Monday, November 5, 2007

How can you as a teacher use ICT to enhance your teaching

ICT can provide many new opportunities for teaching and learning in the classroom.
As a teacher the computer can be a great resource.
Word processors and imaging programmes can be used to creating handouts and slide shows which will aid your teaching.
Excel and access can be used for keeping records on each student that you teach, along with being used to teach subjects like maths and accounting.
Computers can also provides an ideal storage solution for the many resources that a teacher accumulates over time.
The Internet is a great resource for both students and teachers, it can provide an unending amount of information for projects for students and also can provide teachers with additional information that can be used both for preparation and during classes.
The Internet also provides e-mail and chat rooms which teachers can use to share new ideas and resources.
The Internet provides such systems as blogs and pod casts which student can use as a new an innovative way to do class assignments, share answers for revision and revise for exams.

ICT however does not just start and end with computers, there are many other ways ICT can be used in classrooms, Cd's, DVDs and animations can now all be used in the classroom to enhance the learning experience. With students becoming more and more advanced in the use of technology it is important that teachers begin to integrate technology into the classroom, it will provide a way of attracting and keeping students attention, and also an easy way to make learning more fun for all involved.

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