ICT (Information and Communication technology) has brought revolution in the education field. In past days educators using the traditional blackboards with chalk for writing and displaying notice with noticeboards are becoming outdated. Educators are deploying ICT to improve the quality of the instructions. There has also been growing trend across the globe in the use of ICT to enhance whole class teaching and learning. There is considerable research evidence that students are more engaged, show increased interest and are highly motivated when their learning is integrated by ICT. Teaching with ICT technology has become essential thing for an educator in the technological age. A lot of difficult subject matter can be taught better and in more detail with ICT teaching aids. ICT incorporate audio-visual techniques that results in increasing the interest and memory of students. An educator must utilize the ICT successfully to create the best platform for learning and teaching. Every school, college and university across globe is implementing ICT into their classroom. ICT opens up a world of opportunities for teachers to be innovative in their teaching and in student learning. It is very important that educators should be well trained to utilize the new opportunities provided by ICT to them. Some of ICT teaching aids are Interactive Whiteboards, digital Visualisers, response systems, digital signage system, projectors, educational content, classroom management software, and mind mapping software.
Today, the learning system is getting high gains by implementing ICT. Interactive Whiteboards have become an integral part of learning environment and is replacing traditional whiteboards. An educator writes with finger or pen on interactive whiteboard. Teachers are using ICT based educational content with audio and video into their lessons. An audio visual content gives the learners a better learning environment as they can visually watch the actual phenomena and processes. Teachers can write on their content with Interactive Whiteboards and save it in computer files that can’t be done through traditional boards. Visualiser is a kind of camera that can display document , 2D or 3D teaching samples on display devices like projection screen, plasma screens etc providing detailed view.Even the calm and isolated student can respond spontaneously to teacher question using ICT based student response systems. Teacher can do formative and summative assessment of student. Projector is a popular ICT device used in the schools, colleges and the universities for projecting the information stored in computer as a large image on projection screen or on the wall such as multimedia, power point files, animation, motion video and other computer contents. Time has come to introduce ICT into the classroom for effective learning and teaching.
