ICT CELL

Chairperson	Dr. Sneha Raikar
Co-ordinator	Ms. Manisha Sonavane
Student member	Ms. Shrishti Dhing

While technology can play an important role in restructuring teaching and learning practices, teachers must take a leading role in designing appropriate learning environments that effectively incorporate technology to help their students learn well with technology. Computer technology, as a tools, could empower students with thinking and learning skills, and help students interact with complex materials. However, computers alone cannot realize many educators’ vision for technology to improve education.

Need and Importance of the ICT Cell

Need

Lifelong Learning: Education is a continuous process, and there is a need for anytime, anywhere access.
Diverse Learning Needs: IT is essential to meet the needs of a variety of learners.
Technological Literacy: Society requires all individuals to be technologically literate.
Access and Cost Efficiency: IT helps increase access to education and reduce costs to combat illiteracy and poverty.

Importance

Learning Resources: Provides access to a variety of learning resources.
Information Access: Offers immediacy to information.
Flexible Learning: Supports anytime and anywhere learning.
Collaborative Learning: Facilitates collaborative learning experiences.
Multimedia Education: Utilizes a multimedia approach for more engaging education.
Up-to-Date Information: Ensures access to authentic and current information.
Online Libraries: Grants access to online libraries.
Engaging Teaching: Makes the teaching of different subjects more interesting.
Educational Data Storage: Enables storage of educational data.
Distance Education: Supports distance education.
Information Sources: Provides access to various sources of information.
Communication Channels: Uses multiple communication channels like email, chat, forums, and blogs.
Open Courseware: Facilitates access to open courseware.
Disability Access: Improves access for children with disabilities.
Efficiency: Reduces time on many routine tasks.

Significance of the ICT Cell

Impact of IT in Education: Continual developments in IT significantly affect education.
Change Pace: The rapid change brought about by new technologies influences lifestyles globally.
Challenge to Traditional Methods: New technologies challenge traditional teaching and learning processes.
Curriculum Impact: IT has a major impact across all curriculum areas.

ICT Integration at Oriental College of Education & Research

Oriental College of Education & Research integrates ICT into its teaching-learning process and encourages student-teachers to do the same through various activities: