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How might ICT be used to help student learning?

How might ICT be used to help student learning?

by Jean de la Paix Nkurunziza -
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How would you use technology to improve or enhance your teaching? In the forum, below, brainstorm and compile lists on the following:

How might ICT be used to help student learnin

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by Ferdinand Twayigira -
-ICT can helps students in their learning trough conducting a research  about a particular topic.

-ICT can give students great resources, new opportunities for learning, ways to collaborate and create, and save money. Technology is a very powerful tool for education.

-Money is always an issue in education and ICT can help. Virtual field trips, electronic forms instead of paper, email instead of printed memo’s, virtual labs, electronic textbooks, and there are many  free online resources can all save schools money and give students excellent educational experiences.

-ICT can help the students from creating things such as web sites, blogs, and multimedia presentations as part of their studies. They can also use the web for research and as a resource. They can connect with students from other schools and do collaborate with them. 

-it helps also the students to communicate with teacher for a particular issue 

-students can enjoy ICT's for the purpose of informing their parents about the the school information related to day to day life

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by Josias Rwambikana -

- To let students access ICT easily

- To explain for them good and bad of using ICT

- To give them knowledgeable teacher who encourage them for using ICT

- To help them to count time and manage it.

- To give them updated materials of ICT

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by Aimable Habiyambere -

  1. they can access knowledge anytime and from anywhere.
  1. it helps them in self-study or tutorials on PCs.
  1. it is motivating
  1. they can share information through social media
  1.  I CT provides creative and innovation to the students.
  1. it facilitate their research 
  1.  they will be given the good content, etc.


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by Methode Urimubenshi -

 1. Having more internet connection


2. More researches would be done using ICT


3. Using updated documents


4. Time management.


 5. Better Simulations and Models


6. Global Learning


7. Virtual Manipulatives


8. More Efficient Assessment


9. E-books


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by Christine Musabyemaliya -

ICTs can increase learner autonomy for certain learners

ICTs motivate teachers and students

There are few successful models for the integration of student computer use at home or in other 'informal settings' outside of school facilities with use in school.


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by Gaspard Hitimana -
not only that but also ICT can help students to do their own research on internet. here they will get more comparatively to what they could get from teacher without using ICT. here,the content is centered to students rather than being centered to teacher. teacher is a facilitator.
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by Clarisse Niyongabire -

1.Learners use ICT in critical thinking

2.discussion

3.reasoning

4.interpretation

5.creativity

6.communication

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by Clarisse Niyongabire -

1.Learners use ICT in critical thinking

2.discussion

3.reasoning

4.interpretation

5.creativity

6.communication

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by Jules Nshimyumuremyi -

ICT will help students learning as they will be able access courses wherever they are

They will have a global knowledge

They will ne able to discuss in their schools as enter-class, enter-schools and world wide

So their knowledge will no longer depend on what the Teacher knows onlly as it was in dôme cases

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by John Peter Gacinya Nsabimana -
Information and communication technologies are currently being used in education to assist students to learn more effectively by providing teachers with access to a wide range of new pedagogy. These technologies are also being used to enable teachers to do administrative tasks more efficiently. This paper outlines a new use for information and communication technologies that offers something different. This new use enables students to show teachers how to improve teaching and, in doing this, it enables students to have more informed and more profitable access to teachers' knowledge and skills. The paper suggests that, although problematic in application, this approach may represent a 'quantum leap' in educational effectiveness.
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by Olivier Habimana -

It is generally believed that ICTs can empower teachers and learners, promote change and foster the development of ‘21st century skills, but data to support these beliefs are still limited.


There is widespread belief that ICTs can and will empower teachers and learners, transforming teaching and learning processes from being highly teacher-dominated to student-centered, and that this transformation will result in increased learning gains for students, creating and allowing for opportunities for learners to develop their creativity, problem-solving abilities, informational reasoning skills, communication skills, and other higher-order thinking skills. However, there are currently very limited, unequivocally compelling data to support this belief.

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by Chantal Mukarutabana -
  •  The learners can access knowledge anytime and from anywhere.
  •  The student use I CT to complete their information through research .
  •  I CT can help student in self-study or tutorials on PCs.
  •  I CT contributes to student motivation for learning.
  • The learner can share information through social media
  •  I CT provides creative and innovation to the students.

