AWARENESS AND UTILIZATION OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY IN LEARNING AMONG SENIOR SECONDARY BIOLOGY STUDENTS IN KWARA STATE, NIGERIA
AYENI Olusegun1, ABIMBOLA Isaac Olakanmi2, BELLO Ganiyu3, SULAIMAN Musa Mohammed4 and BELLO Zakariyau Adebayo51,2,3,4Department of Science Education, University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Nigeria
5Department Integrated Science, Kwara State College of Education Ilorin
Abstract
The place of ICT in the technological development of any nation cannot be overemphasized. ICT has played a prominent role in the teaching and learning process over time. This study investigated senior Secondary School Biology students' level of awareness and utilization of ICT in Ilorin-south, Nigeria. The study was descriptive of survey type in nature. The instrument used was researchers' designed questionnaire which was validated by three ICT experts. The population for the study was all senior school Biology students in Ilorin South, Nigeria out of which 300 respondents randomly selected were used for the study. Five research questions and three hypotheses were tested and results shows that most of the respondents either own or have access to ICT, are aware of educational role of ICTs, used ICTs for leisure purpose and sees poor electricity supply as the major constraint to the use of ICTs in learning. Inferential and differential statistic was used to analyze the data collected for this study. It was therefore recommended that there is the need to raise extensive awareness for students to focus on educational use of ICT than less educative uses and that the government should also provide stable electricity to facilitate effective use of ICTs in teaching and learning.
Keywords: awareness, utilization, ICTs, Biology students.