The document discusses developing ICT skills in student teachers to prepare them for 21st century teaching. It outlines skills needed by modern teachers like critical thinking, creativity, collaboration, and technology literacy. While equipping student teachers with ICT skills provides advantages like developing 21st century abilities and improving pedagogy, there are also disadvantages such as lack of infrastructure and the expense involved.
2. рIf we teach today as we taught
yesterday, we rob our children of
tomorrow. John Dewey
3. Skills that a 21st century
teacher should posses
Critical thinking
Creativity
Collaboration
Communication
Information literacy
Media literacy
Technology literacy
Flexibility
Leadership
Initiative
Productivity
Social skills
4. Technology literacy
Technology literacy is the ability of an individual, working
independently and with others, to responsibly, appropriately
and effectively use technology tools to access, manage,
integrate, evaluate, create and communicate information
6. Advantages
Enables student teachers to learn 21st-century skills and
develop their ICT capability and ICT literacy.
Improves student teachers pedagogy and andragogy
Prepares student teachers for an integrated work
environment dominated by ICT developments.
Enables student teachers to use ICT as a tool for lifelong
professional development.
7. Disadvantages
Lack of adequate infrastructure and technical support.
It is expensive.