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by Jean Pierre Uwimana -

It used by student to make research on a given topic

it used to see some demonstration of something they don't have on laboratories

It used to do online learning like this

it used to share documents


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by Deleted user -

How MIGHT ICT BE USED TO HELP STUDENT LEARING

  1. It is currently being used in education to assist student to learn more effectively
  2. it shows teacher how to improve teaching
  3.  Allow student to express creativity for difficult to assess subject
  4. Communication platforms like Twitter, Facebook, or Tumblr enable dynamic communication with students
  5. It helps also the students to communicate with teacher for a particular issue 
  6. They can connect with students from other schools and do collaborate with them.
  7.   They can also use the web for researching different resources.
  8. ICT can help the students for creating web sites, blogs, apart from their studies.
  9. it enables students to have more informed and more profitable access to teachers
  10. It uses enables students to show teachers how to improve teaching


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by Edmond Niyonzima -

Students should be encouraged to do their work, researches using ICTs and provide ICTs for them to encourage them to manipulate and use them

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by Jean Bosco RUTIKANGA -

we have primerly let our students access to ICT tools and help them to manupulate and use them properly the encourage them  to do their work, researches using ICTs. we have of course to set rules and regulations guiding the discipline of our students while using ict in their learning process. this will be usefull to learners in such a way that:

  1. they can access knowledge anytime and from anywhere.
  2. it helps them in self-study or tutorials on PCs.
  3. it is motivating
  4. they can share information through social media
  5.  I CT provides creative and innovation to the students.
  6. it facilitate their research 
  7.  they will be given the good content, etc.




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by Abudu Habimana -

ICT is the rapid and more powerful tool which help students in: 

- Making research

-Presentation of works given and their submission

-Motivation

-Sharing ideas with far friends

-Promotion of their talents,....

-Making easy understanding of the world,...

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by Jean Baptiste NTIRENGANYA -

ICT help the students in their learning activities by doing different researches on the internet, 

Sharing information with the other students located in other area,

It used as the tool for communication between two parties.

It can help them to create their job. 

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by INNOCENT ZIRAKWIYE -

Information and communication technologies (ICT) are currently being used in education to assist students to learn more effectively by providing teachers with access to a wide range of new pedagogy. ICT will help for: Global Learning, Virtual Manipulative, More Efficient Assessment and E-books


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by Anastasie Mukarugomwa -

ICT be used to help student to: Activities determined, working in teams, find new solutions to problems and integrating theory and practice works.


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by Francois Hakizimana -

The following document will explain more about how ICT can help learning of student

Thomas Edison once said, “Books will soon be obsolete in the public schools…our school system will be completely changed inside of ten years.” Amazingly enough, however, one of our nation’s most important inventors was proven quite wrong. The American education system has a remarkable resistance to innovation and the classroom experience has changed very little in the 100 years since Edison’s prediction.

Advances in information technology have revolutionized how people communicate and learn in nearly every aspect of modern life except for education. The education system operates under the antiquated needs of an agrarian and industrial America. The short school day and the break in the summer were meant to allow children to work on family farms. Schools have an enduring industrial mentality placing students in arbitrary groups based on their age regardless of their competencies.

Technology has failed to transform our schools because the education governance system insulates them from the disruptions that technology creates in other organizations. The government regulates schools perhaps more than any other organization. Rules govern where students study, how they will learn, and who will teach them. Education regulation governs the relationships of actors in the system and stymies the impact of innovative technologies. Furthermore the diffuse system of governance creates numerous veto points to limit innovation.

To overcome these obstacles, we must persuade teachers that technology will empower them and help their students learn. We argue that there are five strategies for successful teacher adoption of education technology and that these principles will help fulfill the potential that Edison saw a century ago:

Schools must use technology that empowers teachers. Teachers rightly reject education technologies that divert their attention from instruction. The best education technologies enable teachers to do more with fewer resources. Communication platforms like Twitter, Facebook, or Tumblr enable dynamic communication with students. Teacher-empowering technologies include mobile apps that grade written student work and provide lesson plan databases. School systems need to aggressively track what works for their teachers and put all other unworkable technologies aside.

