ICT is a general term that refers to the technology used to collect, edit, get information in various forms (SER, 1977dalam Nurdin Ibrahim).
There are five perspectives that can be seen in the role of ICT in the role of instructional media (Clark, 1996 in Ebersole, 2000), namely:
1) Media as technology,
2) The media as a tool or a tutor or a teacher,
3) The media as an agent of socialization,
4) the Media as a motivator for learning, dams
5) Media as a mental tool for thinking and solving problems.
A. Information And Communication Technology (ICT) As a Media Communications To Enhance Education Quality
In general, the use of ICT in education is described sebaai follows:
1. ICT as learning objects, mostly organized in special courses. What is learned depends on the shape of education and student level. This education prepares students to use ICT in education, skills of the future and in social life.
2. ICT as “tools (tool)”, which is used as a tool, such as making assignments, collecting data, and documentation and conduct research. Generally, ICT is used in solving problems independently.
3. ICT as a medium of learning, where teachers can teach and students can learn.
The results Kurniawati et al (2005) showed that in general the opinions of teachers and students about the benefits of ICT education in particular net, among others:
1. Facilitate teachers and students in finding alternative sources of learning,
2. For students to clarify material that has been submitted by teachers, as well as the image is animated also interesting,
3. Menanfaatkan can practice test questions with competence,
4. How to learn more efficiently,
5. Insights increases,
6. Relieve in making the example problems,
7. Knowing and following the development of info-material and other info related to the field of study,
8. Helping students learn the material individually other than in school,
9. Helping students The benefits of ICT literacy ICT especially the Internet / education-net for the professional development of teachers is to increase knowledge, share resources among your colleagues / sedepartemen,. Cooperate with the teacher of his time abroad, the opportunity to publish / announce information directly, set the communicationregularly, participate in forums with colleagues both locally and nationally and internationally
Benefits as a source of material that is able to access lesson plans and a new methodology, as raw material and so is suitable for all areas of learning, inform a variety of sources. Encouraging interest of teachers / tutors to improve students’ motivation to learn if more focused.
Benefits to students are:
1) encourage students to learn on their own quickly, thus increasing the knowledge, learning berinteraktivitas and develop capabilities in the field of research.
2) to enrich the student in improving communication with other students and increase sensitivity to the problems that exist throughout the world.
Based on the benefits of ICT on teachers, students as well as the source material it is seen that with the use of ICT as a medium of education to improve teacher-quality good-quality education, students and teaching materials.
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