Information and Communication Technology as a Panacea to Educational Development in Delta State

Abstract

Education is a necessity and is as old as creation. However, not very serious taught has been given to it’s development. The impact it has made to human is little compare to huge amount of resources that goes to it every year. Different methods have been employed but limited to class, teacher, and blackboard. It is expedient to know that ICT surpasses all the methods so far such that it is not classroom bounded even without human, teacher and classroom. The problems that manual or conventional education could not handle completely such as limited class room, variance knowledge of teachers, government factors e.t.c is taken care of by information and communication technology. With this, Information and communication technology had addressed learning system of employment of staff, schools, manual teaching aids etc that may not do better. This work will offer opportunity to us Deltan to see the other side of learning.  In recognition of its importance, information and communication technology has become the most preferred medium of learning. The modern educationist has discovered it as quick response tool to education training and the bases of research, teaching, knowledge dissemination and transfer, using computer aided teaching tools such as software, hardware as an approach to learning which must be adopted into the curriculum. This has been felt in sciences, sports, engineering, government, businesses etc. The research tends to encourage the use of Information and communication technology for educational development in Delta State as an issue to embrace.

Keywords: manual or conventional education, teacher, backboard, information and communication technology (ICT), Panacea,