Use of information and communication technology (ICT) in classroom.

Information and communication technology (ICT) has become crucial role in 21st century. ICT has a huge range of functions in education such as communication, learning tools, information sources. Using ICT in the teaching-learning process lets the students expose more to the world and can explain the abstract ideas concretely. Through ICTs the student will be updated about the news of the world and will aware of the issue. Therefore, the teacher in-service and pre-service should be skilled enough to make the students competent and skilled enough to live in the advancing world.

As a teacher it is not enough to have good idea about ICT skill but should be able to include ICT in their teaching to enhance the children's learning.when we were student, our teacher do not used ICT they simply lecture and we face problem in understanding the concept but nowadays teacher use video, pictures to explain the concept and make it more practical where students do not face any problems in expressing their understanding of the concept. ICT gives greater assistance in the way students learn and teachers teaching.

Before I join this college I had limited idea about the purpose/use of ICT but after joining this college i came to know that we should use ICT as part for our own learning. We used ICT to prepare power point presentation and we also used virtual learning environment (VLE) to cater or access information on different modules. with the help of ICT, it guides us to accomplish our works and tasks immediately and effectively. ICT provides opportunities in enhancing our knowledge and capacity by learning.

During first semester we had module called Foundation of Information and Technology (FIT) where we learnt about basic idea on the effective use of ICT in our day to day life. I also learnt the basic knowledge of ICT such as, preparing power point presentation ( add some animation of the text and images in the slides, font size and color combination), how to access information and also to prepare progress report card for the students. so i think ICT plays an important role in 21st century learning.