Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Utilization Among Science Teachers

Abstract

The use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) had caused changes in the way teachers and students live in educational institutions. The study assessed the utilization of ICT in secondary science classes. It made use of the descriptive research design. Data gathered from 130 science teachers in 17 secondary schools in three divisions of Ilocos Sur reveal that there are inadequate ICT tools in the schools for teaching purposes. The most common software owned by the respondents was the mobile device. The general office suites most commonly available were the word processing and spreadsheet. The respondents were not very much confident in the use of ICT tools and equipment. However, they had an extremely positive attitude on the use of ICT in teaching. Moreover, ICT applications were not much utilized by the respondents and ICT was not also much utilized in the teaching-learning process. The most common major obstacle in the use of ICT in teaching was the lack of digital resources in the school. The most felt training needs of the respondents was multimedia operations and advanced internet. Confidence in the use of ICT and possession of social networking accounts were the best predictors of the level of utilization of ICT in the teaching-learning process. Keywords-Information and Communication Technology, secondary science teachers, educational technology, Ilocos Sur.