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- Title
A Study of the Attitude of Teachers towards use of ICT in Teaching of Physics at Secondary Level.
- Authors
Khurshid, Khalid; Farooq Mashhadi, Ahmad
- Abstract
With new technologies developing so rapidly, there was an inevitable impact upon all aspects of teaching and learning. Information and communication technology (ICT) can make an enormous difference in the way lessons are presented, while online resources are available with the potential to enhance the learning experiences. Indeed, the availability of information at the press of a button may well change the whole way knowledge is viewed, with increasingly less emphasis on what a student knows and more on what they can do with what is available. In all of this, the attitudes of teachers and learners are important. These may well determine the extent to which the new technologies are employed and how they are employed. So, the main aim of this study is to explore the perceptions and attitudes of teachers and their students towards the use of ICT in teaching of physics at secondary level in Pakistan. The government in Pakistan has set out policies to encourage the use of ICT at school level. In order to collect data, a questionnaire and interview schedule was developed. This questionnaire was used with 138 Physics teachers of secondary schools registered with the Board of Intermediate and secondary Education (BISE) Multan, Pakistan. The data from the questionnaire was analysed to offer an overview of the perceptions of teachers with the responses of sub-groups in the population being compared using chi-square as a contingency test. The Interview schedule was used collect general attitude of science teachers towards the use of ICT during their teaching and what kind of difficulties they faced. The findings of the study make it clear that there was an enthusiastic and positive view about the use of ICT in all aspects of teaching and learning. The students wanted more but the teachers tended to see ICT in terms of a computer and a data projector, replacing the traditional lecture-style teaching approach in Pakistan. The results of the study also revealed that, if the new technologies are to play a major part in the teaching of physics, the facilities to do this must be available in every teaching area (not computer rooms) and this is linked to the very real problem of lack of a consistent supply of electricity in Pakistan.
- Subjects
INFORMATION &; communication technologies; EDUCATIONAL technology; TEACHER attitudes; PHYSICS education (Secondary); EDUCATIONAL innovations
- Publication
Pakistan Journal of Social Sciences (PJSS), 2014, Vol 34, Issue 2, p653
- ISSN
2074-2061
- Publication type
Article