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What is Information and Communication Technology (ICT). How Information and Communication Technology (ICT) can improve teaching learning in the classroom. What are the possible disadvantages of using information technology in classroom?

All of the books in the world contain nor more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year, Carl Sagan ICT stand for information and communication technologies and is defined, as a “divers set of technological tools and resources used to communicated, and to create, disseminated, store, and manage information.”   ICT implies the technology which consists of electronic devices and associated human interactive materials that enable the user to employ them for a wide range of teaching-learning processes in addition to personal use.” This concept involves transfer and use of all kinds of information. ICT is the foundations of economy and driving force of social change in the 21 st century. Distance is no longer an issue when it comes to accessing information; for example, working-from-home, distance, e-banking, and e-government are now possible from any place with an internet connection and computing device. How Information a...

:What is the importance of student’s interest in an education system? How we can investigate the student’s interest?

The necessity of interest in education does not only mean that someone has an interest in learning about something.  It also means that when someone has an interest in something it becomes easy and even enjoyable to learn about that topic. Since people learn better when they have an interest in the subject material it seems that educators should begin by helping students develop interest.  If a student already has an interest in a certain subject, perhaps that topic can be referred to when teaching math concepts.  On the other hand when learning about events in history the challenge is for the teacher to present the information in a way that sparks the students interests. PRIMARY SCHOOL AGED CHILDREN ARE INTERESTED IN LEARNING ABOUT SPECIFIC SUBJECTS Most kids in elementary school develop an extreme interest in a certain subject like horses or dinosaurs.  Because they are interested in that subject they automatically have an interest in learning more about thos...

: Explain Wheeler Model of curriculum development.

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Answer: D.K. Wheeler was an educator at the University of Western Australia in 1967. He developed and extended the ideas by the work. Wheeler’s definition of curriculum: “the planned experiences offered to the learner under the guidance of the school”. He developed and extended the ideas by the work, Influenced by the work of Tyler, Taba, and Bloom. The wheeler curriculum model is prescriptive as well as cyclical (non- linear) with 5 inter- dependent stages. Wheeler’s 5 curriculum development stages 1.       Amis, goals and objective 2.       selection of learning experience 3.       selection of content 4.       organization and integration of learning experiences and content 5.       Evaluation Wheeler’s cyclical model has the advantage of flexibility over the linear models: it allows curriculum specialists to start working at any stage in the pr...