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PAPER ID:IJIM/V.I(XI)/18-23/3
AUTHOR: Ms Pooja Mann
TITLE : ATTITUDE OF SECONDARY SCHOOL TEACHERS TOWARDS THE USE OF INFORMATION COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY IN EDUCATION
ABSTRACT: Information and Communication technologies (ICT) has emerged as one of the most important aspect of human life and it has affected every aspect of school working including administration, timetable, lesson delivery, project work, evaluation, examination system etc. ICT have made teaching- learning process more relevant for the learner and connected to real life. Teacher is an effective and dominating factor among the ones contributing to educational improvements. The teacher effectiveness depends mainly on the teachers attitude, characteristics and the classroom phenomena such as environment and climate, organization and management. As a result, the teachers are motivated, inspired and endured to develop better curriculum, textbooks and teaching aids. But, all the efforts are meaningless unless teachers are not having the positive attitude towards educational technology. The teaching- learning process has been greatly influenced by rapid advances in information and communication technology (ICT) . Integration of this ICT in classroom helps to create an environment for students activities that lead to meaningful and sustainable learning experiences. Our findings indicated that the recent research on qualitative improvement of learning mediated through ICT is more or less explicitly considering possibilities of technology how to facilitates social interaction between teacher and student and as well as among students globally. In this perspective, ICT is a meditational tool incorporated with in learning environment with authentic goals for both students and teacher. Therefore, it can be considered that Information and Communication Technology Mediated collaborative Learning (ICML)is one of the most promising innovative pedagogical practices at present to build a classroom culture supportive of active knowledge construction that can transform individual learning to the group level mediated by ICT. In present study attitude of secondary school teachers of Karnal district towards the use of information communication technology in education was studied.
KEYWORDS: Information communication Technology, Educational Improvements,