Ict Studies in Uk

Developing Learning through ICT

(Information and Communication Technologies)

Is use of ICT the way forward in Primary Literacy?

Student ID: P920856

Student Name: Nazia Amir

Programme Title: MA Education Studies

Module Tutor: Sandra Windeatt

Module Title: Developing Learning through ICT

Module Code: PP138

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Information and Communication Technology (ICT) includes a range of hardware and software devices such as personal computers, scanners, digital cameras, multimedia programmes, image editing software, and database. It also includes the communications equipment through which people seek and access information such as the Internet, email and video conferencing.

In recent years, the pervasive influence of ICT has significantly increased our capacity, as a society, to generate, manipulate, store, and transmit a large quantity of information cheaply and to communicate with others almost instantaneously. In UK, in Oct 2002 almost 28.6 million people accessed internet and among those who had accessed the Internet for private use nearly 79% adults used the Internet to find information about goods or services while 72% used e-mail.(www.statistics.gov.uk) . Society is becoming increasingly more dependent on technological knowledge and students with little or no exposure to Information Communications Technology (ICT) in schools may face difficulties in making the transition to the modern labour market. Computers have been widespread as resources for learning in schools since the 1980s, and ICT has been part of the National Curriculum since 1990. (National Statistics,www.statistics.gov.uk)

In 1997, the UK government announced its intention of encouraging the widespread use of ICT in schools. The main element of this programme, the National Grid for Learning (NGfL), provided a network of information and learning materials, and funding for schools via the Standards Fund....