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The Role of Information Technology in our Life

Dr. Abhay Bhakte
Librarian
Smt. Rajkamal B. Tidke Mahavidyalaya Mouda.

Received: Feb. 09, 2018 Accepted: March 15, 2018

ABSTRACT It is obvious that learners may use the technology for information related purposes during
learning processes in the class rooms. Teachers need to adopt new teaching methodologies to make sure
that educational objectives and student’s deep learning could be achieved together. It is therefore critical to
adopt a balance approach. Applications such as WhatsApp, Face book, Instagram. It is therefore important
to understand the impacts of their behavior. Also, the researcher is interested that how this behavior of
students effects the teaching methodologies of the teachers and how this could be balanced when teaching
in class rooms.
Key words: Information, Technology, Database.

Introduction
Today we are living in the age of information. A large amount of information is being generated every
moment. However, the ability to collect, store and disseminate this large amount of information needs
application of new technologies. Information Science in 1959 and ‘informatics of Russian origin in 1966.

The first definition is of “information technology”. Information technology is the technology used to store,
manipulate, distribute or create information. The type of information or data is not important to this
definition. The technology is any mechanism capable of processing this data. IT is the area of managing
technology and spans wide variety of areas that include but are not limited to things such as processes,
computer software, information systems, computer hardware, programming languages, and data
constructs. In short, anything that renders data, information or perceived knowledge in any visual format
whatsoever, via any multimedia distribution mechanism, is considered part of the domain space known as
Information Technology (IT). Some students use this technology for the purpose of information only.
However, it was noted that others use mobile phone to receive messages through different. On the other
hand, the use of mobile technology effects the teaching strategies.

Technology supports us to get information of all types very easily, this is in our hands and if I am not wrong;
information of any kind is into our pockets, with the help of Smartphone, fast internet speed, and social
media awareness.

The internet and the web constitute the technological infrastructure of the global network society and the
understanding of their logic is a key field of research. Digital communication technology that is already a
second skin for young people, yet continues to feed the fears and the fantasies of those who are still in
charge of a society that they barely understand.

IT professionals perform a variety of functions (IT Disciplines/Competencies) that range from installing
applications to designing complex computer networks and information databases. A few of the duties that
IT professionals perform may include data management, networking, engineering computer hardware,
database and software design, as well as management and administration of entire systems. Information
technology is starting to spread farther than the conventional personal computer and network technology,
and more into integrations of other technologies such as the use of cell phones, televisions.

Need of Information Technology

With the advancement of Science and technology, printing technology came into existence and information
were started to preserve permanently in the form of books. With the progress in printing technology, more

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and more literature was produced and the problem of their storage and retrieval on demand and at the
need were aroused. Hence, libraries came into existence for storing, arrangement and retrieval of
documents as and when required.

Education Advances in information technology will affect the craft of teaching by complementing rather
than eliminating traditional classroom instruction. Indeed the effective instructor acts in a mixture of roles.
In one role the instructor is a supplier of services to the students, who might be regarded as its customers.
But the effective instructor occupies another role as well, as a supervisor of students, and plays a role in
motivating, encouraging, evaluating, and developing students. For any topic there will always be a small
percentage of students with the necessary background, motivation, and self-discipline to learn from self-
paced workbooks or computer assisted instruction. For the majority of students, however, the presence of a
live instructor will continue to be far more effective than a computer assisted counterpart in facilitating
positive educational outcomes. The greatest potential for new information technology lies in improving the
productivity of time spent outside the classroom.

Making solutions to problem sets and assigned reading materials available on the Internet offers a lot of
convenience. E-mail vastly simplifies communication between students and faculty and among students
who may be engaged in group projects. Although distance learning has existed for some time, the Internet
makes possible an large expansion in coverage and better delivery of instruction. Text can be combined
with audio/video, and students can interact in real time via e-mail and discussion groups. Such technical
improvements coincide with a general demand for retraining and up skilling by those who, due to work and
family demands, cannot attend traditional courses. Distance learning via the Internet is likely to
complement existing schools for children and university students, but it could have more of a substitution
effect for continuing education programmes. For some degree programmes, high-prestige institutions could
use their reputation to attract students who would otherwise attend a local facility. Owing to the Internet’s
ease of access and convenience for distance learning, overall demand for such programmes will probably
expand, leading to growth in this segment of e-commerce.

Tool of Information storage and retrieval

Data storage
IBM introduced the first hard disk drive in 1956, as a component of their 305 RAM computer system. Most
digital data today is still stored magnetically on hard disks, or optically on media such as CD-ROM. Until
2002 most information was stored on analog devices, but that year digital storage capacity exceeded analog
for the first time. As of 2007 almost 94% of the data stored worldwide was held digitally.
Database
Database management systems emerged in the 1960s to address the problem of storing and retrieving large
amounts of data accurately and quickly. One of the earliest such systems was IBM’s Information
Management System (IMS), which is still widely deployed more than 50 years later. All database
management systems consist of a number of components that together allow the data they store to be
accessed simultaneously by many users while maintaining its integrity. A characteristic of all databases is
that the structure of the data they contain is defined and stored separately from the data itself, in
a database.
Data Retrieval
The relational database model introduced a programming-language independent Structured. The terms
"data" and "information" are not synonymous. Anything stored is data, but it only becomes information
when it is organized and presented meaningfully. Most of the world's digital data is unstructured, and
stored in a variety of different physical formats even within a single organization.
Data Transmission
Data transmission has three aspects: transmission, propagation, and reception. It can be broadly
categorized as broadcasting, in which information is transmitted unidirectional downstream,
or telecommunications, with bidirectional upstream and downstream channels.

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Data Manipulation
The exponential pace of technological change: machines' application-specific capacity to compute
information per capita roughly doubled every 14 months between 1986 and 2007; Massive amounts of data
are stored worldwide every day, but unless it can be analysed and presented effectively it essentially
resides in what have been called data.

Conclusion
The conclusion will be the Technology is Infinite. Day after day the technology continues development and
improvement. So what you learned yesterday will not be enough for tomorrow.
The term of Information Technology is too wide nowadays. There are some of trends but these can be hype.
Machine learning is very popular now with all the non deterministic learning models. But yesterday these
hype technologies were mobile development, web-development etc.
The ongoing computing and communications revolution has numerous economic and social impacts on
modern society and requires serious social science investigation in order to manage its risks and dangers.
Such work would be valuable for both social policy and technology design. Decisions have to be taken
carefully. Many choices being made now will be costly or difficult to modify in the future.
Thus in this paper we studied the impacts of information technology in our lives so far. We also studied the
future of our society with more sophisticated developments in information technology and its applications
in our society.
Suggestion
I think the Information technologies most of what we know today is a result of research. The work of
experts in the fields of science, technology, social science and the humanities continue to give birth to
information that is beneficial to the whole society.

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