GLOBALIZATION, ICT AND EDUCATION

Development and innovation of computer technologies have transformed the way education is structured, organized, and delivered. Information and Communication technology has advanced in ways that could not be imagined even a decade back. Changes in technology have facilitated dramatic shifts in communication making it easier to connect people in unprecedented ways and require that today's students have the knowledge, skills, and dispositions to engage responsibly and effectively in the increasingly globalized context. The education system is now witnessing a paradigm shift from the traditional chalk-and-talk teaching methodology to digitizing the pedagogical approach through technical devices. Adopting and adapting educational technologies associated with computers and the internet for use with instruction is often transforming not only how we teach, affording new ways to address old problems but also turning attention to some of the basic issues in teaching focusing the educators on the pedagogy itself, its design and its efficacy. Education Technology provides such teaching-learning situations, which brings the best practices or means of instruction that affect on learning positively. Their domains of knowledge cover three main areas concerning techno-pedagogy, which are content, pedagogy, and technology respectively. The subject matter to be taught is referred to as content. Technology includes both modern and everyday technologies such as computers, the internet, and digital video, as well as overhead projectors, blackboards, and books.