The Role of ICT in

Education!
By James, Jen , Mark and Joanne
 ICT in Schools
Introduction

• It is generally agreed that ICT is a crucial

resource in education.
• Children use computers from an early age
and continue to university level.
• Children taught practical ICT skills that
are transferable into the work place.
Advantages of using the
Internet in schools
• A cheap, fast way to access a huge amount of
resources that are regularly updated.
• Accessible 24/7 – allowing students to
continue their work at home.
• Encourages computer literacy, helpful in an
increasingly technologically orientated world.
More advantages
• Teachers upload course documents so that
students misses a lesson, they can download
information and do the work in their own time.
• Encourages student-driven lessons, where
students take responsibility for their learning.
Even more advantages!
• Government sponsored learning tools available
to students – eg GCSE bite size – allow them
to find useful information.
• Government promises high-speed broadband
internet access for every university, hospital
and doctors' surgery which would allow schools
to be linked and to share resources.
How many schools are
online?
• 26,140 schools online (89.6%)
• average 16.3 net computers
• 52% give access to all pupils
• 39% some access
• 9% no access
• 42% have a website
• Schools becoming more computerized, proof that
internet must be helping otherwise they would not be
willing to shell out to fit their schools with needed
equipment.
 Disadvantages of the
Internet in Education
• Less need for schools
• Being taught the wrong things
• A lot of distractions
 Less Need For Schools
• No outside contact
• Job losses for teachers, etc
• There is a lot of incorrect
information on the internet
• Students will learn more theory and
less practical
 Being taught the wrong
things
• Hacking
• Creating Viruses
• Plagiarism
 A lot of distractions
• Porn
• Games
• Music
• Videos
• Chatrooms/Messengers/Emails
 Advantages of ICT in Education
• Use of packages: word-processing, dtp,
spreadsheets.
• Special facilities for pupils with
disabilities.
• Teacher and pupil communications improve.
• ICT provides links with other schools or
with businesses.
• Computers in schools provides wider
access to ICT and encourages new ways of
learning
• Can repeat work again and again and again
 CD-ROMs in schools
• Interactive teaching packages are
available on CD for different subjects.
• Children can learn in varied ways in the
classroom.
• There are many CD-ROMs available for
each level of the national curriculum.
 ICT in Education
Disadvantages of ICT in Schools 1
• ICT is very expensive - not all students get the
same opportunities
• It can be boring sitting in front of a computer
for a long time.
• Computers cannot interact on a personal level
e.g. fuller explanation
• It becomes harder for the teachers to organise
the teaching of new concepts.
 ICT in Education
Disadvantages of ICT in Schools 2

• Some students find it hard to use computers

• Students minds are more likely to wander from

their set task.
• Not all teachers are keen on ICT but, are forced
to use it.
 ICT in Education
Will Computers Replace Teachers? 1

• Children lose social interaction.

• Working on computers all day – bad for your

health.

• Computers aren’t as reliable as teachers

 ICT in Education
Will Computers Replace Teachers? 2

• Computers cant explain new concepts as well as

a good teacher.

• If left to learn at their own speed, many

students would fall behind.
• Computers don’t have the motivating force that
teachers have.