5 PHASES OF USING COMPUTER IN EDUCATION

• UNESCO – United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization

   

  Defines ICT’s as tools and processes for accessing, storing, manufacturing and exchanging information electronically.

   
• UNESCO

  United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization
• 1. Late 1970 – Early 1980

  
  

  Programming, Drill and Practice

  -      ADP – Automated Data Processing using Nokia MikroMikko

  -      Beginning of usage of computers

  -      Develops logic, math and language skill

  -      No deeper understanding, short memory retention
• 2. Late 1980 – Early 1990

  
  

  CBT – Computer Based Training with multimedia

  -      Advanced graphics and sound

  -      Golden Era of CD – ROM’s and multimedia computers

  -      It’s a challenge to update the content in CD – ROM’s
• 3. Late 1990

  
  

  IBT – Internet Based Training

  -      World Wide Web

  -      Lack of multimedia
• 4. Late 1990 – Early 2000

  
  

  E – learning

  -      Improvement made for IBT in the form of E-learning

  -      LMS – Learning Management System

  -      Requires social activities
• 5. Late 2000

   

  Social software + Free and open content

  -      Considered this stage as a breakthrough

  -      Social cognitivist theory and cultural history psychology

  -      Mikhail Bakhtin and Lev Vygotsky “ All higher (mental) functions originate as actual relations between human individuals”