Exploring the Changes in Teaching Strategies Enabled by Information and Communication Technology

The Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in now a day plays a very strategic role in thetransforming phase of education. Thus government also taking many initiatives and tried to integrateICT to teaching learning process like the introduction of ICT@School Scheme. But the problem lies inits effective use in classroom. Is teacher being competent enough in use of ICT in classroom, whatare the some of the changes teachers are making when they used ICT tools with their students inthe classroom and how strategies are changing, what contributes to the change, and what is thechange in classroom dynamics and traditional time structures? These were the few issues whichaddressed in the present study. For this purpose, a qualitative approach with an interview study wasadopted for the study. Further, it delimited to Cuttack district of Odisha and ten secondary schoolsand total thirty teachers, three from each school was selected as its sample by using purposivesampling method. The investigator makes classroom observation, extensive field notes and interviewwith the respondents for collection of data. The collected data was analyzed by thematic descriptionrelated to foregoing issues with specific reference to the four key themes: the changing role of theteacher, classroom dynamics, teacher predictions of ICT in school and the concept of the classroom.The findings of the study revealed that the ICT in the classroom influenced the process of learningand in order to integrate ICT effectively, teachers are adopting different teaching strategies. Furtherit has also been revealed that they need drill for the power shift in the classroom because oftenstudents had more knowledge of ICT than them. The findings also revealed that the dynamic of theclassroom was also changing due to ICT. Finally, the teachers needed time to learn about thetechnology and to understand how to integrate ICT into the curriculum.