Technology Reduce Illeterate

Do you know that there are many people in this world still illeterate? There are still 775 million iletarate adults of hich almost three-quarters of them are found in only ten countries including Indonesia. So how this problem can be solve? Thanks to this technology era because the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) can decrease the number of illiterate people in this world.

ICT help people to access the literacy education. Technology like television, mobile phone, and radio give people access to study about literacy. Television and mobile phone combine pictures, sounds and texts so it can stimulate the human sense and make the learning process more effective. The radio can be use for educational purpose. For example, people can read a text and from the radio, people can hear the sound how to pronounce the words and know the means of it. The video contain pictures, texts and sounds so people can improve the reading comprehension. Technology make study about literacy easier because while people learn, it will give them a feedback. It will make a literacy lesson more true-to-life and interesting.

ICT can create a literacy-conducive environment. For literacy can become widespread in the society, written information must available to our daily life. ICT can bring the written information to our daily life. For example, a text and an image screened in the television so we can know the information. Short message service can stimulate people to improving their skill in reading and writing. Desktop publishing technology facilitate the production and distribution of local newspaper and can enhance information sharing.

There are need some improvement to realize the ICT for literacy education. The infrastructure need to facilitate the technology like television and mobile phone. In Indonesia, some area still didn’t get the electricity supply. Television and mobile phone can’t use in that area. Then the pathway to reach a remote area. To distribute a newspaper or a book, it very hard if the pathway didn’t exist. The other is the network signal. The network signal must discover every place so the television, internet, and mobile phone can be used. Before realize the literacy education based ICT, the infrastructure must be ready. Infrastructure is an important thing because it’s the core of the technology.

Illeterate problem can be solve by ICT. It provide the access of studying literacy and create a literacy-conductive environtment. To realize that, we must build the infrastructure first because without it technology are nothing. Technologies provide the way to improve the literacy skill and reduce the number of people who illeterate.

Reference:

Restyandito, Alan H. S. Chan, and Fransisca E. Lestariningsih. A Review on the Use of Technology to Develop Literacy.

UNESCO ICT in Education Programme. Using ICT to Develop Literacy.

http://www.eldis.org/vfile/upload/1/document/0803/ID31168.pdf