Advantages and Disadvantages of ICT
ICT encompasses phone and mobile technology as well as computers. Information and communication technology is a vast field encompassing virtually all technologies that can store, receive or transmit signals electronically. With electronic devices so tightly wound into the fabric of modern society, the advantages and disadvantages of ICT use may not be immediately apparent. Taking a fresh look at these pros and cons helps to give perspective on the ways ICT affects you and your business.
The Advantages of ICT in Learning
It’s easier to update (update) learning materials into their responsibilities in accordance with the demands of scientific developments that occurred.
Develop or conduct research in order to increase their horizons because the time owned a relatively large.
Controlling the learning habits of students, even teachers can tell when students learn, what topics are studied, how long a topic to learn, and how many times a particular topic studied again.
Check whether students have been working on practice questions after studying a particular topic.
Checking students’ answers and get back to the students.
Increasing levels of interaction between student and teacher learning (enhance interactivity).
Allows the interaction of learning from anywhere and at any time (time and place flexibility).
Reaching students in a broad range of (potential to reach a global audience).
Facilitate the completion and delivery of learning materials (easy updating of contents as well as achievable capabilities).
The main benefit of ICT for students is the flexibility of students learning a more optimal, where he could access the materials by reading or downloading learning materials at any time and repeatedly.
Flexible in terms of time, where students can learn according to the time owned, unlike the conventional learning is bound with the specified timetable.
Flexible in terms of facilities, places and learning facilities, where students are free to learn wherever they are considered to be conducive, with a record of the place or environment can be to access the Internet.
The atmosphere of learning there are no psychological barriers. Students can learn with ICT without fear, shame or other psychological barriers. Students do not need to feel embarrassed when making mistakes when learning.
Providing teaching materials that have been validated by experts based on their fields (experts of material and the media) so that every teacher can use with ease so that the effectiveness and efficiency of learning as a whole will increase.
Learning content development will be compatible with subjects.
As practical guidelines for implementation of learning in accordance with the conditions and characteristics of learning, and
Encourage foster attitudes of cooperation between teachers and teachers, teachers with students in problem-solving learning.
The Disadvantages of ICT in Learning
Frequency of direct contacts among fellow students and between students with resource persons (teachers) are minimal.
Students opportunities to socialize with other students is very limited.
To overcome these weaknesses can be resolved by establishing an electronic learning environment (a kind of community in the virtual world) even though they are geographically dispersed. Today many of the facilities provided by Internet sites, such as Friendster, Yahoo mesangger, facebook, and others. With the facility, among students, students with the world community can even communicate with each other.
A teacher can also overcome the weaknesses of ICT in a way to assign students to work in groups to develop and present a given learning task. Similarly, the students, they can communicate with each other or discuss via e-mail.
Written by : Alexandra Jordan
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