Teachers should treat the adoption of technology as part of lesson planning. One of the major drivers of bad policy is policy churn. New district leaders want to make their mark adopting new policies and jettisoning the old. This constant changing of priorities makes beneficial reforms difficult to implement. Teachers can incorporate technology directly into their practice and insulate their students from the deleterious effects of policy churn. For example teachers can use Khan Academy or other online resources to improve remediation. Systematic adoption of technology at the classroom levels limits the damage of shifting policy maker priorities.

Teachers should not fear open-source technologies. Many mistakenly believe that education technologies are expensive and complicated to use. Open-source technologies are stable, secure, and compatible with other platforms. Organizations both small and large use open source devices every day. Many businesses use open-source servers for their efficiency and costs savings. They often have large communities that provide high quality customer support. Best of all, open-source technologies often cost less than proprietary products.

Use online education portfolios to evaluate students. Educators have known about the benefits of paper based portfolios for generations. Portfolios allow students to express creativity for difficult to assess subjects. Teachers can choose from a variety of online portfolio providers tailored to the needs of their classroom. They also serve as a platform for students to demonstrate growth. Online portfolios have many advantages over paper based options because they cost less and allow for more robust outreach. Online portfolios are also amenable to a wider variety of formats including video, music or other interactive features.

Teachers should embrace the Common Core State Standards. Common standards make teaching simpler. Teachers have to write lessons that comply with district, state, and national standards (e.g. NCTM or NCTE). Having a single set of standards eliminates redundancy and conflicting guidelines. Furthermore universal adoption of common standards will support future technological innovations that aid teachers. From a technical perspective, standards facilitate the development of new technologies. Innovators can focus on developing tools that better serve students rather than solving technical challenges of interoperability created by multiple sets of standards.

Undoubtedly weak financial support inhibits the adoption of education technology. Despite this obstacle, teachers working together have tremendous potential to reform education. Every day teachers face choices about how to implement the curriculum and instruct students. Those moments are opportunities for teachers to engage in education reform that has a real impact on students. Teachers should use education technologies that are inexpensive, easy to use, and improve student learning.

 


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by Jean Baptiste NTIRENGANYA -

ICT help the students in their learning activities by doing different researches on the internet, 

Sharing information with the other students located in other area,

It used as the tool for communication between two parties.

It can help them to create their job. 

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by Aimable Munyensanga -
  • Make easy communication and  fast.
  • Time management
  • using the update document from internet connection.
  • improve the skills of learners easily.
  • to make research around the world
  • to develop their knowledge to different matter.
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by Aimable Munyensanga -
  • Make easy communication and  fast.
  • Time management
  • using the update document from internet connection.
  • improve the skills of learners easily.
  • to make research around the world
  • to develop their knowledge to different matter.
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by Jean Theoneste NZABIRINDA -
-Easy access to information -Downloading books -communication with others -videos about lessons are provided -Leaners are motivated when researching using internet. -etc
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by Francois Hitiyaremye -
  • ICT offers students the capacity to construct their own learning experiences.
  • ICT enable the student who needs special educational to accomplish working task at their own pace.
  • ICT help students to communicate easily.
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by Gaspard Hitimana -
ICT can help students learning in different ways.for example if they are studying biology,the teacher can start by downloading a video concerning the topic of the day and students watch it attentively.then after a teacher asks students questions about what they have seen and understood in that video. it is the same that the teacher can download some picture concerning the lesson and show them to the students.
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by Obed Bisangabagabo -
In order to facilitate students learning, ICT might be used in creating many activities that engage all learners, that make all learners active. ICT also might be used in creating visual aids because learners learn well if they are looking what they are learning. so visualization is important.

Besides, ICT might be used in a way that let the learners manipulate themselves because learners are motivated when they manipulating and watching what they are manipulating.
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by Jean de Dieu Munyaneza -

 1.It supports students' ability to express ideas and become fluent with technologies

2. Students learn to use ICT tools and interact with Technologies

3. Students are able to choose and drive the design of the PBL (create the scratch game) 

4. The students can receive feedback to improve their work and can display it to an audience (Share it)

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by Celestin Ndayisenga -

Here are some ways on how Technology can Improving learning

1.  Better Simulations and Models

While a tuning fork is a perfectly acceptable way to demonstrate how vibrations make sound, it’s harder to show students what evolution is, how molecules behave in different situations, or exactly why mixing two particular chemicals is dangerous.

