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ICT AWARENESS OF B.Ed TRAINEES

 

 

 

 

   ICT AWARENESS OF B.Ed TRAINEES   
 

Introduction:  

      Education is a process of human enlightment and empowerment for the achievement of a better and higher quality of life. Teaching is an ever changing profession. The field of education is expanding each year as advancement is made in technology and brain based research. To keep pace with the changing world, teachers must have current knowledge and skills of educational technology. A teacher is the one who has and give updated knowledge to the younger generation on par with global standard. 

      Teacher is the yardstick who measures the achievements and aspirations of the nations. Students who are the pillars of the future society should be trained to face various challenges by improving their technical ability not only to deal with any problem but also to overcome the problem and accomplish their task.  

      Educators continually strive to maximize the effectiveness and efficiency of their instruction by identifying and comparing alternative method of teaching and learning.

      ICT is an essential tool for achieving sustainability and will help in enabling better and increased access to information to enrich the teaching learning process. Teaching is a process in which the teacher and students create an interactive environment 

Importance of ICT in Education:

      ICT in Education is the foundation upon which a country develops. It is a dynamic force in the life of every individual influencing his physical, mental, emotional, social and ethical developments. It is a complete development of the individuality of a child enabling him to make original contribution to human life  

 

Review of related literature:     

Jasmine kumar and et al, conducted study on “professional competency of teachers and teacher educators in relation to their ICT usage” with the sample of 30 teacher educators and 50 teacher from Government, Government Aided and Aided Minority institution in Chennai city, Tamilnadu. Reported that professional competency and ICT usage are significantly related.  

Selvam .M. conducted a study on “Attitude of matriculation teachers towards educational technology – an investigation” with 79 teachers selected from the matriculation schools located in Erode as sample concluded that there is no significant difference in the mean attitude scores of matriculation teachers towards Educational Technology between the sub-variables like gender, age, religion and marital status.  

Angel Rathnabai, conducted study on “Infusing ICT in teaching learning process: A Reflection” places namely Mysore, Pondicherry and Tumkur. It was hypothesized that CAI approach would be effective than traditional approach on acquisition and retention of knowledge and it would be an effective reinforcement tool. The students undergoing the CAI approach has found to score more in knowledge acquisition test and in the test conducted after reinforcement than the students undergoing traditional approach. The mean scores reveal that the students under CAI approach has scored more than the students under traditional approach in the delayed test conducted after a month. Thus infusing ICT in teaching learning process enhances the teaching and learning which in turn provides the quality education.  

Illayaperumal, in a study on “Perception of student teachers towards the role of technology in education for sustainable development “ with the sample of 100 student teachers (50 B.Ed., and 50 D.T.Ed.,) selected  from the union territory of Puducherry, Concluded that the perceptions of student teachers are above average. Also a significant difference is observed between the groups regarding locality, type of selection and community. Therefore it is necessary for our future teachers to have the knowledge and understanding of the role of ICT in sustainable development. 

Priya, a study on “An analysis of web usage among teacher educators and student teachers”  reported that WWW is considered as an important learning environment among the Student Teachers and Teacher Educators. The Student teachers access the Web more than the Teacher Educators. It shows that the internet has not penetrated fully in every sphere of life, particularly in the academia.  

Objectives of the study:

To assess the ICT awareness of B.Ed Trainees
To assess the Teaching skills of B.Ed Trainees 
To find out the relationship between ICT awareness and Teaching skills of B.Ed Trainees

 

Need for the study            

      Teachers have always played a crucial role in preparing communities and societies towards exploring new horizons and achieving higher levels of progress and development. Hence  effective combination of Educational Technology  and teaching skills contribute solutions to the problems of the country b y developing desirable understanding of attitudes, skills and abilities of the students. 

      The role of teachers is complex to meet the individual needs of the learners.

      The teachers face innumerable number of challenges in their daily classroom teaching. They are to be equipped with the most relevant research works and progress taking place in the technology of teaching, this also enhances the quality of teaching. 

 

Method & Procedure

Descriptive survey research is used in this study.

Sample

50 B.Ed students (35 girls & 15 boys ) constitute the sample for this study. 

Tools used:

ICT awareness tool (constructed and standardized  by the investigators) with five dimensions viz B.Ed students’ perception towards ICT, B.Ed students’ awareness towards ICT, B.Ed students’ attitude towards ICT, B.Ed students’ teaching effectiveness and ICT and B.Ed students’utilization of ICT resources  and Teaching skills tool  (my.daemen.edu/teacher skills checklist.doc) with 89 statements under these subheadings on a three point scale ( Caring, Fairness and Respect, Interactions with students, Enthusiasm, Motivation, Dedication to teaching, Reflective practice, Classroom, Organization, Disciplining students, Importance of Instruction, Time  Allocation, Teacher Expectation, Instruction plans, Instructional strategies, Content and Expectations, Complexity, Questioning, Student engagement, Homework, Monitoring student progress and Responding to student needs and abilities) are the tools used in this study.  

