Information and communication technology has become one of the basic building blocks of modern society. ICT has great potential for enhancing teaching and learning outcomes. The realization of this potential depends much on how the teacher uses the technology. Technology is the application of scientific knowledge for the welfare of humanity. If we use this scientific knowledge for the welfare of students and teachers (for better teaching and learning purposes), it becomes educational technology. Many new technologies have emerged with the passage of time. Each technology brings new challenges and opportunities. This course contains rich contents on educational technology and its implications in teaching learning process. It also emphasizes that teachers should not simply assume that new technologies are good for education. Instead, they need to make educationally justified and sustainable choices of when and how to use the technologies they decide to use.

This course will help the prospective teachers to understand, use, and apply a range of Information Communications Technologies (ICTs)—such as computers and the Internet, other audio and video equipment, mobile phones, and online resources and tools—as part of the teaching and learning process. During this course, they will learn to collaborate with their peers to develop a learning activity that uses digital tools and resources to support student-centered learning. The course focuses on teaching with technology. Technology in this course largely means computers/laptops, though instruction is largely similar to whether a teacher is using a laptop or cell phone. The focus of this course is to provide prospective teachers with the knowledge and skills regarding how ICTs can be used to engage students in the learning process, improve understanding of content as well as instructional and assessment practices, and enhance communication and collaboration in the classroom. To attain this end, students will design and create instructional units in which technology plays a central role and implement these units with students.  

Learning Outcomes:

After the completion of this course, the students will be able to:

• Understand the meaning, concept and importance of instructional technology in education process.
• Know the meaning of learning and appreciate what is effective teaching and learning by using latest instructional technology.
• Select, arrange and use appropriate methods/strategies and material for effective use of technology.
• Develop indigenous materials as instructional aids.
• Explain why technologies are appropriate (and not appropriate) for certain types of learning (knowledge)
• Utilize a range of technologies (radio, video, computer, online tools, and others) to create, plan, and deliver instruction (application)
• Provide a well-articulated perspective on ICTs in education informed by personal experience and critical examination of resources, curriculum, and educational practice (evaluation)

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