THE 14 CHARACTERISTICS OF THE MOST IMPORTANT TICS - ECONOMÍA - 2025

The characteristics of the most representative ICTs are their ability to improve intellectual skills, compatibility with other teaching aids, they can be used from anywhere, they focus on the objectives, reduced storage space and others that are explained below.

Information and Communication Technologies, popularly known as ICT, are a reflection of the changes that society is facing today. Through tools, such as computers, we evolve and get involved in these changes.

Currently, there is a confrontation of opinions between teachers and professors who have many years of experience and those who are currently beginning their careers.

Use ICT in the classroom or continue with the traditional textbook? That is the question. And for this reason, we must not miss the opportunity that today offers us, to continue learning and informing ourselves about what can be improved in the teacher's work in the classroom and with the students.

In this article, through various studies and research, we are going to define what role ICTs have in education and we will analyze fourteen characteristics with which they cover the needs that society poses to them.

ICTs in education

Technological education is an area introduced in the study of education that focuses its analysis on the human being and its relationship with the artificial world. A new vision of the world that tries to respond to problems from the point of view of technology, giving solutions and proposing answers.

It is in the educational context when the community is positioned in the perspective that technology is a way of thinking and changing reality, in a more or less correct way. Therefore, if we bet that technological education intervenes in our own culture, we can achieve that all this favors the well-being of the community.

In short, if you use technological education as a teaching-learning methodology, it is possible to give way to a full integration between theory and practice.

In this way, the possibility of a greater understanding of reality is given, since the union of theory and practice is the main function of this technological revolution in education.

Characteristics of ICT applied to education

From the first moment we talk about ICT we must keep in mind what they are and what their characteristics are, because once you know their usefulness they will be very beneficial to use them in any teaching-learning context.

To talk about ICT as the tools that help to teach, it is necessary to mention fourteen of its main characteristics, since they are benefits for its use in the classrooms of this new way of teaching that the 21st century brings with it:

1- They are used from anywhere

If there is something that must be highlighted as a priority for ICT, it is the possibility of maintaining continuous and direct contact with the students. The advantage that the student can connect to teaching from anywhere in the world, with the appropriate means for it, facilitates learning, making it attractive.

For example, when vacation periods begin, normally the child tends to disconnect during the time he is not going to the classroom. This disconnection, only subject to some exercise or list of tasks that must be completed, gives way to confusion and a longer period of adaptation when returning.

If the student continues to be connected through online platforms, blogs or email, among others; the teacher or the professor can send these exercises in a more leisurely way and the student will be able to receive answers to their doubts in a faster way while practicing.

2- Union of culture, science and technology

ICTs are the union of beliefs, customs and all those habits that society has adopted as routine.

On the one hand, talking about culture means talking about the daily routine of society, about the benefits that technology brings to the entire community.

On the other hand, it encompasses science, as it is also responsible for giving answers to the human being about what happens in the world. It is the curiosity to learn that leads man to carry out scientific research to respond to his concerns, producing scientific knowledge.

And finally, the technique is in charge of responding to the need for transformation that man requires to meet his needs. This is the process that is carried out to, once analyzed from the scientific field, create the necessary mechanism to alleviate the need and that, later, will have been analyzed from a theoretical perspective, such as the creation of services.

For this reason, it is an activity characterized as creative that requires innovations that have not been created previously.

3- It is a mobilizing teaching

Teaching through ICT gives the possibility that the student can move in different contexts and different realities. In this way, a quality teaching is chosen in which the student can interact with the world and can face different situations.

For example, before subjects such as geography, the student will be able to contemplate images and videos of geographical features that they have never seen before. In this way, visualizing the content, making it more practical, gives it the motivation it needs.

4- It is based on other scientific aspects

ICTs applied to education are enriched by other scientific aspects, as is the case of pedagogical sciences, through innovations in teaching-learning methodologies; of learning psychology, showing special attention to the stimulus-response; of sociology, anthropology and philosophy.

