Student Record System

Student Record System

Introduction

The purpose of this study is to expand the boundaries of our knowledge by exploring some relevant facts and figures relating to Student Record System. Information technology refers to the hardware and software that are used to store, retrieve, and manipulate information. Information technologies (IT) have become embedded in so many systems, processes, spaces, and objects since the 1980s that entire societies are routinely referred to as information societies. In the broadest sense, information technologies refer to the means through which information is configured, stored, and used and might include early symbolic systems, alphabets, inscription, writing, and so on (Hobart, 2008).

During the twentieth century, information and technology have become inextricably tied together, latterly through the convergence of computing and telecommunications, enabling the development and diffusion of new commodities and modes of production, provision, distribution, and consumption. The range, nature, and geographical scope of information technologies has changed radically even over the first decade of the twenty-first century, especially in terms of networks and new mobilities, and has arguably challenged some of the basic tenets and boundaries of production and consumption. Reflecting this, the term now commonly includes communication to become information and communication technologies (ICTs) plus the distinction between media and ICTs has become harder to maintain, with theoretical and methodological implications for understanding the roles of communication and information technologies in mediating production and consumption (Vernez, 2008). In this paper, the author will analyse the use of information technology in education system.

Discussion

Historical and Intellectual Context

The emergence and character of information technologies over the course of the twentieth century are the outcome of complex technological, economic, social, political, and cultural contexts and processes. In technological terms, the fairly rapid development of personal computers, cable, satellite and digital television, office workstations, computer networks, and so on, are innovations as significant in scope and scale as the rise of agriculture and the machine technologies of the Industrial Revolution. Across disciplines, most changes have been understood under the rubric of the information society—characterized by informational service work and employment, a global economy, a reorganization of time-space, the saturation of everyday life by media—a term that is related in various different ways to processes of post industrialization, post modernization, and globalization (Wyatt, 2009). IT is thought to be implicated in a transition from industrial to post-industrial society, organized to disorganized capitalism, and mass production and consumption to flexible specialization and individualized consumption in service economies (Turkle, 2011).

The intellectual contexts for understanding IT and consumer culture in the context of an information society are varied. Economic approaches have favoured measuring increases in informational goods and services and their relative worth to the overall national economy. Sociological approaches have often drawn on Daniel Bell's canonical analysis of post industrialism and in particular the new occupations and consumption patterns implied by such a shift. Geographers, and those interested in the socio-spatial aspects of production and consumption, have examined the role of IT in enabling “networked” spaces to emerge, allowing for ...