INTRODUCTION TO THE

INFORMATION AND
COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY
OBJECTIVES
•Understand the evolution of
Information and Communication
Technology and its key milestones.
•Explore how ICT enhances
communication, productivity, and
convenience in everyday activities.
•Analyze the social, economic, and
cultural effects of ICT on modern
society.
HIST OR Y
OF IC T
USES OF IC T
IN OUR DA ILY
LIVES
Communication Cont.

Nowadays people are in touch with the help of

ICT. Through chatting, E-mail, voice mail and
social networking people communicate with
each other. It is the cheapest means of
communication.
Communication Cont.

ICT allows students to monitor and manage their own

learning, think critically and creatively, solve simulated real-
world problems, work collaboratively, engage in ethical
decision-making, and adopt a global perspective towards
issues and ideas. It also provides students from remote
areas access to expert teachers and learning resources,
and gives administrators and policy makers the data and
expertise they need to work more efficiently.
Job Opportunities

In the employment sector, ICT enables

organizations to operate more efficiently, so
employing staff with ICT skills is vital to the
smooth running of any business. Being able to
use ICT systems effectively allows employees
more time to concentrate on areas of their job
role that require soft skills.
For example, many pharmacies use robot
technology to assist with picking prescribed
drugs. This allows highly trained
pharmaceutical staff to focus on jobs
requiring human intelligence and interaction,
such as dispensing and checking medication.
Nowadays, employers expect their staff to
have basic ICT skills. This expectation even
applies to job roles where ICT skills may not
have been an essential requirement in the
past. Nowadays, finding a job is different, you
can just use your smart phone, laptop, desktop
or any gadgets that is available in the comfort
of your home.
Education

Information and Communications Technology

(ICT) can Impact student learning when
teachers are digitally literate and understand
how to integrate it into curriculum.
 Schools use a diverse set of ICT tools to communicate,
create, disseminate, store, and manage information. (6)
in some contexts, ICT has also become integral to the
teaching- learning interaction, through such
approaches as replacing chalkboards with interactive
digital whiteboards, using students own smartphones
or other devices for learning during class time, and the
"flipped classroom" model where students watch
lectures at home on the computer and use classroom
time for more interactive exercises.
When teachers are digitally literate and
trained to use ICT, these approaches can lead
to higher order thinking skills, provide creative
and individualized options for students to
express their understandings, and leave
students better prepared to deal with ongoing
technological change in society and the
workplace.
The internet and social media provide young people
with a range of benefits, and opportunities to
empower themselves in a variety of ways. Young
people can maintain social connections and support
networks that otherwise wouldn't be possible and
can access more information than ever before. The
communities and social interactions young people
form online can be invaluable for bolstering and
developing young people's selfconfidence and social
skills.
As the ICT has become ubiquitous, faster and
increasingly accessible to non-technical
communities, social networking and collaborative
services have grown rapidly enabling people to
communicate and share interest in many more ways,
sites like Facebook, Twitter Linkedin You tube, Filcker,
second life delicious blogs wiki's and many more let
people of all ages rapidly share their interest of the
movement without others everywhere.
 C T OF ICT IN
IMPA
THE SO CIE TY
POSITIVE IMPACTS OF INFORMATION AND
COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY

1. Access to information: Increase in access to

information and services that has accompanied the
growth of the Internet. Some of the positive aspects
of this increased access are better, and often
cheaper. communications, such as VoIP phone and
Instant Messaging.
2. Improved access to education, e.g. distance
learning and online tutorials. New ways of
learning, e.g. interactive multi-media and
virtual reality.
3. New tools, new opportunities: ICT gives
access to new tools that did not previously
exist: digital cameras, photo-editing software
and high quality printers, screen magnification
or screen reading software enables partially
sighted or blind people to work with ordinary
text rather than Braille.
4. Communication: Cost savings by using e.g.
VoIP instead of normal telephone, email /
messaging instead of post, video conferencing
instead of traveling to meetings, e-commerce
web sites instead of sales catalogues. Access
to larger, even worldwide, markets.
5. Information management: Data mining of
customer information to produce lists for
targeted advertising. Improved stock control,
resulting in less wastage, better cash flow,
etc.
6. Security: ICT solves or reduces some
security problems, e.g. Encryption methods
can keep data safe from unauthorized people,
both while it is being stored or while it is being
sent electronically.
7. ICT allows people to participate in a wider,
even worldwide, society.

8. Distance learning: students can access

teaching materials from all over the world.

9. ICT facilitates the ability to perform

'impossible' experiments' by using simulations.
10. Creation of new more interesting jobs.
Examples would be systems analysts,
programmers and software engineers, as well
as help desk operators and trainers.
NEGATIVE IMPACTS OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION
TECHNOLOGY

1. Job loss: Manual operations being replaced by automation. e.g.

robots replacing people on an assembly line. Job export. e.g. Data
processing work being sent to other countries where operating costs
are lower. Multiple workers being replaced by a smaller number who
are able to do the same amount of work. e.g. A worker on a
supermarket checkout can serve more customers per hour if a bar-
code scanner linked to a computerized till is used to detect goods
instead of the worker having to enter the item and price manually
2. Reduce personal interaction: Most people
need some form of social interaction in their
daily lives and if they do not get the chance to
meet and talk with other people they may feel
isolated and unhappy.
3. personal interaction: Most people need
some form of social interaction in their daily
lives and if they do not get the chance to meet
and talk with other people they may feel
isolated and unhappy. This can lead to health
problems such as obesity, heart disease, and
diabetes.
Competition: this is usually thought of as being
a good thing, but for some organizations being
exposed to greater competition can be a
problem. If the organization is competing for
customers, donations, or other means of
funding nationally or even internationally, they
may lose out to other organizations that can
offer the same service for less money.
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