ICT in Education

Today we will talk about the ICT in education and the ICT in teaching English. As we know, ICT stance for Information Communication and Technology. ICT is a set of technologu that can be use to shsre information or to communicate with others. While ICT in education means teaching and learning with ICT.

Gambar ICT in Education

Worldwide research  has shown that ICT can lead to improve students learning and better teaching method. A report made by the National Institute of Multimedia Education in Japan, proved that an  increase in student exposure to educational ICT through curriculum integration has a significant and positive impact on student achievement, especially in terms of "Knowledge Comprehension", "Practical skill"  and "Presentation skill" in subject areas such as mathematics, science, and social study.

Below are some advantages the ICT tools in education:

·        > Through ICT, images can easily be used in teaching and improving the retentive memory students

·       >  Through ICT, teacher can easily explain complex instruction and ensure the students’ comprehension

·     >  Through ICT, teachers are able to create interactive classes, and make the lessons more enjoyable, which can include students’ attendance and concentration.

Unfortunately, when there is the advantages there will be the disadvantages too. The following are some disadvantages of the ICT tools in education:

·        > Setting up the devices can be very troublesome

·        > Too expensive to afford

·        > Hard for teacher to use in lack of using ICT tools.

Well, after we talk about ICT in education generally, now we go to the main one that is the use of ICT tools in learning language.  In teaching process, the teacher used to be the center of information for the students in the class, but now by using the ICT, the sharing information or even the learning process can be done online through internet. If the communication between students and teacher is still directly happen, the use of ICT tools can make the learning process be more fun with interesting media in delivering the materials used by the teacher and so on. 

According to http://www.englishteacher.com.au/AboutUs/OfficialStatements/ICTsinEnglish.aspx, it says that ICT can enable students to:

·       >   Access information and respond to a widening range of texts

·       >  Organize and present information in a variety of forms

·       >  Broaden the range of audiences for their work

·       >  Compose a widening range of texts for a broad range of purposes

·       >  Compose for real audiences. ICT can support them in their choice of genre for audience and purpose

·       >  Identify key characteristics and features of text.

·         Develop understanding of language and critical literacy (Becta,2006,ICT in the Curriculum)

From the statement above, the teaching English using ICT is expected to improve the students’ comprehension in language skills through the spoken or written texts as the materials. There are two types of ICT that can be used in it, offline and online. The offline tools are like MS. Office and for the online tools, they can be Wallwisher, Prezi and etc. it is taken from http://www.pcpro.co.uk/features/372979/10-free-online-tools-for-teaching-and-learning.