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1. Absence of Teacher

ICT has, no-doubt eliminated the limitations caused
by place and time as well as the hierarchical authority
of teacher in information transfer in the process of
religious education. Teachers and books are no longer
the sources of information as getting information got
electronic.
Therefore, the essential component of education-
Teacher lost value in teaching-learning process, which
is not less harmful. Books also lost value as the whole
process of instruction goes through digitized method
with the help of ICTs. But both books and teachers are
necessarily the essential components of education that
in any way cannot be undermined.
Taking the necessary presence of these components
into consideration, perhaps some argue that ICTs are
merely a delivery mechanism for teaching and
learning, while it is the foundational pedagogy that
matters (Clark; 1983). ICTs by their very nature are
tools that encourage and support independent learning.

2. Virtual Presence
Another drawback of ICT is that it lacks actual
presence of taught in the classroom while learning.
Since in the virtual education there is no complete
bodily presence and sensational experience, the
development of such aspects like internal motivation,
belief, internal experience, internal commitment and
action faces some shortcomings. People learning
through ICTs could not succeed to get such training as
they must get from religious education.