ICT Essay

maintained. Teachers are at times owed salary thus getting them demotivated. Teacher to student ratio is quite poor and in a quite a number of instances classrooms are overcrowded. Power supply is quite poor and largely erratic as such the use of ICT in public school is not prevalent. I must emphasize that students are largely motivated by family, cultural and religious virtue and institutions. There is a high craving for educational pursuit and attainment in my country and as such students are…

1. Do federally compliant open container laws affect drunk drinking - Leah She has a very interesting topic about the effect of the open container laws on the crash percentage, which could potentially has a lot of policy implications at the end. I like how she approached her hypothesis with a set of panel data with a good time range (1998 - 2006). I think that this project is more complicated than the average, since panel data was the last topic covered in class. She has colorful graphs, and a…

information required for the unit. Collectively, the digital learning tools we created add to the ‘plan for and implement effective teaching and learning’ APST as it demonstrates the ‘select and uses resources’ aspect which requires creating and using ICT to engage and teach…

There are advantages and disadvantages of internet in the classroom for both students and teachers. Children today are known as ‘digital natives’ and in the class room’s; internet learning, design thinking, activity-based learning, problem based learning and achieving higher order thinking in students are essential elements to create successful learners. Teachers can utilise the design-thinking framework as a tool to integrate with the internet to create inquiry based learning activities and to…

apply their skills. Moseley (2000) and Deaney, Ruthven, and Hennessy (2003) stipulate the necessity for ICT to be used meaningfully in order to establish or extend pre-existing skills, otherwise, there is a risk that the use of ICT becomes superfluous to the task. By using the Book Creator App, opportunities are provided to develop children’s digital literacies (Hicks and Turner, 2013; Using ICT to teach literacy, 2011). Book Creator allows children to share their composition with peers and…

The National Curriculum for Mathematics is an organisational framework which includes a broad set of statutory and non-statutory guidelines that outline what the government deems to be a natural progression in mathematical understanding and knowledge, throughout the primary stage. Although one often considers the curriculum in this way, it is important to consider why and how the curriculum subject matter has been chosen, to which analysing the aims of the curriculum can be a useful starting…

documents, held on ICT equipment and applications. We need to have this type of security due to; General society, businesses, organizations and the government, all using ICT based applications and technology to store valuable data, such as; Names, addresses, contact information, phone calls, credit history, medical records, employment history, convictions and or secretive files. IT SECURITY WITHIN HOMES/SCHOOLS – There is IT security within homes and schools, due these places containing ICT…

Smart Grid Technologies: Communication Technologies and Standards Smart Grid History As soon as electrical distribution grids came into being the need for metering arose. The initial devices were used for metering consumption, however modern smart grid technology uses two way metering and can switch appliances on or off according to demand and off peak tariffs. Over the last one hundred years many obstacles to smart grid technology have been overcome. The earliest attempt at smart grid was…

inclusion of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT); it requires students to be ICT literate as it builds on students critical thing skills (Barlett & Burton, 2012). Schools have recognised the need to adapt to relevant social factors to ensure students become successful global citizens; this has been done by incorporating laptops, interactive white boards and iPads into the classroom (Bagnall, 2013). The negative effect of ICT is that the global market is able to thoroughly…

learnt the importance of many skills, such as time-management and ICT skills. One problem we faced was that we spent more time on certain areas such as the 5p’s to include as much detail as we can and therefore we were lacking time in certain regions like making and filling the board. In addition, I’ve learnt the lesson that it is crucial to have ICT skills to produce graphs to analyse the financial aspects of the product. Plus, the ICT skills were important in the production of the video of our…