ict and education, benefits

The use of ICT in school environments has had a big impact on the education system.
Students are able to search the internet for research and any useful pictures to accompany this research. The main search engine that is used is Google.
(video of google)
This video shows that google makes it possible to search for a topic and then find an appropriate page of information. It then shows how it is possible to search for pictures.
Another useful website for research is wikipedia.
(video of wikipedia)
This video shows that wikipedia can recognise a word in different contexts and enable the person to choose which context they want. Wikipedia gives a brief description about the topic and then does into further detail. Wikipedia pages also have links to other pages that could be relevant. Wikipedia also has pictures on the pages to make it easier to understand what is being explained or described. The main problem with wikipedia however is that sometimes the information is very advanced and complicated, especially with articles relating to science or technology. This makes it very difficult to understand for anybody who has not studied the subject in great detail.

ICT in education also lets the students do work on line and have marked electronically
(Video of mymaths)  

Video shows how mymaths shows any outstanding tasks to be done along with online revision. People can also search for tasks that have not been set if they feel that they need to revise a subject. Anywork done is marked electronically giving the results immediately. It shows the correct answer which can be useful. However it does not explain where the student might have gone wrong.

Another use of ICT to benefit education is interactive white-boards. These are installed in a lot of classrooms.  These enable the teachers to bring something up on their computer and then show it to the whole class at the same time using a projector. This means that the teachers will not need to spend as much time explaining how to do something. Also the teacher can show the class computer resources that would not be available for them if the white boards were not there. Most of these boards have special wireless "pens" which can be used to select certain things on the board. This is useful as it means the teacher can draw the class'  attention to something. The lines these "pens" mark can be erased when they are no longer needed. A lot of these boards are also touch-screen. This means that the students can use them to do tasks while showing everyone else what to do as well.

Another useful feature of ICT are websites that students can go on to revise parts of the syllabus. A useful website for this is BBC bitesize

(video of bitesize)

This video shows that there are multiple subjects on bitesize, most of the main curriculm subjects. It is possible to select a subject and then select more detailed aspects that a person needs to revise. The explainations are straight to the point but are still easy to understand. There are also questions and tests so a person can check their understanding of the topic that was just covered.