University ICT in Education: Developing Teaching Material Report

This report examines the integration of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in education, focusing on developing effective teaching materials. The assignment explores the use of various ICT tools such as interactive whiteboards, projectors, and e-portfolios to enhance student learning. The report emphasizes the importance of ICT in making education more interactive and engaging, particularly in subjects like the greenhouse effect and organic chemistry. It discusses the benefits of ICT in promoting student participation, collaboration, and the development of ICT skills. The report highlights the challenges faced by teachers in utilizing ICT, such as limited accessibility and lack of training, while also emphasizing the need for new pedagogical approaches to maximize the impact of these technologies. The report is based on the provided assignment brief, which outlines the expectations for the assignment, including the development of ICT-based teaching materials and the demonstration of effective use of ICT tools in the classroom. The report also includes references to relevant literature supporting the use of ICT in education.

Running head: ICT IN EDUCATION
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Name of the University
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Discussions
Education is very important for students as they can learn several things and can apply it
in their real lives. Education becomes more interactive and easy when technology is used for
education (Valtonen et al.,2018). Various ICT tools are used in order to teach the students
their lessons and they will not get bored of the teaching. The information and the technology
of communication provide new and inventive modes for every student at every levels of
education. The ICT can easily bring on the classrooms those are devoid of the walls when the
teachers of the university or schools are prepared in order to understand latent of the
influential instrument. All the teaching those are formal in the classroom is motivated by the
practices of teaching those are traditional but there are several occasions when ICT is utilised.
ICT is an important tool that can be used in order to provide education to the students (Zhang
et al., 2016). In this assignment, a package of material is to be developed with the help of
ICT. The two curriculum areas can be the greenhouse effect and organic chemistry. Both are
important parts of biology and chemistry. Various technologies can be used in order to make
the students understand the topics like the greenhouse effect and organic chemistry. The
technology can be used as a tool in order to provide proper understanding of the curriculum
(İlkan et al., 2017).
There are various types of technologies those are emerging and they are of great help to
the students and the teachers. The interactive whiteboard is one of those technologies that can
be used teachers in order to teach the students and they are appearing in various schools. In
different schools, the administration of the school is trying to implement interactive
whiteboards in every classroom. There are different utilisations of the interactive whiteboards
that can motivate the students. The features include the stimulation, focus and learning. The
teachers can help the students in their performance with the help of the technologies like the

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interactive whiteboards. It can be said that the practices of classroom has a great impact on
the performance of the student.
There are various tools of ICT that can be used in the education purposes and it can be
used in order to help the students in their curriculum. The tools of ICT that can be used in the
curriculum include desktops and laptops, projectors, digital camers and many more. These
tools can help the teachers to properly teach the students and can make them understand the
complex topics (Kaur, 2018). The teachers can bring a presentation of some topics like on
greenhouse effect and show it to the students with the help of projectors. These can make the
class more interactive and the students will take interest in the lessons, as the traditional
backboard teaching is very boring.
An e-portfolio or the electronic portfolio is electronic evidence that is assembled and
administered by a user and it is on the web. An e-portfolio is a type of record of learning that
offers actual evidence of accomplishment. The records of learning is associated to the plan of
learning and it is an emerging tool that the individuals, teams and various organizations use in
order to administer learning. There are different portfolios that can help facilitate reflection of
the student on their own learning that leads to more awareness of strategies and requirements
of learning. This e-portfolio can help the students to assess their own learning and help in the
development of their own ICT skills of development.
After this, the lessons are to be organized in a sequence so that it is easier for the students
to learn the lessons. The lessons should be in a sequence such that the students can make use
of the skills of ICT to learn the lessons (Hsu & Wang, 2019). The teachers to organize the
lessons can use various technologies. ICT can help in student learning in many ways. The
ICTs can upgrade the superiority of education in various means that is by maximizing the
inspiration and the commitment of the learner, by helping the acquirement of the skills those

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are basic and by upgrading the teachers training. The ICTs are also the tools of
transformation and if it is utilised properly can easily promote to an environment that is
centred to a learner (Al-Hidabi, Kabilan & Shakfa, 2020). The students can be assisted to
expand the skills of ICT.
 Combination of the ICT in the procedure of learning, as an important competence and
contribution to the acquisition of the foreign language that is target
 Utilisation of ICT in the classroom in order to work on the processing of information,
authentic communication and on the autonomy of the learner, as the creator of the
procedure of learning
 Provide the ICT with the role in order to assist the young people to be able to arrange,
examine and then decide on the information that comes to them
 Challenging the students with various kinds of formats and supports and therefore a large
variety of actions in which they pass from the receivers to the markers.
 Bringing the students to the elements, those are cultural through the real time and
authentic documents.
 Attending the diversity of students and utilising the copious offer of the exercises those
are interactive and are available on the web.
The new technologies those are emerging require new pedagogical approaches. It is the
roles and the responsibility of the instructor or the teacher to create strategies so that that the
teacher can help the students with new tools in a distinctive way. The interactive whiteboards
encourage the students and the teachers to be interactive and active participation of both
students and teachers. There are different teachers that have embraced the technology and
they utilise it to help the students and illustrate the interactive abilities of the technology.

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According to Ghavifekr et al.,(2016) in this era, the ICT utilisation on the classroom is
essential for providing the students with various opportunities in order to learn and then apply
the required the skills in this century. Therefore, studying the problems and the challenges
that is associated to ICT utilise in teaching and learning can help the teachers in overcoming
the barriers and become successful users of technology. Therefore, the main aim of the
research is to evaluate the perception of the teachers of the challenges those are faced in
utilising the tools of ICT in classroom. In this research, a design of quantitative research was
utilised in order to collect the data. The important challenges and the problems that was found
was restricted accessibility, connections of network, restricted support of technology, lack of
training and many more.
According to (Uluyol & Şahin, 2016) the teachers play an important role in combining
information and communication technology in the schools and the teachers those are
motivated mirror higher levels of utilisation of ICT in their classrooms. In this research, the
authors have semi structured various interviews in order to investigate ICT use by the
elementary teachers of schools. From the teachers those are received, it can be concluded that
more support, encouragement and opportunities must be created in order to increase the
motivation of the teachers in order to upgrade the quality and level of the use of ICT in
classroom.
In spite of the positive outcome from the utilisation of the Interactive whiteboards, it has
maximized the competence and the confidence of the skills of ICT. These technologies can
be accessed easily and it has provided various opportunities to the students in order to create
the resources of learning. When these technologies are introduced in the schools, the teachers
require time in order to explore and learn the technology so that they can utilise it in order to
teach the students.

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The technologies can be used in order to make the students understand the lessons. The
technology can be used and the result will be in terms of pedagogy. The term pedagogy
means teaching or education. The tools of the ICT will help to apply the ICT with the proper
pedagogy in order to teach a thematic topic like the greenhouse effect. The ICT will help the
students for education (Park & Song, 2019). The package of materials that can be developed
are the tools of ICT that can be used in teaching such as the projectors, computers, laptops
and many more. The applications of ICT can help the teachers to teach the students, the
topics those are complex and can help the students to understand the lessons (El Kadiri et
al.,2016). The content will consist of a thematic topic such as the greenhouse effect and the
organic chemistry and the teachers will make the students understand with the help of the
ICT tools and techniques.
Therefore, ICT is very important for the students as well as for the teachers as it helps
the students and the teachers in understanding the complex topics and the tools of ICT will
also help them.

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