Changes

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.  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.   

If so many things are impacted by ICT, it is important to understand how these work, and how they should be used [[What should students know about safe use of technology|safely]] and ethically.  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.