Tendency of ICT Usage among Adolescent in Oredo Local Govenrment Primary Schools, Benin City, Edo State-Nigeria
Maxwell Scale Uwadia Osagie *
Department of Physical Sciences, Faculty of Science, Benson Idahosa University, P.M.B 1100, GRA, Benin City, Edo State, Nigeria.
Osamwonyi Glory
Department of Education, Faculty of Art and Education, School of Post Graduate Studies, Benson Idahosa University, P.M.B 1100, GRA, Benin City, Edo State, Nigeria.
Okoawo Bridget Obehi
Department of Education, Faculty of Art and Education, School of Post Graduate Studies, Benson Idahosa University, P.M.B 1100, GRA, Benin City, Edo State, Nigeria.
Ikediashi A. John
Department of Education, Faculty of Art and Education, School of Post Graduate Studies, Benson Idahosa University, P.M.B 1100, GRA, Benin City, Edo State, Nigeria.
Ekhator Joseph Osarenkhoe
Department of Education, Faculty of Art and Education, School of Post Graduate Studies, Benson Idahosa University, P.M.B 1100, GRA, Benin City, Edo State, Nigeria.
Agbontaen Abieyuwa Shirley
Department of Education, Faculty of Art and Education, School of Post Graduate Studies, Benson Idahosa University, P.M.B 1100, GRA, Benin City, Edo State, Nigeria.
Uruneden Herietta
Department of Education, Faculty of Art and Education, School of Post Graduate Studies, Benson Idahosa University, P.M.B 1100, GRA, Benin City, Edo State, Nigeria.
Odili Ify Rophina
Department of Education, Faculty of Art and Education, School of Post Graduate Studies, Benson Idahosa University, P.M.B 1100, GRA, Benin City, Edo State, Nigeria.
Uwadiae Monday Osamudiamen
Department of Education, Faculty of Art and Education, School of Post Graduate Studies, Benson Idahosa University, P.M.B 1100, GRA, Benin City, Edo State, Nigeria.
*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Abstract
The viability of a society depends largely on the learning outcome of its teenagers. Raising them can be challenging because modern society is embolden with information communication technology (ICT) that do not only isolate them from peers but create mental disorder in them. ICT is not an isolated entity rather an embodiment of deferent technologies that act as an entity to delivering and channeling information. To ascertain it tendency in primary school and its impact on adolescent, this paper reviewed the concept of ICT and carried out a survey on its usage among adolescent. The survey questionnaire was structured on five points scale and the feedbacks from hundred respondents were analyzed with Statistical package for social sciences (SPSS). From the findings, it was showed that the tendency of ICT by both private and government primary school is indeed poor and its impact on adolescent is on the downward trend. The study offered some recommendations including the need for government to carry out a holistic review of the primary schools curriculum so as to accommodate ICT usage.
Keywords: Adolescent, ICT, synchronous, ubiquity, technologies, entity, loneliness.