I acquired most of my ICT skills while completing online studies in education. I did a formal course after at the intermediate level and progressed much faster than the students who did IT as a subject in school. I have come to realize that when it comes to ICT if there is no integration into a meaningful context, I have a much harder time even understanding what is being discussed. I can therefore see the value of Dr. Mitra's experiment. Although formal education is important, it sometimes can limit how much learning is done. When a system is bounded by curriculum and exams, learning is confined and the opportunity to discover new ideas can be lost. In addition, integrating skill learning into a meaningful context made acquisition of the skill almost automatic.
This thought occured during the reading: students do not really need teachers to learn ICT skills, so if ICT education is limited to skills training teachers are not really needed. If teachers do not embrace ICT integration they are contributing to the idea of teachers becoming obsolete.
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