- Education is a life long process therefore anytime anywhere

access to it is the need

- Information explosion is an ever increasing phenomena therefore
there is need to get access to this information
- Education should meet the needs of variety of learners and
therefore IT is important in meeting this need
- It is a requirement of the society that the individuals should
posses technological literacy
- We need to increase access and bring down the cost of
education to meet the challenges of illiteracy and poverty
1. CONCERNING THE NEEDS OF SOCIETY
Preparation of students for working life in a society that is increasingly IT
oriented. However, due to the rapid change in IT, the equipment and
software that today's school students use would be quite different from
those they will use when they enter the work force.

2. CONCERNING THE NEED TO FOSTER THE DEVELOPMENT OF

CHILDREN'S MIND
The use of IT in education will introduce students and teachers to a new
paradigm of learning where information literacy, problem solving and
knowledge transfer are valued far more than the knowledge itself. I
believe the second argument to be more acceptable to educational
practitioners.
When used as a tool for access to learning. IT facilitates
"anytime, anywhere" education. There can be different degrees
of this access (Caviedes, 1998) in the educational perspective.
At the simplest level, access can be local, i.e. same place at the
same time. This can be in the form of an electronic classroom
of which the main technology drivers are multimedia authoring
tools, multimedia classroom technologies and CD-ROMs.
Teachers usually spend considerable time preparing teaching
materials and assignments. When used for curriculum
planning and development, IT helps to provide access to
lesson plans, lesson materials and resources. Teachers can
also develop and share instructional resources as well as
support each other in the use of these materials through the
use of information and communications technology.
Researchers have much to say on the effects of
the use of IT on learning. Positive effects such as
stimulating the development of intellectual skills,
showing greater spontaneous interest in a learning
activity, better attention span or concentration and
promoting cooperation among students (Bracewell
& Laferriere, 1996) were observed.
Of all the various ways of using IT in education,
perhaps the least debated and most obvious is the
productivity improvement when IT is used for
educational administration. Few would argue against
the fact that IT helps to eliminate paper work and
when properly coordinated improves administrative
workflow.
In addition to being used as a tool where it helps the student or
teacher with their tasks, IT can be used in supplemental roles such as
in Intelligent Tutoring Systems (Shute & Psotka 1996) where it is being
used as an intelligent substitute or supplemental tutor.

From another perspective, computers can be thought of as tutees

where the students learns through the process of teaching (or
programming) the computer. Some examples are Microworlds and
Logo (Papert 1993, p. 20).
In the era of technology. IT aids plenty of resources to enhance
the teaching skills and learning ability. With the help of IT now it
is easy to provide audio visual education. The learning
resources are being widens and widen. Now with this vivid and
vast technique as part of the IT curriculum, learners are
encouraged to regard computers as tools to be used in all
aspects of their studies. In particular, they need to make use of
the new multimedia technologies to communicate ideas,
describe projects, and order information in their work.
IT has provided immediacy to education. Now in the year of computers
and web networks the pace of imparting knowledge is very very fast and
one can be educated anywhere at any time. New IT has often been
introduced into well-established patterns of working and living without
radically altering them. For example, the traditional office, with
secretaries working at keyboards and notes being written on paper and
manually exchanged, has remained remarkably stable, even if personal
computers have replaced typewriters.
Now in the year of computers and web networks
the pace of imparting knowledge is very very fast
and one can be educated. One can study whenever
he wills irrespective of whether it is day or night
and irrespective of being in India or in US because
of the boom in IT.
Now IT has made it easy to study as well as teach in groups or in
clusters. With online we can be unite together to do the desired task.
Efficient postal systems, the telephone (fixed and mobile), and various
recording and playback systems based on computer technology all have
a part to play in educational broadcasting in the new millennium. The
Internet and its Web sites are now familiar to many children in developed
countries and among educational elites elsewhere, but it remains of little
significance to very many more, who lack the most basic means for
subsistence.
Audio-Visual Education, planning, preparation, and
use of devices and materials that involve sight, sound,
or both, for educational purposes. Among the devices
used are still and motion pictures, filmstrips,
television, transparencies, audiotapes, records,
teaching machines, computers, and videodiscs. The
growth of audio-visual education has reflected
developments in both technology and learning theory.
The information and data which are available on
the net is purely correct and up to date. Internet, a
collection of computer networks that operate to
common standards and enable the computers and
the programs they run to communicate directly
provides true and correct information.
As part of the IT curriculum, learners are encouraged to regard
computers as tools to be used in all aspects of their studies. In particular,
they need to make use of the new multimedia technologies to
communicate ideas, describe projects, and order information in their
work. This requires them to select the medium best suited to conveying
their message, to structure information in a hierarchical manner, and to
link together information to produce a multidimensional document.
Distance Learning, method of leaming at a distance rather than in a
classroom. Late 20th-century communications technologies, in their
most recent phases multimedia and interactive, open up new
possibilities, both individual and institutional, for an unprecedented
expansion of home-based learning, much of it part-time. The term
distance learning was coined within the context of a continuing
communications revolution, largely replacing a hitherto confusing
mixed nomenclature-home study, independent study, external study,
and, most common, though restricted in pedagogic means,
correspondence study.
Information technology has brought drastic
changes in the life of disabled children. IT
provides various software and technique to
educate these poor peoples.
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