Digital simulations and models can help teachers explain concepts that are too big or too small, or processes that happen too quickly or too slowly to demonstrate in a physical classroom.

2.  More Efficient Assessment

Models and simulations, beyond being a powerful tool for teaching concepts, can also give teachers a much richer picture of how students understand them.

"You can ask students questions, and multiple choice questions do a good job of assessing how well students have picked up vocabulary," Dorsey explains.  

3.  Storytelling and Multimedia

In the video, the students demonstrated the principle that makes flight possible by taking two candles and putting them close together, showing that blowing between them brings the flames closer together.

4.  E-books

E-books hold an unimaginable potential for innovating education, though as some schools have already discovered, not all of that potential has been realized yet.

5.  Epistemic Games

 

Epistemic games put students in roles like city planner, journalist, or engineer and ask them to solve real-world problems.

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by Aphrodis Ndorimana -

Information and communication technologies are currently being used in education to assist students to learn more effectively by providing teachers with access to a wide range of new pedagogy.

These technologies are also being used to enable teachers to do administrative tasks more efficiently.

 it enables students to have more informed and more profitable access to teachers' knowledge and skills.

It provides more independence to teachers and students by:

Better use of learning resources : a presentation once made through use of technologies can be showed to students over and over again.

Motivating to learn:ICTs combine text, sound, and colourful, moving images that increase learners' motivation and their interest to learn.

Facilitating the acquisition of basic concepts that are the foundation for higher order concepts and creativity can be facilitated through drill and practice as repetition and reinforcement of content and skills are being focused.


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by Celestin Ntuzibagirwe -

. ICT motivate students while learning

. ICT reduces the tiredness when watching some videos

 .ICT HELP students to different information around the world

 . ICT increase the knowledge and skills 

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by Alphonse Bikorimana -
Use online education portfolios to evaluate students :  Educators have known about the benefits of paper based portfolios for generations. Portfolios allow students to express creativity for difficult to assess subjects. Teachers can choose from a variety of online portfolio providers tailored to the needs of their classroom. They also serve as a platform for students to demonstrate growth. Online portfolios have many advantages over paper based options because they cost less and allow for more robust outreach. Online portfolios are also amenable to a wider variety of formats including video, music or other interactive features.


 Teachers should embrace the Common Core State Standards:  Common standards make teaching simpler. Teachers have to write lessons that comply with district, state, and national standards (e.g. NCTM or NCTE). Having a single set of standards eliminates redundancy and conflicting guidelines. Furthermore universal adoption of common standards will support future technological innovations that aid teachers. From a technical perspective, standards facilitate the development of new technologies. Innovators can focus on developing tools that better serve students rather than solving technical challenges of interoperability created by multiple sets of standards. 

Schools must use technology that empowers teachers:  Teachers rightly reject education technologies that divert their attention from instruction. The best education technologies enable teachers to do more with fewer resources. Communication platforms like Twitter, Facebook, or Tumblr enable dynamic communication with students. Teacher-empowering technologies include mobile apps that grade written student work and provide lesson plan databases. School systems need to aggressively track what works for their teachers and put all other unworkable technologies aside. 

Teachers should not fear open-source technologies:  Many mistakenly believe that education technologies are expensive and complicated to use. Open-source technologies are stable, secure, and compatible with other platforms. Organizations both small and large use open source devices every day. Many businesses use open-source servers for their efficiency and costs savings. They often have large communities that provide high quality customer support. Best of all, open-source technologies often cost less than proprietary products.

