TEACHING AND LEARNING WITH TECHNOLOGY: A CRITICAL REVIEW

Information communication technology will assist teachers to respond to the global need to replace traditional teaching methods with technology-based teaching-learning tools and facilities. ICT is considered as one of the core elements in transforming the country into a better future development. ICTs provide an array of powerful tools that may help in transforming the present isolated, teacher-centered, and text-bound classrooms into rich, student-focused interactive knowledge environments. India will have largest young population in the world followed by China and USA. In addition, UK has vast opportunity to collaborate in India with education sector. The new technologies challenge traditional conceptions both of teaching and learning and by reconfiguring how teachers and learners gain access to knowledge have the potential to transform teaching and learning processes. In the present scenario of digital era, the use of ICT in the classroom has become more important to give students the opportunity to learn at a greater pace and to keep up with the outside the world with technology. In spite of tremendous benefits of ICT, there are many obstacles regarding the proper use of information and communication technologies. The aim of this study to find out the relevance of information and communication technology, barriers of ICT in teacher perspective and student's perspectives on teaching-learning process. Therefore, it becomes important to study the challenges and issues related to the use of ICT, so that these obstacles can be overcome and learning process can be more effective.