Education in the New Milieu.pptx

Education in the New Milieu

Information and Communication Technology and Education Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)- consist of the hardware, software, network media for the collection, storage processing, transmission and presentation of information (via text and images), as well as related services. (World Bank).

 Become a personalized commodity and the environment we are operating in is more and more based on information and communication technology.  Also been a driving force for globalization, but it ha also divided the world into those who have not information rich and information poor (Dutton et al., 1996)

According to Williams (1997), technology can be seen merely as a social product rather than a technology which is separate from society (1999) these global processes can be understood only from co-existence of the uncontrollable economic development, its cultural consequences and the policy-based development related to these phenomena

How does ICT in Education Initiatives Contribute to the Millennium Development Goals? Increasing access through distance learning. Enabling a knowledge network for students. Training teachers. Broadening the availability of quality education materials. Enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of educational administration and policy.

The Global Curriculum Teachers and students exploring the internet’s educational possibilities are termed “internauts”’ trailblazers on this new educational frontier not limited by distance or national boundaries. ”global education”