signal. Having a leveled-up ICT’s is important day-to-day activities most
especially students and teachers in doing their tasks. ICT is very important and useful in different aspects
of life providing better and quicker ways for people to interact, network, access information and learn.