Use of ICT in Classroom: An Analysis of Teachers' and Students' Perception on ICT Tools

Abstract

The ICT integrated teaching forcefully underpinning in our education system as a pedagogical intervention. The teachers and students are trying to habituate with incorporating their teaching learning activities. In this situation, this study has to explore the situation of ICT tools use by teachers and students for ICT integrated teaching in higher education classroom. For this purpose, I adopted the social constructivist approach of learning for supporting to view the reality. Based on this theoretical approach, I used the qualitative research design where applied the phenomenology method of inquiry. The three methods focus group discussion, in-depth interview and personal introspection have used to collect the in-depth information from the informants. The major finding is that the social media tools like Face book, Gmail, Blogs were not popular in teaching. The teachers and students are used the hardware related tools like laptop, desktop computer, multimedia projector, cell phone and software related tools like office program, Face book, twitter, blog. The highly prefer tools have laptop/ desktop computer, multimedia projector, cell phone and software tools like internet, email, office program and related apps like Moodle. The ICT tools are inevitable phenomena for effective delivery of knowledge and skills in higher education teaching to meet the global needs of education.