Importance of ICT

The changes that we have all beared witness to represent a significant period in our lives. For myself, these changes have been technological in their nature.With most of the world in lockdown, due to the pandemic, people are working from home if they can, students are learning from home in an online format and parents are picking up the slack from teachers and supporting their children. 

What is ICT?

It was not until later on in my teaching career that the term Information and Communication Technology (ICT) materialised before me and opened my eyes to what this meant in education. The term ICT simplified means any technology that has to do with information and communication.

Information can come in many forms such as sound, video, text, and images, so when you think of what technology it is available that produces these aspects of information and sometimes a combination of all these, we refer to such technology as mobile phones, digital cameras, video cameras for example.

Today information and communication technologies are the one thing and so the repertoire of technologies expands further to encompass computers and computer-related products, email, MMS, and other forms of communication (Finger et al., 2007).