REFLECTION ABOUT ICT

ICT is the acronym for information and communications technology. ICT consists of IT as well as telecommunication, broadcast media, audio and video processing and transmission, and network based control and monitoring functions. ICT plays the major items nowadays because of the well-spread uses and its accessibility all around the world.

In my opinion, the ICT give advantages and disadvantages. Here I listed some advantages of using the ICT in education:

1. Increase accessibility at all places

2. Processing of data is much faster on the computer

3. Repetitive processing can be better done using computerized machinery

4. Searching for information and data is much faster

5. There is no limit on data storage capacity

6. Data communication and transmission are fast and accurate

7. Data can be output on a computer in a variety of different formats

8. Up to date and real world technology

9. Provide people that modern, upgrade, knowledgeable, and open-minded

10. Increase the interactions among peoples all around the world

11. Sharing the knowledge with all educators and students all around the world

12. Make the teaching and learning process more interesting and effective

13. Provide reliability of lesson materials

14. Many software that can help in making lesson material as well as exercises

While, here are some of advantages of ICT:

1. Many teachers need to adapt with the updated usage of ICT

2. Increase cyber crimes

3. Students tend to search for other references compared to their teacher and books

4. Teachers tend to use full ICT-based teaching in classroom

5. Sometimes, there are problems with ICT set up during class session

6. Not all the information in the internet are reliable

7. Teachers with no training on this technology have no access to use ICT in class session, thus they do not know how to teach classes