The Probabilistic State of Computer in Secondary School Education: A Case Study of Oredo Local Government Area, Edo State

Abstract

Computer education around the globe has taken new dimension and countries that have been able to key into the developmental stride have succeeded to bridging the deficit of traditional classroom teaching in the late 80s and early 90s education. 21st century children have different educational mentality to that of 19th century children and this has been the advancement in technology has changed the narrative. However, there are serious setback in the manner developing countries teaches computer in schools. To a great extent, the quest to make the secondary school students use computer the same way as their counterpart around the globe has over the years surfer serious setback in Oredo Local Government Area. This paper examined and conducted a survey on the use of computer in Oredo Local Government Area Secondary School through structured questionnaires. From the survey, it was observed that the Secondary Schools in Oredo Local Government Area of Edo State are yet to comply with the 1987 initiative of the then Federal Government of Nigeria to make computer available in all school which in turn led to the National Computer Policy of 1998. As at today, the Secondary schools student are still being taught computer classes without having computer to demonstrate the nitty-gritty.