Impact of Ict on Education in Kenya

Modern technology has penetrated every aspect of our lives and made great impacts on our daily activities, especially in the area of education. The continuous infusion of technology in education has become an unchangeable tendency. Given the increased use of technology in education, much research has been done on the value of technology in education. However, none of the studies have answered all of the questions that are essential to determining whether continuous infusion of new technologies in education can improve the quality of education. Since a clear answer to this question is vital to help educational organizations to make decisions on how much

Today, we have advantaged schools and disadvantaged schools. Due to so many biases in the educational sector today, some schools are well equipped with the right resources and state-of-the-art infrastructure. Usually, these learning institutions are located in the rich neighborhoods or are privately owned by individuals. The opposite is the case for schools that are located outside this neighborhood. They are branded as poor schools, and they are left with poor infrastructure with less resources and sub-standard education because there are not enough teachers. Technology in these kinds of schools is too obsolete for students to benefit from it. The future of education depends on the responses or support from the government. The government needs to step in and improve the current state of our schools and equip them to increase the quality of education. Government needs to step up the need for teachers and encourage teachers in order to solve the problem of attrition rate in the public schools. The future of education in the United States of America is bright, but this entire problem, especially the attrition rate, will become a stumbling block to the growth of education. The budget allocated to the department of education should be increased enough for the school district to be able to counter the problem of attritional rate between teachers. The government should ensure all technology and infrastructures are up to date. The teacher-to-student ratio has to be brought down to a very reasonable figure by employing more teachers and building new classes. Technology is rapidly increasing and changing so e –learning should be incorporated into school curriculum to ensure future education is secured in the area of online studies. E-learning should be introduced into school curriculum in such a way that students will be able

The common definition of public education in the U.S. is a system implemented to promise “equal education opportunities no matter race, religion or ability” (An American Imperative: Public Education). While all public schools are diverse in their own core values and principles, there is one underlying principle that makes a public school great - being supportive of their students. Furthermore, by following this principle, public education is paving the road to success for students. Although public education serves an irreplaceable role in society, it is not a right that is granted to everyone across the world. For instance, out of the 128 million school-aged children in Africa, an estimated amount of “17 million will never attend school,” (Fleet).

South Africa’s secondary schooling system, in particular of the education in the sciences and mathematics, was recently ranked among the lowest in the 2013 World Economic Forum Global Information Technology Report (Bilbao-Osorio). Education, of the sciences in particular, has declined in many countries within Sub-Saharan Africa. This is because teacher salaries have not kept up with the high inflation rates in these countries, leaving the best teachers to search for better jobs or emigrate. This then results in less prepared students and by the time they reach grade twelve, the failure rate has increased to 50 percent. The reason for the high failure rate is most African students are underprepared due to educationally disadvantaged backgrounds from not receiving proper education starting at a younger age

One topic that will continue to bring contribution to education is technology inside the classroom. Elementary school all the way up to college and even further up to Doctorates programs will continue to face the rapid changes in society. To stay on-top and updated with the world, there is no option but to convert with society to technology. One side will continue to say technology is beneficial to everyone that has something to do with education. Now, it is not uncommon to still have others say, “technology has its pros, but the good doesn’t not out weigh the bad in this situation”. To look at each side and say they are right or wrong is undoubtable but, the education system must find the balance and the between of paper mixed with some technology.

ICT has become one of the most common resources in daily life. ICT has transformed the way people communicate and learn in almost every aspect of modern life for education (Higgins, 2007). Many countries have recognised ICT as a core part of education, along with writing and reading (Amin, 2008). The term ICT has had misconceptions that ICT refers to computers only, in circumstance this is incorrect. According to Pelgrum and Law (2003) during the 1980’s the word computers was given the title of IT (information technology), this demonstrated a shift of focus from computing technology to the ability to store and recover data. The term ICT was then introduced in 1992 (Pelgrum and Law, 2003).

Nearly 20 years ago when the World Wide Web was released, many people in society had no idea what type of advances were in store for the technological world. Endless opportunities became available worldwide in every avenue of approach, one of those being education. Education has blossomed in the light of technology and will only continue to do so for many generations to come. Although it can be argued that technology is negatively effecting the education system, more innovative ways of learning are becoming available and society has no choice but to conform to these advances.

Despite what some scholars may argue, I believe that Africa already possesses the know-how it needs to advance and ICTs, while useful is many ways, do not bring about meaningful economic improvements in the lives of the

The purpose of this review is to assess the use and effect of technology in the K-12 school setting. Although billions of dollars are spend annually by the government, there is still a great deal of uncertainty about the ability of technology to improve classroom teaching and learning.

When doing the research I was surprised to learn that the United States and Kenya were in close relation. I was even more surprised that they had the main similarity of their education system yet so many differences beyond that. It was hard for me to understand that Kenya was similar to the United States but yet was ranked so low in the education world. After doing my research I see the reasons why. Education is hard for wealthy countries and even harder for countries in poverty. Money, space, resource, and teachers are a huge factor in determining the succession of the education world. It would be hard for me to teach in Kenya due to the wealthy vs poor issues. I see students as humans I don’t look at them and assess their economic standings. However, I am truly surprised and impressed but how much growth Kenya has. They have grown so much and changed their education world. Most importantly, people in Kenya are trying. They may not have the best education system but they are trying to change every

The United Nations’ Knowledge Platform declared that more than 33 million of the 57 million primary school aged children who aren’t educated are in Sub-Saharan Africa. This is a major issue since the children are the ones to carry out the future of the elders who left it behind. Children pick up what the old leave to maintain the rate of success. We are here to form a blueprint of goals to help children in need like what other famous African role models did like Graca Machel.

Illiteracy rates in West Africa are the highest in the world (Dakar). In the United States the ability to read with competence, or even receiving education to do so, is something that’s often taken for granted. We often forget that this privilege is not universally shared. This is especially true in West Africa. Communities there lack the resources and structured society to provide citizens with opportunities to increase their literacy. What the current education is like in west africa, causes potential solutions, is it working.

While education unlocks the door to development, increasingly it is information technologies that can unlock the door to education. (Wims and Lawler, 2007). There are many definitions for ICT and the most elaborate version by (Blurton, 1999) defined ICT as the: “… diverse set of technological tools and resources used to communicate, and to create, disseminate, store, and manage information. These technologies include computers, the Internet, broadcasting technologies (radio and television), and telephony”. Information and Communication Technologies are a networked system comprising data processing and storage and retrieval of information (Herselman & Britton, 2002).

Over several years, technology plays a vital role in our society, countries and the world. The technology has been changing our behavior and lifestyle in every aspect. In the past, people received news from reading the newspaper once a day so what was going on yesterday is in today’s newspaper but nowadays all events are immediately delivered to everybody with the latest news, what is happening in the world right now, by the internet. With regard to the benefits of technology, this literature review will focus on the approaches in helping education system in term of how to improve and enhance educational quality in developing countries in South-East Asia as well as in the sense of reducing the gap between country schools and city schools.

On a daily basis, both businesses and individuals rely on technology. It cannot be denied that technology has become part of our everyday life. As individuals, we all depend on technology, either for education, health purposes, transportation, communication, romantic relationships, and/or business growth . It is impossible to explore how each advancement in technology has impacted our lives as well as how it will impact the future, but we can briefly explore the major advancements. Technology impacts the environment, people individually, and the society as a whole.