Attitudes of Technical Teacher Education Student Teachers at University on the Use of Information Communication Technology for Learning and Teaching
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2014-09
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The study provides an indication about the attitudes of female and male student-teachers on the use information
communication technologies in learning and teaching. Female learners’ lack of interest against the high interest shown by
their male counterparts in learning and teaching has implications on their performance. The introduction of ICT in learning
and teaching requires student-teachers as classroom instructors to be competent in using ICTs for a variety of activities in
order to impart those skills to younger learners. The study sought to find differences between female and male students in the
use of ICT and investigated students’ attitudes to assess whether access to computers, background, stereotype and
experiences influenced female and male participants in using ICT in teaching and learning. The objective of the study was to
discover attitudes of female and male students towards ICT. The study was also to discover differences in attitudes towards
ICT between female and male student teachers and to what extent these differences could be explained by students, lecturers
and student-teachers’ experience factors. Female and male students were exposed to the use of computers at university in
different education programs that included student teachers from art and design, clothing, textiles and fashion design and
computer study areas among others. The study did not reveal wide gender differences in computer attitudes between female
and male student teachers as it showed that both female and male students developed computer knowledge and confidence in
working with ICT although male students used ICT for experimentation while female students used them more for set
assignments. From the results it is recommended that female student teachers use computers more freely in their student
activities for the purpose of acquiring a variety of computer skills and for the male student teachers to focus on specific tasks
of learning and teaching when using computers.
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Information Communication Technology (ICT), Gender Differences, Block release program, Student-teacher education
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Dlodlo, M., 2014. Attitudes of Technical Teacher Education Student Teachers at University on the Use of Information Communication Technology for Learning and Teaching., pp.38–50.