Friday 25 November 2011
How will ICT change the future of education?
Synopsis
Educators foresee a future in which digital books, hybrid mobile computers and touch-screen writing tablets will replace the text book, chalk and blackboard. Knowledge in the form of books and printed matter will rapidly become digitised.
New mobile devices will emerge and take on a great role in the way students learn. Smart phones will become more like computers and vice versa. It was agreed to be one of the key emerging technologies that will transform schools is mobile devices. Whereas, touch-screen technology will become the key method students interact with ICT devices.
Educators foresee a future in which digital books, hybrid mobile computers and touch-screen writing tablets will replace the text book, chalk and blackboard. Knowledge in the form of books and printed matter will rapidly become digitised.
New mobile devices will emerge and take on a great role in the way students learn. Smart phones will become more like computers and vice versa. It was agreed to be one of the key emerging technologies that will transform schools is mobile devices. Whereas, touch-screen technology will become the key method students interact with ICT devices.
Such a device will be held in the hand like a mobile phone but it will have a larger surface, something like a writing tablet. It will be used for all kinds of communicating – browsing the internet, emailing, reading books and other materials online, phoning and texting, and social networking with friends and colleagues,”
Social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter will continue to rule students’ time. While it is not easy to spell out the implications for education, educators need to keep abreast of the latest ICT developments and echoed the need for teachers to be brought up to speed on new technology.
Sunday 20 November 2011
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