Information Technology Index. 1. CDROMs as a Learning Resource. 2. Microsoft PowerPoint.В® 3. Digital Cameras. 4. Videoconferencing. 5. Speech Recognition. Preamble. Information Technology, (IT ) is now a widely used tool in education, business and leisure. This project describes some of the facilities listed above which are used with varying degrees of success in education. As a tool of teaching, they have values which are discussed, but their widespread application in commerce and leisure makes having experience of them a requisite part of wider education. However, they can easily be construed as the way the learn, or as the only tool needed. With the exception...show more content... Such people will have quite a lot of computer literacy from the modules they already know and it will be interesting to see how much additional support they really need. 1. CDROMS as a Learning Resource. One useful way of using a computer in education is using subject specialist CDROMS. These have been available for some time now, but vary in their quality of material and actual likely learning outcome. The usual idea is that the student should work through a program at their own speed learning and giving answers, usually to multiple choice questions. The program might be one long on–going one, but is more usually broken into sections of increasing complexity, which can be used in any order for the topic required. If the student tries to go too far into the work before understanding the earlier chapters properly, then they will find it too difficult. Most programs have tests at the end of each section to self–assess progress. The best ones also have optional tests at the beginning of each section to see if the student already knows the material in it and can therefore miss that section out. The material varies in quality. Some are very good, making students at least think before answering questions. However, this learning system suffers from one fundamental problem. It is fairly easy to skip through a section and then immediately do a test on it. This however does not
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Information Technology
Haag and Keen (1996) agreed that information technology is a set of tools that helps you work with information and perform task related to information processing. Included in this set are seven building blocks. All together, these building blocks are called an IT system (p.8). For an IT system we need: Input and output, software, communication devices, the processing engine, information, storage devices, and most important people (Haag & Keen, 1996).
According to Haag and Keen (1996) the definitions of the IT system is as follow,
1. Input and output devices that you use to enter information and commands and to receive (usually by hearing or seeing) the results of your requests. Input and output...show more content...
Although all are components of an IT system, you must look at yourself and other and realize that people are the most important building block. Without you, and IT system really is nothing more than computer–an expensive piece of electronic equipment that takes up space and gathers dust (p.9).
A Comparison on How Students Used Technology Before and Now
Computers were not yet an integral part of every classroom. According to Crane (2000), a study in 1995 indicated technologies in the elementary school were overwhelmingly used for basic skill exercise but were not connected to the ongoing curriculum. The same study noted that in middle and high school, computers, were being used primarily to create documents or to teach computer skill. Now in the 21st century, Charp (2003) reported that the use of technology for students has not only increased in the classroom, but also in homes, libraries, coffee shops and other places throughout our nation's communities. During the years of President Clinton he pledged to wire all school to internet point. Now classrooms are made into research laboratories. Now, students are learning that online resources can help them recognize bias, propaganda, and commercially driven information; to think both concretely and abstractly; to reason and to question. On the World Wide Web, students can learn about