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by Jean Baptiste Mushimiyimana -
  1. Communication platforms like Twitter, Facebook, or Tumblr enable dynamic communication with students
  2. It helps also the students to communicate with teacher for a particular issue 
  3. They can connect with students from other schools and do collaborate with them.
  4.   They can also use the web for researching different resources.
  5. ICT can help the students for creating web sites, blogs, apart from their studies.
  6. it enables students to have more informed and more profitable access to teachers
  7. It uses enables students to show teachers how to improve teaching


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by Jeremie Vuguziga -

ICT has play an essential role for every students in their education, the purposes of ICT for students are to enable them to acquire the skills that needed for the future higher studies or the digital world, which then help them to easily get a job in future. Besides, the critical thinking and analytic skill are needed for students in their future. ICT with the purpose to promote those thinking and skills of students by self developing. Thus, student will no longer depends on the teacher anymore as it would transform the classroom environment from teacher- centric to student-centric learning. In addition, the purpose of ICT is to offer an effective learning environment for students which then increase their performance in academic. Lastly, ICT is to enhance the existing curriculum and pedagogy for teaching and learning.

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by FeIicien Ngirinshuti -

The follow are the ways that ICT might help student learning

1. Use smart classrooms properly

2. Teach students how they can be familiar with ICT tools

3. Time management

4. Learning by doing

5. Using the update document from internet connection.6. Improve the skills of learners easily.7. To make research around the world8. Motivate the learners to create a simple project based learning.






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by Emmanuel Karangwa -
1. ICT can give students great resources, new opportunities for learning, ways to collaborate and create, and save money. 2. Technology is a very powerful tool for education. 3. ICT can help the students from creating things such as web sites, blogs, and multimedia presentations as part of their studies. 4. it helps also the students to communicate with teacher for a particular issue 5. The learners can access knowledge anytime and from anywhere. 6. The learner can share information through social media 7. I CT provides creative and innovation to the students. 8. Use online education portfolios to evaluate students 9. It helps also the students to communicate with teacher for a particular issue 10. it enables students to have more informed and more profitable access to teachers 11. Make easy communication and fast time management 12. share information through social media 13. Teachers should not fear open-source technologies 14. improve the skills of learners easily. 15. Using the update document from internet connection
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by Eric Munyaneza -

The follow are the ways that ICT might help student learning

1. Use smart classrooms properly

2. Teach students how they can be familiar with ICT tools

3. Time management

4. Learning by doing

 5. Having more internet connection

6. More researches would be done using ICT

7. Using updated documents

8. Global Learning

9. More Efficient Assessment

9. E-books

10. Communication platforms like Twitter, Facebook, or what-apps,  enable dynamic communication with others students in order to share ideas.

11.It helps also the students to communicate with teacher for a particular issue 

12. They can connect with students from other schools and do collaborate with them.

13.  They can also use the web for researching different resources.

14. ICT can help the students for creating web sites, blogs, what-apps groups, e-mail,... apart from their studies.




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by LEONIDAS MUDAHIGWA -

They also learn technology skills while doing these projects. Money is always an issue in education and technology can help. ... Technology can give teachers and students great resources, new opportunities for learning, ways to collaborate and create, and save money. Technology is a very powerful tool for education.

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by Jackson Bizumuremyi -

ICT has play an essential role for every students in their education, the purposes of ICT for students are to enable them to acquire the skills that needed for the future higher studies or the digital world, which then help them to easily get a job in future. Besides, the critical thinking and analytic skill are needed for students in their future. ICT with the purpose to promote those thinking and skills of students by self developing. Thus, student will no longer depends on the teacher anymore as it would transform the classroom environment from teacher- centric to student-centric learning. In addition, the purpose of ICT is to offer an effective learning environment for students which then increase their performance in academic. Lastly, ICT is to enhance the existing curriculum and pedagogy for teaching and learning.

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by Jean Baptiste Uwayezu -
l use lCT in my teaching to prepare teaching aids help the students to make research to get skills from to experts
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by Anastase Nzabirinda -

ICT can surely help in enhancing teaching and learning activities in the following ways:

Making research for teachers and students for further understanding of the subject matter regards.

 Safely making and keeping pedagogical documents.

.ICT tools play a role in delivering the content to the students by means of computers and projectors.

.ICT tools enable teachers to clearly use images and videos downloaded to the Internet in teaching and learning activities.

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by Rose Dusabe -

As we know  students learn best through  visual and taching  rathan hearing and ICT can help these students ‘experience’ the information instead of just reading and hearing it.

Learner can access the content anytime and anywhere,

Learner can do research on internet for more Understanding   about topic tought by the teacher

I CT enable student motivation for learning.

The learner can share information through social media

 I CT support creative and innovation to the students