Abstract
Technology education is one the programmes designed to provide technical knowledge and skills necessary for economic development in Nigeria. But technology education programme has a constraint to its advancement which this study investigated. The study adopted the survey research method for the design. The population of the study was 453 persons comprised of 379 students and 74 technical teachers from one Technical College and a University with technology education department in each of the 6 states of the South-South geo-political zone. A simple random sampling technique was used to obtain a sample size of 188 which comprised of 33 technical teachers and 155 students. A 5-item questionnaire was used as the instrument for the study. The questionnaire item was followed by a single response category based on a 5-point rating scale format of Very High Extent (VHE), High Extent (HE), Moderate Extent (ME), Low Extent (LE) and Very Low Extent (VLE). A test re-test method was adapted to test the reliability of the instrument to obtain a coefficient of 0.73. The data gathered was analyzed using mean and z-test analysis to answer the research question and hypothesis respectively. The finding revealed that digital illiteracy is a constraint to technology education advancement in Nigeria. Based on the findings, it was recommended that in order to enhance digital proficiency in technology education, government should adequately provide digital facilities in all technology education institutions in Nigeria.
Highlights
Digital facilities are not adequately made available in the technology education institutions in Nigeria. This inadequate availability of digital facilities has brought about digital illiteracy which in turn is a constraint to technology education advancement in the South-South region of Nigeria
According to Herold (2017), since the era of the digital revolution; digital illiteracy is a major clog behind the wheel of technology advancement in Nigeria, which is as a result of lack of digital facilities
Effort has been made to ascertain that digital illiteracy is a constraint to technology education advancement in Nigeria
Summary
Speaking technology is how people modify the natural world to solve problems. It is a body of knowledge and the systematic application of resources to produce outcomes in response to human needs and wants. Technology Education known as Technical Education is a field of study that is designed to help students explore, discovers, experience, analyze and apply technology (Wakefield, 2015). It provides hands on problem solving experiences, concerned with developing insights into technology, evolution, utilization and significance; as well as its social, cultural and global impacts. Teachers cover topics related to technology processes, concepts and knowledge
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