Modern world develops faster than whenever. Undoubtedly, worldwide progress gives new challenges for education. It also supports the education and offers many new attractive solutions for teacher’s work. This fact is connected with mutual influence of ICT and education. The questions which appears are:
- What opportunities given by ICT achievements can we exploit in education?
- What challenges have we to overcome?
- The last is if only ICT influences education or education does the same?
This paper tries to find the answers. I hope You will read it carefully and leave Your point of view.
First of all, the big advantage of ICT is smoothing the way of communication. There are three types of communication: teacher <–>pupil, pupil <-> pupil and teacher <-> parents. These are the fundamental relations in the educational process and it is extraordinarily important to create them. Such forms like blogging, Internet Communicators, face book and e-registers are the ways of improving the quality and frequency of contacts between clue members of learning process.
Moreover, especially meaningful is use of SMART Board interactive whiteboards in the classroom. In some classes they are still used only like an additional screen however they have much more interesting functions. Furthermore, new sources of information are obvious facilities in education. Internet is today the biggest base of information. It is often said at today’s school that if something is not in Google it does not exist! In such situation it is obvious that modern teacher must refer to valuable sides in network. More information about the sources of Information in the Internet You can find here. A forementioned examples show us that ICT creates new opportunities in educational reality. They may make lessons more attractive and the knowledge more desired.
On the other hand , ICT gives challenges too. The case of preparing for jobs we do not know now appears the most difficult for teachers. The short film "THE DEVELOPMENT GROWS FASTER AND FASTER" presents rightly this issue.
We are the teachers of today, but our pupils are people of tomorrow. Do we have to become teachers of tomorrow? Of course YES –but HOW? Maybe the solution is to learn how to adapt to new equipment rather than how to use it.
The similar difficulty is that education of today needs to develop ability of solving problems we do not know yet. This means that we have to teach how manage problems, how to overcome difficulties which are alike in various problems. We cannot concentrate on core but on the whole aspect of the problematic situation and all the feelings to overcome in such moments.
While saying about challenges given to education by ICT we cannot omit the case of negative consequences of using it. The task for school is to show what dangers person may encounter while using all blessings of ICT-civilization and how to avoid them.
To sum up I am going to make the statement that not only ICT influence education. We cannot forget that this relation is mutual. I mean that the improvement of ICT determines the look of education. On the other hand the better quality of education is, the more ICT develops. This two areas are strictly connected and being teachers we have to remember about this.
