Year: 2016 | Month: August | Volume 7 | Issue 2
Attitude of Teachers towards the use of Technology in Teaching
Abstract:
Due to the extensive use of technology in every walk of life, the educational institutes are also supposed to prepare their students to be technology literate (Kalanada, 2005). It is due to this reason the use of technology in schools in general and in classrooms, in particular, has been increasing day by day. To reap full benefits from the use of technology in education the policy planners must give due consideration to all the necessary conditions and environments, directly or indirectly, related to the technology use. Many researchers in the field of education have explore the various factors that influence the technology use in education in one way or the other. The most prominent factors amongst the factors that affect the successful use of computers in the classroom is the teachers’ attitudes towards computers. The present study was, therefore, undertaken to examine the attitude of teachers towards use of technology in teaching. For the present research a sample of 100 school teachers was drawn from 10 schools of Nurpur and Jawali Blocks of Distt Kangra by using convenient sampling technique. A self developed questionnaire was used by the researcher for the purpose of data collection. The study found that about 25% of the teachers had only favourable attitude towards use of technology in teaching. No significant difference was found between attitude of teachers towards use of technology in teaching in relation to their gender and teaching experience.
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