Sensitizing Nigerian Secondary School Teachers on the Available Web-Based Tools Suitable for Instructional Delivery in Christian Religious Studies

Abstract

Teaching with ICT has been reported yielding positive results by the way of improving academic performance nearly in all subjects’ area. While many secondary school teachers are already making use of ICT to improve their teaching; many still lack awareness about the available ICT web based tools suitable for instructional delivery. This is particularly true of the secondary school Christian religious studies (CRS) teachers in Nigeria. In the light of this, the paper examined ICT web based tools for instructional delivery in CRS. A total of 500 secondary schools CRS teachers selected from 100 secondary schools in Lagos, Ogun and Oyo States in Nigeria represent the sample for the study. The results demonstrated that awareness of the CRS teachers is high on the suitability of email and Facebook than other web based tools. Some participants (60%) have attempted using email to teach CRS while none of the participants have attempted using web based tools like drop box, newsgroup, RSS feeds, wiki, flikr and knowledge system. The most common obstruction to the use of the web based tools for CRS instructional delivery is electricity failure rate. The study recommends based on its findings that government should consider finding alternative to electricity failure rate as the study has indicated this as the most prominent factor limiting their awareness of the available web based tools suitable for teaching CRS. There is need to create more awareness on those tools the CRS teachers indicated having limited awareness of. This may inform of organising a workshop where the entire participants will be connected with the Internet. Through this, they will be exposed to those tools and practically see how they can be used.