Fostering critical, creative and collaborative skills. A. Critical skills B. Content creation C....

1. III. Learning in Digital Age, Developing Critical, Creative and Collaborative Skills There are many compelling reasons to use ICT in our classrooms, from motivating students and enhancing the learning experience to facilitating planning and the organisational elements of education. All of these are significant but the focus of this chapter is broader and deals with the complex relationship between education, changes in society and children’s lives. It is inspired by doctoral research that asked: ‘Is learning changing in the Digital Age?’ where I looked at how society and children’s lives were changing outside of school and how education was responding to this.

2. IV. Communicating with and through ICT We are starting to see more integration of different technologies such as mobile phones and computers, and it is difficult to predict how these changes will offer opportunities in schools to develop learning and teaching. ICT can be used as a medium of communication where it transmits and exchanges text, pictures and sound through the computer (such as e-mail or video conferencing) or where the technology is used to enhance aspects of presentation such as displaying text on screen (or to be printed out) where you are communicating with ICT.

3. ICT In English as a Media in Teaching English “Teaching Primary with ICT”

3.1. Definition of ICT Today’s era is era of Information Technology (IT). To face the challenges in this era, one must have broad knowledge of IT. Because IT has influenced all aspects of human life in many ways with the promise of new and improved ways of thinking, living and working. Education is not an exception. Any person will become proficient in any field if the knowledge of that field is given from its childhood. Thus there is need to implement Information and Communication Technology (ICT) technique in primary schools

4. V. Why is communicating with and through ICT important? • Interactivity: how does interacting with information or getting feedback help? • Provisionality: how does being able to make changes in information make communication more effective? • Capacity and range: how does access across distances or using different forms of communication (such as text, voice, a picture or live video) • Speed and automatic functions: what can be done routinely or more quickly with ICT so that we can use communication as part of the learning process