Abstract.1. Introduction.2. The role of ICT in education. Positive impact of ICT on education. Negative impact of ICT on education.3. 5 Areas where ICTs can contribute to education: Expanding access Promoting efficiency Improving the quality of learning Enhancing the quality of teaching Improving management systems4. 5 Stages of Embedding ICT Familiarisation Utilisation Integration Reorientation Evolution5. Impact of ICT On the curriculum On teaching/learning process On teachers role On educational management On assessment/evaluation

6. ICT and learning modalities: meeting student needs7. ICT and issues of access and equity8. ICT and the English classroom.9. Some tools of ICT and how to use them.

1. The role of ICT in education. Positive impact of ICT on education. Ensures life long learning.Life long learning can be ensured by E-education.

Also enables distance learning.i.e. a teacher teaching his students through the use of ICT even though geographically dispersed.

We can access teaching materials and experts from all over the world.We can consult to many experts by video conferencing.

It has the ability to perform impossible experiments by using simulations.Some of the impossible experiments in the field of medicine, engineering and industry can be performed easily with the help of ICT. Possibility for students to have individual learning. Man power problem and human problems can be avoided by conducting online examinations. The curriculum, information about text books, reference books and references are available using ICT. Negative impact of ICT on education. There are large costs involved. Students, and sometimes teachers, can get hooked on the technology aspect rather than subject content. A childs imagination power decreases i.e. the ability to imagine vanishes.