Masterplans for ICT in Education

It is definitely of great importance for our education system to develop the masterplans for ICT in today’s education system. The use of ICT is important in order to better engage our future generation as they live and grow up in the era where students are media controlled and media visual driven.

This interactive use of technology will definitely enhance both the learning experience of students and the teaching experience for teachers. As students are media controlled, the use of ICT to engaging them in the learning subjects will be a more effective way of garnering students’ interest, allowing lessons to be conducted smoothly and in a more conducive manner. On the other hand, students will be interested in the subject matter taught as the medium that it was delivered in is in a form which are familiar and of relevance to them.

As a student, masterplan one was one that I was commonly in touched with. Trips to computer labs were a luxury and we were usually excited about it as it was a rather new form of technology back then. However, the content that was taught in computer labs using computers were not teaching subjects but subjects such as National Education. The ICT used in our teaching subjects back then were overhead projectors and visualizers, with occasional use of powerpoint presentations to conduct lessons.

As times have changed, the masterplans need to move forth along with the social landscape and masterplan three would be important especially in the provision of infrastructure to facilitate the implementation of ICT and promoting its use to a larger scale. As a beginning teacher, it would be important for us to fully utilize the infrastructure provided and we would also need to be trained in using such software and hardware. Our lesson plans would then need to be altered to cater towards such use of ICT and to provide platforms for students to engage fully with the available infrastructure.