Argumentative Essay

Use ICT from Now !

ICT is to the technology that accesses to information. It includes any product that will store, restore, operate, or receive information in a digital form. ICT focus more on communication. Modern ICT make a way for people to communicate with others across the world. For this reason, ICT often affects the education today. Some people or educators think that ICT has a negative impact and can not be the best tool to help teaching and learning, however, I believe that ICT has the great positive impact on education and can help teaching and learning.

Most people think that ICT has bad impact on education field. Teacher always use and depend on this tools to help their teaching and learning. Actually this case causes many problems and one of the problems is usually there is an irresponsible information because web information mostly came or written by only personal’s opinion (UK Essay, 2013). In the other hand, students can not focuss  on lecturer because they always look at their handphone and use social media (facebook, twitter, etc) as their habit while teacher or lecturer teachs them in front of the class. This type influence students behavior  worse than before (UK Essay, 2013).

Additionally, most of teachers cannot manage class and time well when they using ICT in class. Based on (J. Blackmore, L. Hardcastle, et. Al) discussses that teacher felt difficulty to implementate computers or other ICT tools. This case is not effective to apply in class because can consume much time. Furthermore, Lack of technical support to be one of the reason for teachers lost confidence in the implementation ICT tools and software due to frequent failures and failure to complete lessons in the allocated time ( J. Blackmore, L. Hardcastle, et. Al. 2003: 203). ICT is not the best tool to help students assignment and learning on individual projects. (J. Blackmore, L. Hardcastle, et. Al. 2003 page 06).  Moreover, there are several challenges on education field to apllicate this tools. The challenges are especially in Iran such as lack of national Policy for using ICT in Higher Education, lack of adequate investments, cultural obstacles, financial challenges, lack of continuity in ICT use, and lack of systematic training and development programs.

In fact, actually, the role of  ICT is to help teaching and learning to be easy. However there are any person’s opinions in the web which causes an irresponsible information,  but  ICT shows us a responsible web which can be the best references in education, such as ERIC, Google scholar, TEFLIN etc.

Actually many media social as facebook, twittwer, and etc can help students or teachers in teaching-learning proces and give an interest way in their personal education. By integrating ICT through media social into the classroom, students have the ability to learn more effectively, exploring and sharing good information with their friends. It unknowingly makes them more collaborate with each other. In addition, through the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) such as interactive boards, tablet PCs, smartphones, the Internet, and computers in education, it is possible that class engagement increases, the lessons become more productive and fun, learning becomes more effective and students become more motivated (Gunuc 2016).

Furthermore, there are some benefits of using ICT to manage class and time well. Like, teachers can make students to do colaborative learning and do interesting teaching-learning to implementate ICT tools without wasting time action. Moreover, ICT is also easier to plan and prepare lessons and design materials for students. It helps teachers to access up-to-date students and school data, anytime anywhere. From a teaching point of view, teachers used these devices to deliver a whole class and could use the digital content effectively that was available to them. In some colleges, teachers were expecting more of the students used ICT-whether this was due to the higher pace of lessons, work being done more quickly.

ICT is very important to support all teachers must be competent in teaching IT. This includes the school providing time for the teacher to have professional development days and time for lesson planning.

However, there are many governmental entities, which are responsible for developing policies and strategies in ICT application. Another entity is the National ICT Agency (NICTA), which is responsible for designing and managing the Application Plan of Information and Communication Technology (TAKFA), which is included ICT development plan for Iran (Sadeghnezhad, 2003). This situation reflects the limited authority of universities and MSRT in providing the financial and physical supports for ICT application.

In my opinion, ICT can enhance ICT skills and develop teaching and learning process. ICT can be an easier way for students to research and information compared to the earlier period. For example for student’s  assignment in the previously, ICT is saving their time in doing the assignment and there is no limit to the information without they have to go to the library to collect information. (Kurt, Gunuc and Ersoy 2013).

Referring to the information from the internet, it helps not only to gain in understanding but also analytical skills which include improvements in reading comprehension as well as increase knowledge. for example, we have to read and understand the essay from the websites before we choose the article. It improves our understanding by reading.

Actually, these tools permit the society to have easy to the information and knowledge access and to make people jobs and daily activities more comfortable. Otto (2005) argues that the access to the internet is increasing in schools. Around the world, many governments has designed plans for giving the necessary resources to provide the schools with technological tools and training for a teacher to improve teaching using ICT.

Besides, Houcine (2011) continues arguing that a quick feedback is possible as well as the possibility to combine alternately skills is (text and images, audio and video clips). Also lectures become more interesting and less ordinary which boosts learners’ engagement and lastly, ICT enables to laptop computer in which they practice tasks for improving their communicative skills, moreover, the work in the lab, teachers plan group work, the support of partners can help to strengthen the learning of students in a foreign language. 

In conclusion, ICT gives both advantages and disadvantages to education. We have to be careful when using it. Internet, TV, radio, and others include the ICT that provide the news and information to us. We can increase our vision when we use it, and do more positive activities through ICT, but we do not spend our time when using that tools, we have to manage our time well and must be wise in using the tools of  ICT. 

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