5- It focuses on the objectives

Teaching through ICT is based on keeping the objectives in mind at all times. Reaching the proposed goals is essential and, therefore, we are faced with a flexible work methodology.

For example, there are often situations in ordinary classrooms in which teachers, due to the need for the entire group to comply with a time plan, move quickly, leaving behind students who do not keep up.

Through the use of ICT, teaching is individualized, giving the student the possibility to advance and complete the levels once they have acquired the knowledge, regardless of the pace of their peers. Well, there is the possibility that you can repeat the activities or receive adapted exercises.

6- It is an excellent communication channel

Another advantage of ICT is the promotion of communication. The use of new technologies favors the communication that the teaching-learning process needs.

For example, there is the possibility that the teacher can maintain daily and rapid contact with the family. In addition to also answering questions that students raise when they have left the classroom.

7- It is changeable

As time goes by, the world changes and new technologies do too. For this reason, it adapts to changes in the context itself and in education, based on the sciences that support them.

8- Possibility of interacting

New technologies allow the student to interact with the world; especially with the teacher and with their own peers.

Therefore, it is not simply a review and understanding of the messages or symbols that are sent. ICTs give the possibility of using auditory and audiovisual resources to favor the attractiveness and ease in which the student acquires knowledge.

9- Use different channels

The use of different channels of representation will give the possibility of faster learning through expression and communication using cognitive, motor and affective development.

For example, the possibility of obtaining the same information through reading, videos, music and images; They complement the traditional reading and images of the classic textbooks, since it gives the possibility of reinforcing the information through other channels.

10- Enhance intellectual abilities

ICTs develop the intellectual abilities of children, betting on a fun and dynamic training. For this reason, the psychology of learning through the interaction between the stimulus and the response works with the creation of levels that the student will be able to acquire, as they learn.

For example, before a grammar exercise, the student will be able to solve exercises where he receives scores and will go up in level. The novel "Gamification" will involve the child to keep him in the game while learning.

11- It is a communication channel

They are a communication channel because they are also feasible to convey feelings, opinions and ideas to the world. In addition to keeping the information intact, since it is recorded through writing and the audiovisual channel.

For example, there is the possibility of using ICT so that the student can give opinions on tasks that are proposed. These will be recorded and can be observed by other classmates, in addition to the teacher being able to use this information in class or keep it as privacy data.

12- Reduced storage space

ICTs have the possibility that all storage remains online, in this way the occupied space is immaterial. Therefore, it makes it easier to be moved from one place to another, since it does not have to be moved heavily to any place.

For example, through the internet connection, the student will be able to access the video that has been seen in the classroom and will be able to carry out the proposed activity by sending it by email.

13- Compatibility

It is compatible with other teaching aids traditionally used in the classroom, such as the use of blackboards.

Electronic whiteboards are the most innovative material in school in the 21st century, since it mixes all the elements that a tool should contain in the classroom, without forgetting the traditional, it also includes technological advances.

14- Feedback

New technologies give the possibility of feedback between students and teachers, in this way, from anywhere the student can receive answers to their doubts and grades on their tasks, quickly, without having to go to the classroom for it.

For example, before an objective test, multiple choice, that is carried out as a self-evaluation, students can give an answer and obtain the qualification of it at the moment. In addition, you can also obtain information about this note and send the teacher the question that you consider necessary to ask at that moment.

Conclusions

Using new technologies in the classroom constitutes a list of benefits for students that, as we can see, are numerous.

Continuing with the training away from the ordinary classrooms is, without a doubt, a personal benefit, for the teacher, as a group, for the students, since they can make learning a fun and playful activity in which everyone can participate and better results are obtained.

We are talking about a mobilizing, light teaching, adapted to all students, complete, disruptive, shared and fast; Well, its characteristics are not rare.

The student can, from home, continue learning using tools that, until now, have been fun and far from school, such as the computer or television, among many others.

In short, it is about continuing to learn and progress in training. Adapting it to the students and adapting, as teachers, to the new times.

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