Monday, 28 April 2014
ICT Barriers in South African Education
Our country is facing a vast issue when comes to ICT (Information and Communication Technology), that mean there are barriers or challenges that contribute to inadequate of ICT skills. Most students whom grown up not knowing computers mostly are those from rural areas due to the following factors; lack of subject teachers trained to integrate computers into different learning areas, lack of computer literacy among teachers and the absence of a properly developed curriculum for teaching computer skills.
Other key factors inhibiting schools from acquiring computers are:
-An absence of electricity
-Lack of funding
-Insufficient building space
-Lack of available and trained staff
-Poor security
Despite the lack of resources, teachers at schools generally express positive feeling about the value of computers at schools, the reason about why schools must use computers is to help prepare students for tertiary level as well as future because it awkward to those students who start to use PC at tertiary,they found it difficult to adapt the usage of it. Our country must emphasize the integration of ICT with education so that teaching and learning process must emerge especially in rural areas and that might also emerge most rurals infrastructure.
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That's true hey!! because most of the people who does not have good background or basic knowledge about ICT are the ones from rural areas due to the reason you have stated above, yet i have a believe that we as teachers to be, we will make a different in our local community since we are trained about the vital basics of a computer, see with the knowledge that we get at TEC we will make South Africa to be a better country in terms of ICT.
ReplyDeleteIndeed -- funny thing is many teachers use mobile phones daily, or the internet at home or have laptops but might not necessarily make the jump to use it for education in their classroom either? Do you perhaps know the reason for this?
ReplyDeleteThat is so true my dear,i just remembered my self last year when all the lectures told us that all work must be typed ,and i went like ohw my gosh! how am i going to do that because i didn't even know how to type or use a computer at all.so it is wise indeed to teach children about computer before they go to tertiary
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