Role of ICT (Information & Communication Technology) in 21st Century’s Teacher Education

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 has become an inevitable part of our lives for the last few decades, affecting our society as well as individual life. ICT has tremendously affected and revolutionized the educational world. The teachers, students, administrators and other persons related to education are directly influenced by ICT. Teachers use ICT for making teaching learning process easy and interesting. The knowledge of ICT also required for pre-service teacher during their training program, because this integrated technological knowledge helps a prospective teacher to know the world of technology in a better way by which it can be applied in future for the betterment of the students. Now adays ICT’s are transforming schools and classrooms a new look by bringing in new curriculum based on real world problems, projects, providing tools for enhancing learning, providing teachers and students more facilities and opportunities for feedback. ICT also helps teachers, students and parents come together. Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation (CCE) helps students as well as teachers to use more technology for making teaching, learning more attractive for the betterment of our future generation. Teachers must know the use of ICT in their subject areas to help the learners for learning more effectively. So, the knowledge of ICT is very much essential for both the prospective teachers as well as in-service teachers also. This will help teachers to know integration of technology with classroom teaching. This paper discusses the role of ICT in 21st Century’s teacher education. Citation: Khursheed Ahmad Khanday (2019). Role of ICT (Information & Communication Technology) in 21 Century’s Teacher Education. International Journal of Advanced Multidisciplinary Scientific Research (IJAMSR ) ISSN:2581-4281, 2 (1), January, 2019, # Art.1112, pp 10-14 International Journal of Advanced Multidisciplinary Scientific Research (IJAMSR) ISSN:2581-4281 Volume 2, Issue 1, January, 2019 IJAMSR 2 (1) www.ijamsr.com CrossRef: https://doi.org/10.31426/ijamsr.2019.2.1.1112 IJAMSR 2(1) www.ijamsr.com January 2019 11 International Journal of Advanced Multidisciplinary Scientific Research (IJAMSR) ISSN:2581-4281