ICT as an informative tool

                          My understanding on ICT as an informative tool

To me, Information and communication technology was just a search tool until I was taken aback by the lesson on ICT as an informative tool. Then only I came to know that, ICT is an application that can afford profound information in various formats such as sound, text, video and graphics and it is considered as an inert source of information. I should say that life of people has changed drastically over a few years. The only source of information in the past are books and to have concrete information, one has to go through whole book. But in this technology world, information can be found easily in a short period of time.

ICT does not really do anything, rather it is considered as huge, passive repositories of information, upon reading the above statement, I came to know that, we shouldn’t just depend fully on the information we get from internet. We should know how to evaluate the resources from the web whether it is authentic, reliable, current and objective. As a learner we should know to analyze, synthesize and come up something new on our own. 

There are different search tools to be used for searching information and we can get information on any topics be it academic or non academic.
for example: we have google, internet, chrome, google scholar and ........


                                                 fig 1.2: example of  search tool 

                                       
As a teacher we should teach students on how to use the information, which can include reliability, plagiarism, right search engines and ethical and unethical practices. Taking them through internet web evaluation that contains five criteria’s: Accuracy, Authority, Objectivity, Currency, Coverage, would be the best way to let students learn on their own to analyze the information from the web.

For example: We were asked to design presentation on Doklam Standoff and to give our stand at the end of the presentation. To do that, i had to search information from internet and there were many information related to Dokam crisis. It really made me to analyze and synthesize the information to come up with my own presentation. That's how we as a teacher should tech our students to use internet resources. 

Follow the following link to have a look on how i have designed a presentation on Doklam crisis using information from internet. 

click here for Doklam presentation

We can retrieve different types of  daily information through ICT in a short period of time. We get to know more information about other countries, their education system, their policies and their view towards world. for example: we get daily information on the Covid-19 cases through media. Therefore, i should say that, ICT is a repositories of vast information. 

                                           Daily information retrieve from media 

Different types of media to get reliable information in our daily lives. 
1. BBS
2. Facebook 

3. radio