THE IMPORTANCE OF ICT IN EDUCATION
THE IMPORTANCE OF ICT IN EDUCATION

Summary/Abstract: In the modern-day society, information means power. The better and faster informed one is, the more proficient, effective, and powerful he is. Therefore, the access of the teacher to Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is a must for personal professional development as well as for fruitful class activity reflected in the students’ level of acquired knowledge. Of the actors involved in the educational process, namely the teacher and the student, the teacher is the one who is naturally expected to “adjust” the educational environment and “overcome” any teaching obstacle.In the light of these ideas, teaching English as a foreign language (EFL) within the global context of increased use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) both by language knowledge “providers” (teachers) and language knowledge “beneficiaries” (students) has become a modern educational challenge. It strongly imposes the reassessment of methods and approaches, a balanced consideration of the amount of ICT tools to be used effectively to enhance skills as well as a common agreement on the optimum means to integrate them in the educational process.

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