ICT- Pedagogy Integration in Learning Plans
(ICT)
Teaching has always been a challenging profession
since knowledge has been expanding and essential
skills have been increasing and changing. With
these challenges, teachers need to engage
educational technologies to assist them in the
teaching-learning process. Engaging educational
technologies in teaching are founded on principles
and philosophies. Understanding these will help
you successfully integrate technologies to allow
your students to demonstrate the intended learning
outcomes of your field of specialization
Integrating Technology in Instruction
John Pisapia (1994) - Integrating technology with
teaching means the use of learning technologies to
introduce, reinforce, supplement and extend skills
International Society for Technology in
Education (ISTE) - Effective integration of
technology is achieved when students are able to
select technology tools to help them obtain
information in a timely manner, analyze and
synthesize the information, and present it
professionally.
Margaret Lloyd (2005) - ICT integration
encompasses an integral part of broader curriculum
reforms which include both infra- structural as well
as pedagogical considerations that are changing
not only how learning occurs but what is learned.
Qiyun Wang and Huay Lit Woo (2007) - ICT into
teaching and learning is a growing area that has
attracted many educators’ efforts in recent years.
Based on the scope of content covered, ICT
integration can happen in three different areas:
curriculum topic, and lesson.
Bernard Bahati (2010) - The process of integrating
ICT in teaching and learning has to be done at both
pedagogical and technological levels with much
emphasis put on pedagogy.
UNESCO (2005) - United Nations Educational
Scientific and Cultural Organization. ICT integration
is not merely mastering the hardware and software
skills. Teacher needs to realize how to organize the
classroom to structure the learning tasks so that
ICT resources become automatic and natural
response to the requirements for learning
environments in the same was as teachers use
markers and whiteboards in the classroom.
Information and Communication Technology
The following are the definitions of ICT from various
sources
Moursund (2005) - ICT includes all the full range of
computer hardware, computer software, and
telecommunications facilities. Thus, it includes
computer devices ranging from handheld
calculators to multimillion worth supercomputers. It
includes digital cameras, computer games, CDs,
DVDs, cell telephones, telecommunication
satellites, and fiber optics. It includes computerized
machinery and computerized robots.
Tinio (2009) - ICT is a diverse set of technological
tools and resources used to communicate, create,
disseminate, store, and manage information. These
technologies include hardware devices, software
applications, internet connectivity, broadcasting
technologies, and telephony.
UNESCO (2020) - It (ICT) is a diverse set of
technological tools and resources used to transmit,
store, create, share or exchange information.
These technological tools and resources include
computers, the Internet (website blogs and emails),
live broadcasting technologies (radio, television and
webcasting), recorded broadcasting technologies
(podcasting, audio and video players and storage
devices) and telephony (fixed or mobile, satellite,
video-conferencing, etc.).
Ratheeswari (2018) - Information Communication
Technologies (ICT) influence every aspect of
human life. They play salient roles in workplaces, in
business, education, and entertainment. ICT helps
a teacher to present his/her teaching attractively
and enables learners to learn at any level of an
educational program.
Roles and Functions of ICT