ICT FOR EDUCATION – Induction Message for Teacher Trainee

ICT FOR EDUCATION – Induction Message for Teacher Trainee

         By

Victor Akinola

ICT Director, Adeniran Ogunsanya College of Education,

Ijanikin, Lagos, Nigeria.

The appreciation of ICT and man’s involvement in it has increased his curiosity to learn about computer. Its speed, accuracy and efficiency in the accomplishment of various tasks and events are particularly inviting if not supreme to all forms of planning, control and improvements. The use of ICT in education brings forth utmost achievements of individualism via differences and characteristic changes in time, things and events. ICT is gaining clearer recognition with modern applications and acquisition from generation to generation and environment to environment.

Virtually all facets of human endeavor now integrate Computer/ ICT to an extent that whoever is not computer literate will feel obsolete at home, at work, in the market, in the schools and even on their own. We all need to migrate to the digital world because the modern world in this century has evolved new species of man beyond the Homo sapien to Homo sapien digital. (Prensky, 2009)

Modern age humans can be classified further based on their digital inclination, adaptation and applications as follows:

Constant Application	Digital specification
No application (digital illiterate)	Homo sapien sapien (digital hesistants)
Varieties of digital devices	Homo sapien digital
Internet	Homo sapien interneticus
Youtube	Homo sapien youtubellian
Facebook	Homo sapien facebookian
Whatsapp	Homo sapien whatsappian
Google	Homo sapien google
Wikipedia	Homo sapien wikipedia
Skype	Homo sapien skypellian
Instagram	Homo sapien instagramatica
Linkedin	Homo sapien linkedinus
Blog	Homo sapien blogus
Eskimi	Homo sapien eskimi
Wechat	Homo sapien wechatian

Table 1: Faces in digital speciation.

while other digital faces can be isolated, a scholar can align with these enlisted faces.

These new species are the only people that will continue to work, to talk, to interact and to develop projects and Programmes. Those who refuse to belong will become obsolete and extinct in their profession and communities.

 It is indeed doubtful if the next 500 years will not produce machines that are versatile as man in skills, intelligence and maneuvering, the infusion of ICT springs prompt solubility and digitalization of teaching and learning through ICT resource networking, the use of ICT in education will among other things facilitate the making of a genius out of an idiot. Digitalized lessons will collapse classroom walls, distance from home to schools/resource centres as well as the gap between teacher and students.

Mobile devices are ubiquitous in the academic institutions (possessed by virtually all students) just as band-width

are also ubiquitous. Prospective students secure admission into respective institutions through on-line admission, on-line registration (learners are encouraged to imbide the doctrine of ‘do it yourself ’) got their results processed and published on-line. Now the academic interface that requests great infusion and integration to the digital platform is the class content contact. This is so because of the requirement for the Learning Management System (LMS), Integrated Learning System (ILS), strong bandwidth extension and constant electricity. This is however soluble because learning has began to take new dimensions (Akinola, 2015, Smith and okebukola, 2015).

The conceptual shift is in the direction of promoting constructivist and technology- mediated learning using mobile learning (ML) and social media.

Mobile learning (ML) simply involves the use of personal electronics devices to learn across multiple contexts with social contents interactions, It is a sub-set of e-learning. Learners can use mobile devices on any topic or content at their conveniences.

M-learning technologies include handheld computers, Mp3 players, notebooks and other fablets and tablets which focus on the mobility of the learner in interacting with various contents. Mobile learning is convenient in that it is accessible from virtually anywhere. While sharing is almost instantaneous among everyone using the same content, feedback is immediate.

Mobile learning replaces books and notes with miniature devices that are filled with generalized and tailored learning content. They are highly portable and they are used to drive Social media. Social media are computer mediated tools that allow people to create, share or exchange information, ideas, pictures& videos in virtual communities and networks. They generate substantial and pervasive changes in communication between individuals, groups, communities and organizations.

Learners are invited to use mobile learning and social-media platform with strong scholarship acumen and academic thoughtforms. Good practices also involve the use of module, e-portfolios, video conferencing and   Open Educations Resources (OER). These infusions, shall indeed expand access to education, strengthen the relevance of education to individuals & society and migrate teaching process to an engaging active process connected to the lives of the learners.

Our schools will no longer be mere venues for the transmission of presumed set of information from the teacher to students over a fixed period of time rather; schools will now be in a better stead to provide competency based learning through the acquisition of knowledge and skills that promotes continuous professional and lifelong learning.

Teachers will no longer be an authoritarian sage on the stage; teachers will no longer be an ordinary dispenser of information but an instructional engineer, a guide by the side, a facilitator, a learning mediator a motivator, a supervisor, a researcher and designer of instructional content and packages.

You are Welcome to our age of Digitalized Teacher Education.

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