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Look around you - can you make a list of things that have digital technologies involved in them?  Yes, that is right.  Starting from the computer in your school, television, movies, videos and other materials for subject learning mobile communication, Aadhar card, land records, bank accounts, pension accounts and so many more things, ICT have become integrated into society in many ways.     

Look around you - can you make a list of things that have digital technologies involved in them?  Yes, that is right.  Starting from the computer in your school, television, movies, videos and other materials for subject learning mobile communication, Aadhar card, land records, bank accounts, pension accounts and so many more things, ICT have become integrated into society in many ways.     

ICT can create information in so many different ways - maps, audio, video, text, numeric data.  How we are able to generate information means more and more possibilities of knowledge creation and sharing. ICT have brought together people, made it possible to learn in different ways.  How we learn and what is needed to be learnt have become different. For example, we no longer need to learn about a withdrawal slip, we need to know how to use the ATM.  Your teacher can now take a video of a class in your school and share it.  There is a great convergence of many technologies that is happening, a mobile is approaching the computer, the internet taking over.   

ICT can create information in so many different ways - maps, audio, video, text, numeric data.  How we are able to generate information means more and more possibilities of knowledge creation and sharing.   made it possible to learn in different ways.  How we learn and what is needed to be learnt have become different. For example, we no longer need to learn about a withdrawal slip, we need to know how to use the ATM.  Your teacher can now take a video of a class in your school and share it.  There is a great convergence of many technologies that is happening, a mobile is approaching the computer, the internet taking over. 

The most important thing about ICT today is the internet.  The internet has changed the way we think of communicating.  Talking to a friend through whatsapp or telegram chats, emailing or making a video call are just some of the ways in which the internet has changed the way we interact with each other in society.   

If so many things are impacted by ICT, it is important to understand how these work, and how they should be used [[What_students_need_to_know_about_ethics_of_technology|ethically and safely]].  Technology should be treated like a common resource where everyone can access it, interact with it, benefit from it and contribute to it.  It should be used such that more and more people can get access in society should be treated like a public information good.

If so many things are impacted by ICT, it is important to understand how these work, and how they should be used [[What_students_need_to_know_about_ethics_of_technology|ethically and safely]].  Technology should be treated like a common resource where everyone can access it, interact with it, benefit from it and contribute to it.  It should be used such that more and more people can get access in society should be treated like a public information good.