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Unit–21: ICT in Eductaion

CONTENTS
Objectives

Introduction
21.1 Need and Importance of ICT

21.2 Use of ICT in Teaching and Learning
21.3 Summary

21.4 Keywords

21.5 Review Questions
21.6 Further Readings

Objectives

After studying this unit, students will be able to:
• Learn the Concept of ICT.
• Understand the need and importance of ICT.
• Describe the use of ICT in Teaching and Learning.

Introduction

Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) are often associated with the most sophisticated
and expensive computer-based technologies. But ICTs also encompass the more conventional
technologies such as radio, television and telephone technology.
While definitions of ICTs are varied, it might be useful to accept the definition provided by United

Nations Development Programme (UNDP): ICTs are basically information-handling tools- a
varied set of goods, applications and services that are used to produce, store, process, distribute
and exchange information. They include the ‘old’ ICTs of radio, television and telephone, and the
‘new’ ICTs of computers, satellite and wireless technology and the Internet. These different tools are
now able to work together, and combine to form our ‘networked world’ – a massive infrastructure
of interconnected telephone services, standardized computing hardware, the internet, radio and
television, which reaches into every corner of the globe’.
When we talk of ICTs, we refer not only to the latest computer and Internet based technologies, but
also to simple audio visual aids such as the transparency and slides, tape and cassette recorders and
radio; video cassettes and television; and fi lm.
These older and more familiar technologies are referred to under the collective heading of “analogue
media” while the newer computer and Internet based technologies are called the “digital media”.

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