TEACHING-LEARNING WITH ICT AT PRIMARY LEVEL

The emergence of information and communication technology has ushered in a new era. It has brought about a revolution in the field of teaching-learning process. ICT is affecting both the teaching style and the learning style, whereby a student becomes the explorer of information and an independent knowledge worker. The National Curriculum Framework for School Education (2002) addresses at length the question of integration of information and communication technology (ICT) into schooling and acknowledges the pedagogical rationale behind this integration and brings to the fore its manifold implications. The National Curriculum Framework (2005) suggested that information and communication technologies can enable activity-based and collaborative processes. Computer literacy is the need of the hour. It has the capability of multiplying the human intellect beyond part conceptions and has tremendous implications for education. Computers can be used as books or workbooks, for word-processing and for programming of graphics among young children (pre-school 2nd grade students) (Brown, 1996). Number of educational software has been developed for providing rich educational materials to the students. With the advent of ICT, the traditional talk and chalk approach, the blackboard, the charts have given way to slides, OHP, multimedia presentation, graphics, computers, animation, video-clippings, T.V., radio broadcasts, audio-video tapes etc, to be used for educational purposes. IT is also complemented by tele-education via satellites.