The Advantages Of Using Ict In The Classroom

THE ADVANTAGES OF USING ICT IN THE CLASSROOM
Nowadays ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) are essential in our lives. If we pay attention, every day each of us are in contact with somebranches of the new technologies. For this reason, teachers and their schools will need to adapt to changes by learning uses and methods of applications of the new technologies.
In this article wewould like to discuse (discus or discuss?) about how we can be adapted to ICT but also the evidence that the embrace of ICT in education can help to improve memory retention, increase motivation andenrich understanding.
In this article we are going to talk about several points in favor of the ICT at school, such as: sharing resources, sharing spaces, collaborative learning, autonomous learning andthe new role of the teacher in the classroom.
Finally we sum up with a reflection about the future of education including ICT’s.

Sharing resources
The use of new technologies allows us to reducespending by using centralized services, which provoke that the whole school is interconnected, that fact permits to optimize time and space because the information can be used anywhere and whenteachers need it. Moreover, there are schools that use television monitors to provide details of timetables, projects, assessments, mealtime menus and a large number of information. There are veryinteresting projects that broadcast videos created by children and echo their opinions.

Sharing learning spaces
Everyone, teachers and students, have their own learning space. These spaces can be realor virtual: real spaces are those ones who have people for personal uses, like personal computers, mobile phones, computers table, television or e-books, behind many others. Virtual spaces are in anundefined place like blogs on-line or virtual documents that everyone can see and can use to get information.
In these spaces, virtual and real, there are a lot of resources and material that all...