What is ICT ?

''' What Is Information and Communication Technology (ICT)? '''

Information and Communication Technology, or known as ICT is a term used to describe a range of technologies that are used for gathering, storing, retrieving, processing, analyzing, and transmitting information. ICT includes all kind of communication device or application, encompassing: radio, television, cellular phones, computer and network hardware and software. ICT are often spokes in a particular context, such as ICT’s in education, health care, or libraries.

''' What is Information Technology (IT)? '''

Information technology (IT) comprises the knowledge, skills and understanding needed to employ information and communications technologies appropriately, securely and fruitfully in learning, employment and everyday life. IT is to ICT as literacy is to books, journals or screen displays. Not all IT learning will involve the use of computers. These are some examples that involve IT:

· Sort real objects into different categories as an introduction to databases;

· Read a piece of printed text in order to identify the key words that might characterise it and help to retrieve it electronically if necessary.

· Consider the use of font sizes and print effects in newspapers and magazines as part of their work with word processors

· Give each other instructions as a way of teaching about precision and control.