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Academic Communication for Advanced Secondary Schools Utilising ICT in academic communication

Exercise 4�2
1. Reflect what learning would be like without ICT in academic communication.
2. How can personalized learning improve your education progress and foster
your personal growth?

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Figure 4�1: Students using internet resources
Important observations about ICT in academic communication

ICT has made academic materials available in more accessible formats to millions of
people who can use them whenever convenient. Students can use ICT to improve their
skills such as by using worksheets and rubrics available through ICT for self-assessment.
Through ICT, students can choose materials of interest when researching specific subjects.
For this reason, ICT is embraced by countries and educational institutions all over the
world to create, access, share and use information.
The rapid advancement of ICT and its storage capacities help to manage academic
information. The information obtained from digital resources could be more updated and
helpful than traditional physical resources. ICT also provides various ways of searching
information. For example, digital resources provide hypertexts to allow branching to
related topics, which is more convenient.

Activity 4�2
Practise using different search engines to access different learning materials i.e.,
e-books, journal article, research report for a topic of your choice.

Digital/online resources of information
These resources are a product of the advancement of science and technology. They refer
to all the documents or materials and other forms of information available on the internet.

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