Hello, there readers! Just so you know, we had a very interesting class on week 5 whereby we were instructed to search a topic given to our group, and for our group 3, we were required to search for Thinking Skills in ICT.
Today I'd like to share my thought here about the relationship between Thinking Skills in ICT. Often we heard of ICT because it's a common medium for us nowadays. ICT means information and communications technology - or technologies is a medium that includes any communication device or application, encompassing: radio, television, cellular phones, computer and network hardware and software, satellite systems and so on, as well as the various services and applications associated with them. Meanwhile, Thinking Skills are mental processes we use to do things like: solve problems, make decisions, ask questions, construct plans, evaluate ideas, organise information and create objects. Thinking skills enable us to integrate each new experience into the schema that we are constructing of "how things are". It is apparent that better thinking will help us to learn more from our experience and to make better use of our intelligence.
How Thinking Skills and ICT are related?
ICTs are a potentially powerful tool for extending educational opportunities, both formal and non-formal, to previously underserved constituencies—scattered and rural populations, groups traditionally excluded from education due to cultural or social reasons such as ethnic minorities, girls and women, persons with disabilities, and the elderly, as well as all others who for reasons of cost or because of time constraints are unable to enroll on campus.
Advantages of ICT in education.
Disadvantages of ICT in education.
Today I'd like to share my thought here about the relationship between Thinking Skills in ICT. Often we heard of ICT because it's a common medium for us nowadays. ICT means information and communications technology - or technologies is a medium that includes any communication device or application, encompassing: radio, television, cellular phones, computer and network hardware and software, satellite systems and so on, as well as the various services and applications associated with them. Meanwhile, Thinking Skills are mental processes we use to do things like: solve problems, make decisions, ask questions, construct plans, evaluate ideas, organise information and create objects. Thinking skills enable us to integrate each new experience into the schema that we are constructing of "how things are". It is apparent that better thinking will help us to learn more from our experience and to make better use of our intelligence.
How Thinking Skills and ICT are related?
ICTs are a potentially powerful tool for extending educational opportunities, both formal and non-formal, to previously underserved constituencies—scattered and rural populations, groups traditionally excluded from education due to cultural or social reasons such as ethnic minorities, girls and women, persons with disabilities, and the elderly, as well as all others who for reasons of cost or because of time constraints are unable to enroll on campus.
Advantages of ICT in education.
- Anytime, anywhere. One defining feature of ICTs is their ability to transcend time and space. ICTs make possible asynchronous learning, or learning characterized by a time lag between the delivery of instruction and its reception by learners. Online course materials, for example, may be accessed 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. ICT-based educational delivery (e.g., educational programming broadcast over radio or television) also dispenses with the need for all learners and the instructor to be in one physical location. Additionally, certain types of ICTs, such as teleconferencing technologies, enable instruction to be received simultaneously by regardless time and space.
- Access to remote learning resources. Teachers and learners no longer have to rely solely on printed books and other materials in physical media housed in libraries (and available in limited quantities) for their educational needs. With the Internet and the World Wide Web, a wealth of learning materials in almost every subject and in a variety of media can now be accessed from anywhere at anytime of the day and by an unlimited number of people. This is particularly significant for many schools in developing countries, and even some in developed countries, that have limited and outdated library resources. ICTs also facilitate access to resource persons, mentors, experts, researchers, professionals, business leaders, and peers—all over the world.
- ICTs help prepare individuals for the workplace. One of the most commonly cited reasons for using ICTs in the classroom has been to better prepare the current generation of students for a workplace where ICTs, particularly computers, the Internet and related technologies, are becoming more and more ubiquitous. Technological literacy, or the ability to use ICTs effectively and efficiently, is thus seen as representing a competitive edge in an increasingly globalizing job market.
Disadvantages of ICT in education.
- Student dependencies on ICT. Students may become too reliant on computers and would not be able to learn other skills thoroughly enough. for example, they may use the computer to do some mathematical activities rather than learning and understanding themselves. They may be able to get a good result, but not really know what it means. Students may not fully engage in research and experiments, but use search engines for resources. Manual research, like going into libraries, and talking directly to people is often better and helps students gain a better understanding of the information they are getting.
- Lack of knowledge. Reliant students are lacked of knowledge as their dependencies on ICT does not enchances their thinking skills as much as manual method does. Manual method or reading are proven to be more efficient in enchancing one's imagination as its acquire student to reflect their vision, as for visual media-based educator, on the other hand, they have just be able to process what has been posted or shown to them instead of trying to figure out by themselves. This is particularly causes student to have less ability in critical thinking and creative thinking.