What is ICT?

It was not until later on in my teaching career that the term Information and Communication
Technology (ICT) materialised before me and opened my eyes to what this meant in education. The
term ICT simplified means any technology that has to do with information and communication.
Information can come in many forms such as sound, video, text, and images, so when you think of
what technology it is available that produces these aspects of information and sometimes a
combination of all these, we refer to such technology as mobile phones, digital cameras, video
cameras for example.
Today information and communication technologies are the one thing and so the repertoire of
technologies expands further to encompass computers and computer-related products, email, MMS,
and other forms of communication (Finger et al., 2007).

Importance of Students Engaging with ICT

It is important for students to engage with ICT so that:

1. Learn 21st-century skills and develop their ICT capability and ICT literacy.
2. Improves their attainment levels.
3. Prepares them for an integrated society dominated by ICT developments.
4. So that they learn the notion of using ICT as a tool for lifelong learning