Awareness Towards Information And Communication Technology (Ict) Among Higher Secondary School Teachers

Abstract

In the present study an attempt has been made to investigate whether awareness towards Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is imparted among Higher Secondary School teachers by conducting research on data collected from different higher secondary schools in Tamil Nadu. During Covid pandemic, every school teachers working in Private, Government, management schools in one way or other way are forced to use the ICTs and practice online mode of delivery for teaching learning process in spite of their locality, availability of interrupted Net facilities etc. That is the motivational factor for conducting this investigation. The sample included 300 teachers (inclusive of 181 male and 119 female) randomly selected from different higher secondary schools in Tamil Nadu. The investigator himself developed a customized scale to measure the awareness on ICTs such as ETV, CD-ROM, Multimedia, Interne, EDUSAT in Arts and Science Education. The results of the presents study cleared indicate that both male and female teachers in higher secondary schools have the same level of awareness in ICTs. This study, aims to provide various possibilities to know the extent of the ICT facilities available in various educational institutions and to what extent they permit faculty members to utilize ICT for classroom Learning.