Role of ICT in Teacher Education

ICTs are making dynamic changes in society. They are influencing all aspects of life. The influences are felt more and more at schools. Because ICTs provide both students and teachers with more opportunities in adapting learning and teaching to individual needs, society is, forcing schools aptly respond to this technical innovation. Therefore, this review article discusses the roles of ICTs, the promises, limitations. Today our classroom processes are mostly based on chalk and talk, thus there is an immediate need for orienting the teachers in ICT skills and program. The teachers should be trained in the use of modern tools. Technology based learning can be viewed as an innovative approach for delivering. Well designed, learner centered, interactive and facilitated learning environment to anyone are anyplace. ICT is a scientific, technological and engineering discipline and management technique used in handling information, its application and association with social, economic and cultural matters (UNESCO, 2002). ICT stands for Information and Communication Technologies. ICT is a part of our lives for the last few decades affecting our society as well as individual life. ICT which is now broadly used in educational world, Teacher, Student, administrator and every people related to education are popularly used ICT. Teacher use ICT for making teaching learning process easy and interesting. A competent teacher has several skills and techniques for providing successful teaching. So development and increase of skills and competencies of teacher required knowledge of ICT and Science & Technology. Modern science and technological societies education demands more knowledge of teacher regarding ICT and skills to use ICT in teaching –learning process. This paper discussed about the role of ICT in teacher education.