BENEFITS OF ICT IN EDUCATION

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INTRODUCTION
Information and Communication Technology is a field that has a wide coverage. It extensively deals with communication technology and how it impacts on other fields of human endeavor. It is the fastest growing academic field of study and a viable source of livelihood. It is the convergence of telephone and computer networking through a single cabling system with ease of data storage, manipulation, management, and retrieval. It is concerned with database management, computer programming, and software development. Web designing, mobile application development, project management, security, networking analysis, media equipment, computer engineering, computer studies, the internet, intranet, internet protocol (IP), system software, application software, signal technology, base station management etc.

MEANING OF ICT
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) as a range of technologies for gathering, retrieving, processing, analyzing and transmitting information from everywhere anytime.

FACILITIES OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY AND THEIR USES

Television: this is an audio-visual material. As a multi-media material, it involves the multi-sensory organs that connect the act of seeing and hearing simultaneously. The television produces both visual and audio effects at the same time without one undermining the other. It presents projected visuals used for a normal micro-teaching exercise. Outside the radio, the TV is a tool for distance learning.

Radio: the radio is an audio material most commonly used and popular mass medium. It is easy to operate when reception is connected through a frequency. Both educated and illiterate classes can use the radio to receive information. It is also the commonest and fastest means of communication. The radio covers a long distance audience including remote areas. It can give live as well as recorded programmes.

BENEFITS OF ICT IN TEACHING AND LEARNING
Today, ICT brings many benefits to the younger generation especially for students, and these includes the following;

Active Learning

.ICT enhance learning by mobilizes tools for examination, calculating and analysis of information in order to provide a platform for student inquiry, analysis and construction of new information. The learners therefore, learn as they do and, whenever appropriate work on real life problems in depth. Moreover, ICT makes the learning lass abstract and more relevant to their life situation.

Collaborative Learning

ICT supported learning encouraged interaction among students, teachers, and expert regardless of where they are. Apart from modeling real world interactions, ICT supported learning provides opportunity to work with students from different cultures, thereby helping to enhance learners teaming and communication skills as well as their global awareness. It models learning done throughout the learners lifetime by expanding the learning pace to include not just peers but also mentors and experts from different fields

Integrative Learning

. ICT enhanced learning promotes a thematic integrative approach to teaching and learning. This approach eliminates the artificial separation between the different discipline and between theory and practice, which characterizes the traditional approach.

Creative Learning
ICT supported promotes the manipulation of existing information and creation of real world products rather than the duplication of received information.

It makes information storage and retrieval easy.

. It is the basis for e-learning and online library. Hence information dissemination is easier than ever.

Conclusion

In today’s interconnected world, information and communication technology (ICT) is widely used by our nation and it affects our lives every day. It gives great impact in education for the learners and teachers. ICT has become a key driver in education way as well as it has been identified by a range of important.