Why we must integrate ICT?

ICTs can make changes in the way of the teaching-learning process using ICTs. The teachers are the main key in bringing the changes in the education system as teachers need to prepare students skilled enough to strive in the high-tech world. The students are entering the world that is changing rapidly in terms of culture, social, economic, political, and technologies. Using ITCs in the teaching-learning the process lets the students expose more to the world and can explain the abstract ideas concretely. Through,

ICTs the students will be updated about the news of the world and will be aware of the issues. Therefore the teachers in pre-service and in-service should be skilled enough to make the students competent and skilled enough to live in the advancing world.

As ICTs advances there were emergences of “knowledge-based society.” It is knowledge based society because the information about the world shots up. The articles are published every day about society, issues and addressing the problems of the world. Moreover, the students of these centuries are exposed more to knowledge than people in the past. Therefore, the teachers need to prepare the students to strive in the rapidly changing world.

I was indeed delighted to learn about how the teaching-learning shift was taken place. Using ICTs gives greater assistance in the way students learn and teachers teaching. It made much more advanced and collaborative among students themselves. Introducing ICTs in education have done away with teacher centered to student centered. Therefore it motivated the students in self-regulated learning.

There is a paradigm shift in the way of the teaching-learning process. It is called a paradigm shift as old theories do not solve the new problems. The traditional view of the teaching-learning process which is on content-based will not prepare the students for their future. It is not providing the students with enough skills and not making competent enough to live in the 21^st century. With the introduction of the ICTs, the students are taken beyond the text rather than being narrowed only on prescribed text. The classroom is made rich with knowledge, interactive and conducive for learning. Therefore creating the paradigm shift with the introduction of ICTs has exposed students to a knowledge-based society.