 

Findings of the study 

  There is no significant difference between Male and Female B.Ed students in their teaching skills         
 There is no significant difference between Male and Female B.Ed students                  in their ICT awareness
 There is low positive correlation between  ICT awareness and Teaching skills of B.Ed students.

Implications of the study:

This study is helpful to

Establish the ICT based culture among the teacher trainees.
Cultivate the trainees’ enthusiasm for ICT to make their society into “informative society”.
ICT stimulates educators to start a revolution in the whole educational system.
ICT enhances the awareness among the trainees to increase their capab ility and independence to search for and acquire the knowledge they need in their teaching process.
Expose them to environments of positive world-wide competence which leads into quality-based attitudes in their future teaching process.

Conclusion:

ICT has undoubtedly become a powerful tool that is breaking the traditional methods of education. ICT based teaching learning process may lead to effectiveness and efficiency of educational system. Now a day, most of the educational institute has ICT facilities in their college itself. They are sensitizing the relevance and importance of ICT in teacher education field. An attempt is made to study ICT awareness among B.Ed Trainees. Based on the findings, the implications of the study are suggested.

Reference:

1. Jasmine kumar and et al., (2007) “professional competency of teachers and teacher educators in relation to their ICT usage” proceedings of International Seminar held at Periyar University

2. Selvam .M (2007), ”Attitude of matriculation teachers towards educational technology – an investigation” proceedings of International Seminar held at Periyar University

3. Angel Rathnabai (2007), “Infusing ICT in teaching learning process: A Reflection” proceedings of International Seminar held at Periyar University

4. Illayaperumal (2007),  ”Perception of student teachers towards the role of technology in education for sustainable development ” proceedings of International Seminar held at Periyar University

5. Priya (2007), “An analysis of web usage among teacher educators and student teachers” proceedings of International Seminar held at Periyar University

6. [Beagle 2000] Donald Beagle, “Web-based learning environments: do libraries matter,” College & Research Libraries, 61(4), July 2000.

7. [Brown and Duguid 2000] John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid, The social life of information, Harvard Business School Press, 2000.

8. [Iannuzzi 1998] Patricia Iannuzzi, “Faculty development and information literacy: establishing campus partnerships,” Reference Services Review, Fall / Winter 1998.

9. (Webber and Johnston 2000) Sheila Webber and Bill Johnston, “Conceptions of information literacy: new perspective and implications,” Journal of Information Science, 26(6), 2000.

 

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   1. ICT AWARENESS OF B.Ed TRAINEES

 

 

Mrs. V.H. Sasikala

Ph.d Research Scholar

Mother Theresa University

 

Introduction:

Education is a process of human enlightment and empowerment for the achievement of a better and higher quality of life.

 Teacher is the yardstick who measures the achievements and aspirations of the nations. He continually strive to maximize the effectiveness and efficiency of their instruction by identifying and comparing alternative method of teaching and learning.

ICT in Education is the foundation upon which a country develops. It is a dynamic force in the life of every individual influencing his physical, mental, emotional, social and ethical developments.

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Objectives of the study:

To assess the ICT awareness of B.Ed Trainees
To assess the Teaching skills of B.Ed Trainees 
To find out the relationship between ICT awareness and Teaching skills of B.Ed Trainees

3. Method & Procedure

Descriptive survey research is used in this study.

4. Sample

50 B.Ed students (35 girls & 15 boys ) constitute the sample for this study. 

5. Tools used

(1) The teaching skills tool (my.daemen.edu/teacher skills checklist.doc) and ICT awareness tool (constructed and standardized  by the investigator) are used by the investigator

 

 

6. Description of the Tool: ICT awareness tool comprises five diamensions is used to assess the ICT competency of B.Ed students and the teaching skills tool consist of 22 diamensions is used to assess the teaching competency of B.Ed students

 

 7. Statistical technique:

             Mean, Standard deviation, t-test and correlation are the statistical technique used in this study.  

 

8. Findings of the study 

1.  There is no significant difference between Male and Female B.Ed students in their teaching skills

        

2. There is no significant difference between Male and Female B.Ed students  in their ICT awareness 

      3.      There is low positive correlation between  ICT awareness and Teaching skills of      B.Ed students.

9. Implications of the study:

This study is helpful to

Establish the ICT based culture among the teacher trainees.
Cultivate the trainees’ enthusiasm for ICT to make their society into “informative society”.
ICT stimulates educators to start a revolution in the whole educational system.
ICT enhances the awareness among the trainees to increase their capab ility and independence to search for and acquire the knowledge they need in their teaching process.
Expose them to environments of positive world-wide competence which leads into quality-based attitudes in their future teaching process.

   

 

  

It describes the 10 simple ICT tools that can be utilized in Education. It can be helpful video for beginners who are about to use ICT / Social Media tools in Education.

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