ASSESMENT OF ICT INTERGRATION INTO INSTRUCTION IN KENYA

Abstract

ICT is transforming various aspects of human activity . A new global economy powered by technology, fuelled by information, and driven by knowledge has been created. Technology has changed the way people live, communicate, work, and play. They have brought about highly important transformations in agriculture, medicine, engineering and other fields . In Kenya, there have been calls for education reform to improve the quality of education to adequately prepare students in the work place . The ministry of education heeded the call and developed the Sessional paper no 1. of 2005 which appreciates and recognises the critical role that ICT plays in helping education deliver its mandate. The availability of ICT facilities over the past few years have increased substantially in most learning institutions in Kenya . Teacher training colleges have been great beneficiaries of donations and investments of ICT equipment. It is estimated that teacher training colleges have an average of 60 computers each with Internet connectivity. Most of the trainers in these colleges have been inducted on ICT integration in instructio