ICT in Today’s World

Information and communication technologies have become common place entities in all aspects of life. The use of ICT has fundamentally changed and it was now more of student-centered learning settings. In the 21^st century, there are numerous benefits of technology in the field of education and it is benefited for both teachers and students. As one of the ICT features is to assist in developing education and to share knowledge worldwide. Moreover, through ICT, the work can be done more effectively within a short period of time. It helps the teacher to include all the types of learners using technology. Now a day’s PowerPoint presentation is commonly used by integrating the animations, pictures, music, videos, text, and games. It helps to stimulate the audience or learners and it helps in better comprehension. Unlike past, when I was in school I have never seen a computer neither I experience learning through technology. It was always a lecture method and it was more of teacher-centered.

ICT provides powerful tools to try out in a different design. The works become easier due to the integration of technology. Unlike past, the teacher doesn't have to use like letter as it has been replaced by mail, preparing result is replaced by spreadsheet, maintaining the record, saving documents, etc… So, ICT helps the teacher in maintaining the record of students scoring marks and computing of accurate results within a limited time. ICT has drastically helped in descending the workload of a teacher.

Teaching and learning in today’s century is better than the traditional method as it takes less time and space. Integrating ICT in the classroom makes everything easier. For example, to teach the difficult concept, the teacher needs to plan lots of teaching-learning materials, if ICT is used, a teacher can explain through some effective sources. ICT plays an active role in transferring information in the universe within a second. Whatever we create a new write-up, we can share with another person through ICT. 

For instance, if we want to pass information about the digestive system, then with the help of ICT we can prepare a brochure, PowerPoint slide, documentation, and animation and share the information easily. The information can be shared through Facebook, messenger, chat, WhatsApp, mail, link in and other social media. This is an easier method to spread in a short period. 

ICT provides various ranges of sources to explore the information. I prefer the internet as the source to collect information as it is the fastest and easier way to retrieve the information. It is advanced in resources and it has been used worldwide. The Internet has become undoubtedly a huge part of our lives as it serves information in all the purposes. Unlike past, we don’t have to carry bundles of a book to read the information as now it has been replaced by the internet where we can use from the mobile phone to find the require information.