CIC2601
Assignment 02
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Table of Contents
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1 The integration of ICT in South African Educational System
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The integration of ICT in South African Educational System
1.1 ICT plays a critical role in improving the teaching and learning, educators spend more time
on administration work in filling forms manually and submitting documents to the
departments. Thing such as SAAMS should be done online. We should not even be issuing
learners reports to parents we should be emailing them to parents with comments
underneath. The classroom environment should be improving learners issued with tablets
to study with and remove this issue of textbooks. Even if the is no formal structure of
internet leaners can submit Activity on the school portal braces on their subjects. The
University of South Africa is a perfect study in transforming our educational system.
1.2 The first one would be infrastructure with regards to network connection it is very
expensive, and government cannot cover the cost. The second one would be the lack of
teachers wiliness to transform and move to the integration of technology cause some
teacher are used to the manual way of doing thing and most are computer illiteracy which
cause a huge challenge for integration to take place. And they feel threaten by the young
up and coming teachers. In my school that I started working at the only people that uses
the school system is the admin only. The principal himself you will not find even a computer
or laptop on his desk. With regards to learners most learners are not willing to integrate
since most learners have never in their life touched a computer. Now they get to matric and
they are expected to use ICT this becomes a challenge to them. So, a lot of work needs to
be done to integrate this system.
1.3 Schools need to do a rollout of induction and educational programs towards the learners
and teachers. With regards to teaching learner from an early age how to use a laptop or a
computer even teacher who are already in the system. The other part is to hire a division
within the school of an IT team that will work daily with the teacher and learners in
administrating the system for maybe a year. the are many ways in dealing with the data that
is very expensive Vuma Tel and open save which are government entities that can assist
school in getting
1.4 • Government
• Decision-makers
• ICT support
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