Information
and Communication Technology is an essential component of school, intellectual
diffusion and research programmes assessment. Nkanu and Usang (2007) remarked
that these trends make it possible for teachers to break away from professional
isolation with Information and Communication Technology,
they can easily
connect with other teachers outside their immediate environment with sources of
teaching materials. Before now, the observed, learners were dependent on
teachers and librarians for information but now, availability of Information
and Communication Technology facilities in schools is helping them to redefine
the role of teachers and librarians thus enabling them to focus on analyzing
information and sharpening their critical thinking skills.
Information and Communication Technology
as a technological-based instruction methodology facilitates the achievement of
content and objectives of the curriculum since it enables students to access
accurate information easily unlike the traditional methods require strenuous
co-ordination. Nkanu and Usang (2007) observed that the educational system has
undergone major structural changes. That is from pedagogical methodology to the
current phase of more sophisticated, but user friendly technology-based
instructional methodology. The complexity resulting from the enormous
instruction co-ordination mechanism is reduced or eliminated with the new
system (Information and Communication Technology and E-Learning).
Information and Communication Technology
is also important in that it has enabled learners to see things and master them
faster than as it was in the olden years.
Information and Communication Technology
also help learners in the acquisition of four basic language skills of
listening, speaking, reading and writing. Acquisition of these four basic
language skills is very important because when learners acquire them they can
easily master the concepts in the curriculum of all levels of education faster.
To that end, Okereka (2007) emphatically stressed that, Information and
Communication Technology increases reading skills. Computer had made the
teaching and learning of writing (essay) can now be better enhanced by using
computer programmes that corrects errors and provide feedback. Through Information
and Communication Technology learners can make use of the most up-to-date texts
from the conventional library. This will help the learners to get access to
relevant texts which will help the learners to get access to relevant text
which will help them in their lesson.
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