ICT Learning Experience

Information and Communications Technology (ICT) enabled me as a student to adopt a more critical framework in consuming and creating media products. It emphasized self-directed and outcomes-based learning in which I initiated and managed my own learning through the activities that equipped me with professional and real-world skills, helping me become a more active and responsible member of the society. ICT has become a space for expression and transformation. It helped me engage with the lessons in a more critical manner. ICT makes students readiness for our future path in our profession. This makes bold and innovative that could benefit for the individuals. Changes may happen but because of it we learned and mold our selves. It makes works easier and it won’t be time-consuming.

Importance of Information and Communications Technology (ICT)

Information and Communications Technology (ICT) has an important role in the world since we are now in the information age era. With ICT, the company can make the business easier to happen with the client, supplier and the distributor. It is also very important in our daily lives. The lack of appropriate information at the right time will result in low productivity, low-quality research works, and a waste of time to pursue information and even to do research which actually others had done or in other countries. Nowadays ICT cannot be separated with our daily needs.

ICT has a great impact on our daily lives. For example, we can read our local newspaper using the online newspaper. Another example is we still can get connected with our family, relatives, or colleagues even if we are abroad by using the electronic mail, yahoo messenger, call conference, or video conference.

Digital computer and networking have changed our economy concept to the economy with no boundary in time and space because of ICT. It brings a lot of advantages for economic development enabling millions of transactions to happen in an easy and fast way.

ICT is one of the economic development pillars to gain a national competitive advantage. It can improve the quality of human life because it can be used as a learning and education media, the mass communication media in promoting and campaigning practical and important issues, such as the health and social area. It provides wider knowledge and can help in gaining and accessing information.

ICT has become an integral part of everyday life for many people. It increases its importance in people’s lives and it is expected that this trend will continue, to the extent that ICT literacy will become a functional requirement for people’s work, social, and personal lives.

The use of ICT in education adds value in teaching and learning, by enhancing the effectiveness of learning, or by adding a dimension to learning that was not previously available. ICT may also be a significant motivational factor in students’ learning and can support students’ engagement with collaborative learning.

Information and Communications Technology (ICT) is basically our society’s efforts to teach its current and emerging citizens valuable knowledge and skills around computing and communications devices, software that operates them, applications that run on them and systems that are built with them.

As a matter of fact, we are living in a constantly evolving digital world. ICT has an impact on nearly every aspect of our lives – from working to socializing, learning to playing. The digital age has transformed the way young people communicate, network, seek help, access information and learn. We must recognize that young people are now an online population and access is through a variety of means such as computers, TV and mobile phones.

How can ICT be used to effect Social Change in my chosen professional track?

Being a student of ABM we have lots of performance task that uses PowerPoint Presentation as a tool for our report. In the past, students usually use manila paper or cartolinas for visual aid in presenting but nowadays since we are in the modern generation we use PowerPoint for visual aids and by this, it makes efficiency and effectively. ICT plays a bigger role here because it discusses how things work in PowerPoint. How a presentation can be delivered as an effective presentation.

In accounting, it is our nature of making Income Statement, Balance Sheet, Journalizing and many more. Accountants used notebooks or journal notebook for encoding but now Excel helps accountants to make their work easier. Excel is the most common tool for making Statements and also it is useful for pay slips. It helps more in organizing the accounts and it helps in solving easily.

Also practicing on making letters is very helpful in applying for jobs or giving letters for an invitation. We used papers and put them on envelops and send it to mail senders. This may take how many days for the receiver to receive the letter but, by using Word and type the content of the letter it won’t take time to give those letter using the mail merge.

Reference:
Information Communication Technology | School of Information Science. (n.d.). Retrieved March 07, 2017, from https://ci.uky.edu/sis/ict
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