Information and communication technology (ICT) can complement, enrich and transform education for the better.

As the lead United Nations Organization for education, UNESCO guides international efforts to help countries understand the role such technology can play to accelerate progress toward Sustainable Development Goal 4 (link is external) (SDG4), a vision captured in the Qingdao Declaration.

UNESCO shares knowledge about the many ways technology can facilitate universal access to education, bridge learning divides, support the development of teachers, enhance the quality and relevance of learning, strengthen inclusion, and improve education administration and governance.

The Organization scans the world for evidence of successful ICT in education practices – whether in low-resource primary schools,  universities in high-income countries, or vocational centres – to formulate policy guidance.

Due to the growing number of ‘tablet classes’ at schools and with an increasing number of students owning a smartphone even in lower grades, the relevance of smartphone and tablet apps to be used in teaching increases.

Examples

Socrative: Socrative is a cloud-based student response system developed in 2010 by Boston-based graduate school students. It allows teachers to create simple quizzes that students can take quickly on laptops – or, more often, via classroom tablet computers or their own smartphones. 

Showbie: Showbie is a free educational app for teachers and students that makes creating and completing assignments, providing assessments, and storing grades easy. 

Achieve 3000: Over a decade of research proves that our solutions are effective in a variety of instructional settings. Whether you are designing a new blended learning program or updating your intensive intervention classroom, Achieve3000 can be the core of your instructional roadmap to build your School of the Future® …today.

Goodnotes: GoodNotes lets you take beautiful handwritten notes and annotate PDF documents. The handwritten notes are searchable and are created using a pioneering vector ink engine. Thanks to iCloud sync, your documents in GoodNotes will synchronize between your iPad and iPhone automatically.

Edmodo: Edmodo is a web page and app that is use of teachers and students both to communicate and download some files to work.

Ipad: The ipad helps to use all the apps mentioned before and it is also used for searching.

Computers: The computers help to investigate information and elaborate some things that the iPad doesn’t.

Canon: The canon is used to project videos, fotos etc. In a form of a big screen.

Bibliography 

Anonimo. (2018). ICT in education. 1/11/18, de Unesco Sitio web: https://en.unesco.org/themes/ict-education