Personal Experiences with ICT within Primary Education
My personal experiences with ICT within primary education are very limited. During the Foundation Phase of education, I found that ICT was rarely used during day-to-day teaching and learning. However, ICT was slowly introduced as you progressed through primary education with the introduction of ICT lessons and interactive white boards.
Although ICT was a relatively new introduction to my education, it is much more common today. ICT can be used in everyday teaching situations with the use of tablets and computers within lessons.
As Marsh et al. (2005, p5) states; children are “growing up in a digital world and develop a wide range of skills, knowledge and understanding of this world from birth”. This demonstrates that their knowledge of ICT will be much greater than ours was at their age.
Ref:
Marsh, J et al. (2005) Digital beginnings; Young children’s
use of popular culture, media and new technologies. University of Sheffield:
Literacy Research Centre.
