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What Is ICT Education and Why
Is It Important?
Information and Communications Technologies
(ICT) education is basically our society’s efforts to
teach its current and emerging citizens valuable
knowledge and skills around computing and
communications devices, software that operates
them, applications that run on them and systems that
are built with them.

What are these things? How do they work? How do
you use them productively? How are they deployed,
assembled, managed and maintained to create
productive systems? How they are used in specific business and industry settings? What are
the underlying science and technologies behind them and how might those be developed to
advance ICT fields?

ICT is complex and quickly changing, and it is confusing for many people. It is so pervasive
in the modern world that everyone has some understanding of it, but those understandings
are often wildly divergent.

There are many important dimensions to ICT education, including:
 ICT/Digital Literacy – Today, everyone needs a basic understanding of ICT and
how to make productive use of it, just to be good students, workers and citizens.
Teaching people how to be competent basic users of ICT technologies is an
important role of ICT education, so they will be successful in their academic and
work careers, and so they can efficiently participate in modern technical society. As
part of its study validating U.S. Department of Labor IT Competency model content
in California, MPICT determined with 99% confidence California employer
agreement with the following statements regarding Digital Literacy:

o “Information and communication technologies (ICT) competencies are
increasingly important for most of our employers, regardless of role. If there
was an agreed-upon standard for "digital literacy", or ICT competencies
expected of all workers, regardless of workplace role, my organization would
value a credential based on that standard as a way of validating ICT skills for
non-ICT workers.” (70.5% agree or very much agree)

o “In the 21st century, an ability to work with information and communication
technologies is becoming as essential to education, life and workplace
success as "reading, writing and arithmetic".” ICT Digital Literacy should be
considered a basic skill by educational systems, something taught to and
assessed for all students. (85.2% agree or very much agree)

o This study details 49 competencies for ICT User level knowledge and skills,
as an actionable, teachable and assessable definition of what people need to
know and be able to do to be “digitally literate.”

 ICT Infrastructure and Support Applied Technologists – Beyond a basic user
competency, our society also needs more knowledgeable and capable technical
people to deploy, manage and maintain ICT equipment, software and systems, so
they work well for users. In all industries, these people manage computer and
communications hardware, software and applications; networked systems; online
information sharing, communication and commerce systems; business processes
making use of these systems; and user support.

 Specialized Business and Industry Uses of ICT – As enabling technologies, ICT is
used strategically in almost all businesses and industries. Many have developed
specialized systems and uses of ICT, and many have specialized legal and regulatory
requirements; quality control systems; integrations with production and research
equipment and systems; security requirements; and software applications. For
example:

o Bioscience industries rely on specialized ICT systems and applications to
conduct research, analyze organic materials, produce biotech products and do
required reporting;

o Financial services industries rely on ICT to maintain customer records, do
business, conduct trades, do financial reporting, secure proprietary
information and comply with regulations;

o Manufacturing industries use specialized computer controlled systems and
robotics to design, produce and test products.

o Property management operations use ICT to network and control heating and
cooling, lighting and building access systems.

o Electric utilities use ICT to monitor and manage electricity distribution,
customer billing and smart metering systems.

o Telecommunications, cable TV and other entertainment industries use ICT to
store content, manage customers and deliver their services.

We need to develop a competent workforce that understands not only relevant
technologies, but also specialized business and industry environments and
operations, to meet these specialized needs.

 ICT Research and Development Scientists – ICT fields themselves are under
constant pressure to evolve and improve. We need people who deeply understand
the science and technologies underlying ICT and who can work to advance the
fields.
In virtually all modern businesses and industries, and in modern society in general, ICT has
key strategic roles. It is strategically important to develop citizens and workers who can
competently and efficiently operate and add value in these systems and environments.























What Is ICT Education and Why Is
It Important?

The Uses of ICTs in Education


THE ROLE OF ICT IN EDUCATION SECTOR
By: Saverinus Kaka, S.Pd.
Nowadays the role of Information and Communication Technology (ICT),
especially internet in the education sector plays an important role, especially in the
process of empowering the technology into the educational activities. Education sector
can be the most effective sector to anticipate and eliminate the negative impact of ICT.
Technology (internet) in another side can be the most effective way to increase the
student’s knowledge.
Being aware of the significant role of ICT (internet) in our life, especially in the
educational activities, education authorities should be wise enough in implementing the
strategies to empower ICT in supporting the teaching and learning process in the
classroom. ICT is not just the bloom of the educational activities, but also it will be the
secondary option to improve the effective and meaningful educational process.
The main purpose of the Strategy for Information and Communication
Technology Implementation in Education is to provide the prospects and trends of
integrating information and communication technology (ICT) into the general educational
activities.
There are some unavoidable facts in the modern education; First, the ICT has
been developing very rapidly nowadays. Therefore, in order to balance it, the whole
educational system should be reformed and ICT should be integrated into educational
activities.
Second, the influence of ICT, especially internet (open source tool) cannot be
ignored in our student’s lives. So, the learning activities should be reoriented and
reformulated, from the manual source centered to the open source ones. In this case the
widely use of internet access has been an unavoidable policy that should be anticipated
by schools authorities.
Third, the presence of multimedia games and online games by internet has been
another serious problem that should be wisely handled by the educational institutions.
The students cannot be exterminated from this case. They can have and do with it
wherever and whenever they want. Schools, as a matter of fact, do not have enough
power and time to prevent or stop it after school times. Meanwhile, most parents do not
have enough times to accompany and control their children. So, the students have large
opportunities to do with multimedia games or online games or browsing the negative
and porn sites. Having been addicted, the students will have too little time to study, and
even do not want to attend classes.
In such situation, education institutions play an important role to eradicate these
problems. One of which is by facilitating the students to do edutainment or educational
games. Schools can let their students be familiar with educational games adjusted by
their teachers. Besides, they can also support and facilitate their students to have their
own blogs in the internet. A lot of WebBlog providers are free to the users, such as
WordPress. In their blogs, the students can create and write something, like an article,
poem, news, short stories, features, or they can also express their opinion by an online
forum provided in the internet. They are able to share experiences throughout their
blogs to others from all over the world. I think it will be an interesting activity for them,
and it will lessen their time to visit the negative or porn sites existed.
By doing so, I think our young generation will get more and more information and
knowledge by browsing in the internet. They can also create innovation in web design
that it may be out of the formal curriculum content, but it will be useful for their future.
Fourth, the implementation of ICT in education has not been a priority trend of
educational reform and the state paid little attention to it. Therefore, there should be an
active participation, initiative and good will of the schools and the government
institutions to enhance ICT implementation at school.
Fifth, the teachers should be the main motivator and initiator of the ICT
implementation at schools. The teachers should be aware of the social change in their
teaching activities. They should be the agent of change from the classical method into
the modern one. They must also be the part of the global change in learning and
teaching modification.
The followings are the aim and objectives of ICT implementation in education:
1. To implement the principle of life-long learning / education.
2. to increase a variety of educational services and medium / method.
3. to promote equal opportunities to obtain education and information.
4. to develop a system of collecting and disseminating educational information.
5. to promote technology literacy of all citizens, especially for students.
6. to develop distance education with national contents.
7. to promote the culture of learning at school (development of learning skills,
expansion of optional education, open source of education, etc.)
8. to support schools in sharing experience and information with others.








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