ICT in Chemistry

 What is ict ?

Information and communication technologies (ICT) is defined as a diverse set of technological tools and resources used to transmit, store, create, share or exchange information.

WHY ICT IS IMPORTANT? 

Enhancing learning experiences and providing new sets of skills Reaching more students with Massive Open Online Courses(MOOCs) Facilitating the training of faculties Minimizing costs and saving time associated with information delivery and automating regular day-to-day tasks Improving the administration of institutions to enhance the quality and efficiency of service delivery.

ICT in Chemistry

 In chemistry education, ICT can provide solutions to many of the problems afflicting chemistry education and thus help enhance the quality of chemistry education in chemistry. Traditional classroom teaching, as we all know, is basically a talk- and- chalk method. ICT goings to add some new values in chemistry

Where ICT could be used in chemistry education?

There are several topics in chemistry which required computational technique to learn and use of ICT enhance learning capacity of learner as well as facilitator. The present article deals with the use of ICT in some of the topic of chemistry. We tried to overcome from routine chalk and talk method to understand the several topic viz. stereochemistry, IUPAC naming and other organic chemistry topics. All though chalk and talk method has gain attention of the students but it has been found that using ICT to teach such topic of chemistry helps teacher to overcome from class room difficulty like presenting 3 D structure of molecule with model. The objective is to reveal teachers' ICT experiences and views on ICT integration into teaching-learning process as well as uncover the perceived obstacles to the integration process. 

Tools of ICT in Chemistry

Some of them is freely available while some of them has commercial values. Drawing of molecule can be done by (Chemsketch) and (Marvin Sketch).

What is chemsketch. ?

ChemSketch is a molecular modeling program used to create and modify images of chemical structures. Also, there is a software that allows molecules and molecular models displayed in two and three dimensions, to understand the structure of chemical bonds and the nature of the functional groups.

Tutorial video link: 

https://youtu.be/Gjvd-QnRVv0

Conclusion :

ICT can provide solutions to many of the problems afflicting chemistry education and thus help enhance the quality of chemistry education in chemistry.