Explain the role of computers in the education field.
Students use computers for simple word processing that is, to type reports and other documents and to print out the results. This application allows students to revise and edit easily. A computer makes it much easier to redraft a sentence and produce a new printout when compared with producing a handwritten copy.
Encyclopedias and other reference works are available on CDROMs, which can be searched by the students using the computer in their classrooms or school libraries.
Computer-aided instruction (CAI). Interactive programs provide practice in such basic skills as spelling, math computation, and word recognition.
The Internet and World Wide Web is a source of information resource, that students may want to access, using their computer at school or home.
Computers are used in running school and college administrations, during the admission procedures, storing of official arid student records. They are also used in syllabus planning and decision-making, controlling.
Computers are helpful in directing aptitude tests and achievement tests, at the time of entrance exams. They also process records of salaries, examinations, schemes of examination, printing of papers and question papers, evaluation of answer sheets, mark sheets, and certificates.
