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{{Color-box|6|Welcome to the ICT Portal|Historically, human beings have used different ways of organizing and  presenting information, and for communication. Language, script, print, mass media such as radio and television have been important information and communication technologies (ICT).  Whenever a new ICT is introduced, we see significant changes not only to education and knowledge processes, but also to larger socio-cultural, political and economic structures and processes..  What makes the current ICT different is their digital nature.  With information creation, access, processing and sharing becoming quicker and simpler, society is now being shaped these processes, so much so that, the term Information Society is used to describe society today.  

{{Color-box|6|Welcome to the ICT Portal|Historically, human beings have used different ways of organizing and  presenting information, and for communication. Language, script, print, mass media such as radio and television have been important information and communication technologies (ICT).  Whenever a new ICT is introduced, we see significant changes not only to education and knowledge processes, but also to larger socio-cultural, political and economic structures and processes..  What makes the current ICT different is their digital nature.  With information creation, access, processing and sharing becoming quicker and simpler, society is now being shaped these processes, so much so that, the term Information Society is used to describe society today.  

Development of digital literacy skills is required for all, to navigate this ‘information society’.  Teachers, student teachers and teacher educators need to be able to use ICTs for their professional development, through self learning, peer learning, in digital resources creation and in teaching-learning. They must develop a critical understanding of the larger positive and negative implications of the design and adoption of ICTs in society. This portal has resources for ICT learning.}}

Development of digital literacy skills is required for all, to navigate this ‘information society’.  Teachers, student teachers and teacher educators need to be able to use ICTs for their professional development, through self learning, peer learning, in digital resources creation and in teaching-learning. They must develop a critical understanding of the larger positive and negative implications of the design and adoption of ICTs in society. This portal has resources for ICT learning.}}

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| style="width: 50%;" |{{Color-box|1|Create a Smart Classroom from your laptop|A Smart Classroom can be created from your laptop with a set of easily accessible hardware and software tools. The set up would need a laptop, a graphics writing/drawing tablet to connect your laptop and a projector for large display.

Turtle Blocks, is an activity with a Logo-inspired graphical "turtle" that draws colorful art based on snap-together visual programming elements.  We can use this to develop visualiation, logical reasoning and algorithmic sense in students by performing various operations with the Turtle.   More information can be found [https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/Turtle_Art/Help here]. A 5-week course on Turtle Art can be found [http://karnatakaeducation.org.in/KOER/en/index.php/Turtle_Art here].

This hardware setup can be used in any software available in Ubuntu. You can also install a free and open-source interactive whiteboard software called [http://openboard.ch/ OpenBoard] that is compatible with any projector and a graphics tablet device. }}

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Click [[Ict ps android apps|here]] to see a list of popular android mobile apps.

Click [[Ict ps android apps|here]] to see a list of popular android mobile apps.

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