INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

IT is the technology that handles

information.
It includes all the various activities
connected with the location, acquisition,
processing, storage and communication of
information.
IT deals with the use of electronic
computers and computer software to
convert, store, protect, process, transmit
and securely retrieve information.
Meaning & Nature of IT
 Information science is the science that investigate
the properties and behaviors of information, the
forces governing the flow of information and the
means of processing information up to the optimum
accessibility and usability
 IT is “the study, design, development,
implementation, support or management of
computer based information systems, particularly
software application and computer hardware.”
according to the Information technology association
of america (ITAA)
DEFINITION
 The term It is used to describe the process involving
recording, processing, storing, retrieval, transmitting
and again recording of information from the feedback.
 IT helps in collection of information
 IT helps in storage of information
 IT helps in storage of information
 IT helps in retrieval of information
 IT helps in use of information
 IT helps in transmission of information
Scope and characteristic

 IT and computer network are becoming

today an important part of life.
 IT can dramatically improve the learning
performance of students and increase the
teaching productivity.
 When computer and communication
technologies are combined, the result is
information technology.
Scope of IT in education
Scope of IT in education is as wide as
education itself.
 Technology related to educational
administration and management.
 Technology related to educational testing.
 Technology related to instructional purpose.
 Feedback for improving teaching learning
activities. Contd…….
 Interactive software for the student.
 It involves the means and devices of
learning experiences.
 Improved the motivation of student.
 Developing good relations among
school environment and school.
FUNCTION OF IT IN EDUCATION
 To develop suitable teaching learning material
 To develop suitable teaching learning strategies
 To develop and select appropriate audio-visual
aids
 To prepare teachers in the use of new
techniques of teaching
 To provide life long education
 To organize content in logical way
 To use appropriate teaching aids
IT IN EDUCATION
IT is used in education for formal and
informal learning at all levels. Some
very young children use it in the home
and others at school. Some teachers
use it at school for training. Adults
used it for vocational and continuing
education. Other adult use it for their
own informal education.
Children at home & play schools
Up to the stage of speech development very
young children can responds to voices, to
music and to moving pictures. some audio
players are available for such young
children, but under the guidance of their
parents or adults. Children who learn
informally at home through IT seem likely
to be high achieves at schools.
IT in primary schools
To acquire computer literacy
children must learn by actual
experience. An early stage computer
literacy consist of “keyboard literacy”
acquired through playing with machine
usually with game programme. They
have been also given exercises for
practicing mouse movements.
contd….
After achieving this awareness it can be used
for the following purposes.
1. For making use of courseware
2. Logic games
3. For learning languages
4. Use of printers
5. Computers can use for the achievement of
CAL & CML
IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS
In secondary level use of IT is as follows:-
1. Courseware packages in different subjects
2. Hardware & software training
3. Give computer based learning project
4. Programs for improvement of literacy
5. Importance of simulation in secondary
schools
6. Interactive learning through multimedia
And Internet.
IT IN HIGHER EDUCATION
Computers are used to make teaching simulations,
computer simulations and modeling can teach
university students of science and engineering.
Computer aided design software are useful for
engineering students.
University libraries are also using IT to assist
students and researchers.
Internet service are also common to university
libraries. It helps students get Internet editions of
books, journals etc..
Relevance of IT education in the
present day education system
Needs

 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
Contd….
 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-IT is the answer
Importance of IT in education
 access to variety of learning resources
 immediacy to information
 anytime learning
 anywhere learning
 collaborative learning
 multimedia approach to education
 authentic and up to date information
Contd…
 access to online libraries
 teaching of different subjects made interesting
 educational data storage
 distance education
 access to the source of information
 multiple communication channels-e-mail,
chat, forum, blogs,etc.
 access to open courseware
 better accesses to children with disabilities
 reduces time on many routine tasks
Significance of IT in education
 Access to variety of learning resources
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. 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.
Contd....
 Immediacy to information
IT has provided immediacy to education. Now in
the year of computers and web networks the pace of
imparting knowledge is 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.
 Any time learning
Now in the year of computers and web networks
the pace of imparting knowledge is 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. Contd....
 Collaborative learning
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.
 Authentic and up to date information
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.
Contd....
 Online library
Internets support thousands of different kinds of
operational and experimental services one of which is
online library. We can get plenty of data on this online
library.
 Better accesses to children with disabilities
Information technology has brought drastic
changes in the life of disabled children. IT provides
various software and technique to educate these poor
peoples.
 Multimedia approach to education
Audio-Visual Education, planning, preparation,
and use of devices and materials that involve sight,
sound, or both, for educational purposes.
Relevance of IT in present day education system
 The information society challenges the
education system. In recent years, the
speedy, effective and global communication
of knowledge has created a new foundation
for co-operation and teamwork, both
nationally and internationally. The
increasing role played by information
technology in the development of society
calls for an active reaction to the challenges
of the information society. Contd...
 Information Technology plays an important part in
the education industry today. Education is an
important factor that reflects the personality of
the individual person in our society. That is why
effective way of teaching is the best solution in
giving the quality of education.
 Through the use of Information Technologies,
quality of education becomes possible. The fastest
way of teaching is said to be possible through the
use of different technologies in the school.
Technologies really gives an important role in our
society and we must use it in a proper way.
Contd…
 Technologies also serves as a reference to the students
in searching and discovering other knowledge and
ideas through the use of Internet. The teachers also
can give a proper way of teaching to the students
without having difficulties in giving the reference
because the students have already copies on their
laptops, memory cards and other software
technologies for their advance and homework studies.
 Information Technology really plays an important role
especially when we speak about education. It is the
way to give a quality education and advance learning to
the students as well as a good way of teaching
materials to the teachers.
Educational policy in the information society
must ensure that:

 IT qualifications are developed by means of

their integration in all activities in the
education sector and
 The individual citizen must have an active
and critical attitude to developments and
not passively allow technological
development to set the pace.
IT educational policy must ensure:

 Up-to-date qualifications in the information

society
 Up-to-date qualifications gained against the
background of a high general level of education in
the population is to maintain competitiveness and
its share of the global labour market in the
information society. IT skills and IT understanding
are thus central prerequisites for the individual,
both now and especially in the future.