Equipping Educational Administrators and Supervisors at the Metro Education Office with skills in the use of computers (eBook)

James Sunney Quaicoe (Autor)

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2013 | 1. Auflage
17 Seiten
GRIN Verlag
978-3-656-34534-3 (ISBN)

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Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject Pedagogy - Adult Education, University of Cape Coast (Centre for Continuing Education), language: English, abstract: The impact of technology on the educational systems across nations is enormous. Dlodlo and Sithole (2001), acknowledged that ICT is the fastest growing technology in this dispensation and that its influence pervade all spheres of human performance. Man's activities have become more knowledge driven - using emerging Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) such as computers, internet, digital equipment, mobile phones, chat engines and many other digital and multimedia communication technologies as the driving force in this direction. In a practical illustration, Molosi (2001) observed that the internet used only four years to reach fifty million users, while Television took thirteen years to attain the same number of viewers. This goes to illustrate the speed at which technology is advancing. This trend has brought to the fore the need for integration of ICT in the education. Ghana in her 2007 New Education Reform (NER) made ICT a subject to be taught in school for the first time and became examinable in Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE). The success of the study of ICT in schools is linked the ability of Educational Administrators and Supervisors offer the technology based leadership. Consequently, supports Supervisors and Educational Administrators need to be equip with some level of ICT stills in order undertake any effective monitoring,. In effect, , if Educational administrators or supervisors lack the basic knowledge on ICTs or computers they may not be effective in accomplishing their duties. In the light of the above, it has become expedient for the Educational Administrators and Circuit Supervisors at the Metro Education Office, Takoradi in Ghana to be equipped with skills in the use Computers and their associated basic applications.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.1.2013
• Verlagsort: München
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
• Schlagworte: administrators • Education • Educational • equipping • Metro • Office • Supervisors
• ISBN-10: 3-656-34534-1 / 3656345341
• ISBN-13: 978-3-656-34534-3 / 9783656345343