ICT (education)
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- For information technology in general, see Information technology
The ICT programme in the United Kingdom is co-ordinated by Becta.
A major current initiative is the Curriculum Online scheme which is aimed to accelerate the uptake of technology amongst schools. Becta took over the running of this scheme from the Department for Education and Skills in 2005.
Becta works closely with the Joint Information Systems Committee to develop strategy.
Many schools have Specialist school status in Technology.
See also
- Technology Integration, for technology education in U.S. schools.
ICT in Education(India)-The Bhartiyavidya Initiative
If we want to understand how to improve learning in schools, we need to pay more attention to the interfaces that are specially designed to be used by a teacher seamlessly with his/her wisdom as well as all other conventional teaching aids during a classroom teaching process.
“Bhartiyavidya” is a system that can be used by the teachers for more effective classroom teaching alongwith other conventional teaching methods and tools that include the teacher’s wisdom, teacher’s voice, chalk and blackboard.
The system comprises of Computer Hardware, Hardware-Software Interfaces, Security Devices, Colour Television, Computer-Television Interface, Secure Databases, specifically designed User Interface Software and custom made Multimedia Audio-Visual aids (known as Capsules in ‘Bhartiyavidya’ terminology) based on in-house researched school curriculum based teaching modules. The multimedia content has certain distinct features like expandability, scalability, and absence of voice over and use of minimal amount of text with specified minimum font size. The voice over has been intentionally avoided so that the solution does not become a substitute to the teacher since the solution is meant only for aiding the teacher in effectively communicating the academic subjects to the students. The system allows single button stop and play as well as functionality of Digital Chalk for the teacher to reinforce/ focus on specific areas in a given visual frame. Further the present invention is a multimedia solution that works alongwith the black/white board since the display device for students is a 29’’ colour TV (which works on the principle of light emission) and provides the teacher the flexibility to switch from the black/white board to multimedia content and vice versa any number of times as required during a teaching period even in a well-lit classroom.
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