Over the last decade, information and communication technologies (ICT) have enabled changes in the way people live, work, interact and acquire knowledge. New technologies, and especially social computing, provide new opportunities for education and training, as they enhance learning and teaching, and facilitate collaboration, innovation and creativity for individuals and organizations.
The benefits of deploying social computing and ICT for learning is obvious, I’d like to give an example of my real life. In past few years, the traditional way of education is always that the teachers are teaching knowledge in front of the classroom, while students are only listening or sometimes be required to answer a question in the class, and then they do homework after school independently without any deeply discussion with classmates, nor searching some relative information on the internet.
But nowadays, With the help of fast development of Information Communication Technology (ICT), “blended learning” is applied in modern education. It brought a great change to education as it combined both face-to-face learning and e-learning. It built up a new teaching and learning environment for teachers and students. Blended learning offers opportunities to express opinions in various ways, according to students' own preference. For instance, those who are active in class may speak much in discussion face to face while those who are shy may also have chances to express their attitudes online. Learning is not limited at the classroom and even school level. More importantly, all the discussion online is visible, the differences of contribution to the groups and the class will be made clear.
I lifted above is the good example of ICT-innovative.Thank you for reading.
- By Olivia
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