Recently I've got a lot of questions on my post about
ICT. So, I decided to discuss this topic a little bit. Here you have some
advantages of using the ICT:)
What are ICTs?
The Board of Studies in its cross-curriculum content
requirements has embedded ICT into the English syllabus as follows:
Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) content
in English enables students to develop and apply skills, knowledge and
understanding of ICT in their composing, responding and presenting, and as part
of the imaginative and critical thinking they undertake in English. The ICT
content has been incorporated into the content of this syllabus to ensure that
all students have the opportunity to become competent, discriminating and
creative users of ICT and are better able to demonstrate the syllabus outcomes
of English through the effective use of ICT.
Skills include:
- importing
images and graphics into folders and documents
- formatting
documents
- desktop
publishing using graphics in a multimedia presentation or webpage,
evaluating appropriate layout and design principles for a specific
audience.
The use of ICT in the English classroom extends beyond its
motivational value to address key outcomes of the syllabus, and allow students
to become competent users as well as consumers in English.
Research suggests that incorporating ICT into the English
curriculum can:
- improve
writing and reading skills
- develop
speaking and listening skills
- support
collaboration, creativity, independent learning and reflection
(Becta,2003a, Becta,2003b, VTC,2003) (cited in Becta 2005)
As an interactive and collaborative medium, ICT allows
responding, composing, and publication to be easily shared and offers students
the opportunity to explore the language of texts more creatively and develop as
speakers, writers and readers for an ever widening range of purposes and
audiences. ICT can enable students to:
- access
information and respond to a widening range of texts
- organise
and present information in a variety of forms
- broaden
the range of audiences for their work
- compose
a widening range of texts for a broad range of purposes
- compose
for real audiences. ICT can support them in their choice of genre for
audience and purpose.
- identify
key characteristics and features of text
- develop
understanding of language and critical literacy (Becta,2006,ICT in the
Curriculum)
