Real life uses of Computers in Education

Teaching Learning process

• Instructions:
  • Instructing the students using PowerPoint slides, Word documents or Web pages and using hyperlinks for better concept clarity.
  • Helps in improving pronunciation of students by using microphones, headphones, speakers, specially prepared software and special dedicated websites.
  • Video conferencing, chat and email helps in better communication, hence better concept clarity. Also concept of E-tutor has given access to teachers instantly and given teachers a better chance to earn.
  • Current syllabus can be viewed through website of the concerned school board; made available to students if teacher has made a website and uploaded using Internet; and updating- using web could be done easily.
  • Inspiring students to express their imagination using Paint Brush
  • Encouraging the students to surf web pages and gather relevant detailed information through web pages.
  • Readymade software could give practice material to students

• Learning:
  • Collecting notes /pictures/videos from web pages for detailed information and projects/assignments.
  • Saving the documents as soft copy for future use
  • Learning through animations, as they are much near to the students
  • E-books/online libraries/online encyclopedias help to guide in minutes and save precious time and resources.
  • Creating videos using images, albums for better power point slides.
  • Simulated Learning gives them an idea of the real situation.
  • Publication of pamphlet/brochures for awareness with institution and among community members.

Testing and Evaluation process

• • Keeping records of students for their academic scores
  • Keeping records in relation to personal history
  • Creating question bank for students
  • Using computers for testing by asking questions from question bank
  • Online Testing and Evaluation
  • Analysis and interpretation of the data
  • Previous year Question papers and sample papers using web sites.

Guidance purposes

• • With reference to collective records of the students maintained year wise, stored in computers
  • Testing for aptitude, interest, psychology using computer data bases and internet.

Library

• • Documents stored as soft copy for students/faculty members use
  • Online magazines , journals, brochures , research articles
  • Records of the books/record of the books maintained using special library software.
  • Records of the issues and returns of the books.

School Administration

• • Records of students(personal, academic, financial)
  • Records of employees of school
  • Accounts of the institution
  • Decision making process
  • Aid to memory with minimum paper work
  • Eye on current regulations of government and affiliating school boards and related authorities
  • School canteen for billing
  • Fees collection and maintenance of fees record.
  • Circulation of instruction/notices and getting it in printed form
  • Preparation of school magazine.

Source:http://wikieducator.org/Computers_in_Education

 The largest network on earth, the Internet, started in 1969 with four nodes installed at the University of California-Los Angeles, the University of Califorina-Santa Barbera, the Stanford Research Institute, and the University of Utah.

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My Reflection in Midterm

             Computers really had a lot of services that it can offer to us.

             In this period a have learned a lot of uses of computers. its wider access to education and as making learning's more easy to have.

           I have learned in the project-based that the process is more important that the product, because it is the  journey of how we come-up with the product, in which the learning and the development of the thinking skills are fully develop in this stage. Resource-based project,simple creations,guided hyper-media and web based projects are the examples of IT-based project which can be effectively be used in order to engage students in activities of a higher plane of thinking.
            In the computers as information and communication technology,i have learned that computers as a tool of communication comprise the media of communication to audiences,for instance the learners, like television and radio.As an information technology, it served to enhance and enrich the teaching-learning process.

           Computer as a tutor, i have learned that even thought their is a wide use of computer in learning but still it cannot replace the teacher as the giver of learning because they are the one who deliver and facilitate the knowledge with the use of  computers for the student to get a lot of information and learn at their own pace.

           In the innovating world of today we cannot deny the fact that the knowledge of computers should be acquired by every individual for them to be able to operate and have a lot of wide information of the world today.