STUDENTS' EXPERIENCE ON ICT: A CASE STUDY OF NTI POST-GRADUATE DIPLOMA IN EDUCATION,NIGER STATE STUDY CENTRE MINNA

Abstract

The study investigated the NTI/GDE Students knowledge of ICT resources in education, their level of exposure to such resources and the problems challenging them in the acquisition of ICT skills for effective integration in the teaching and learning process. Intact class of sixty eight students that enrolled for the 2018/2019 session in the Niger state study centre of 10 lecturers who did not have education background up to masters level,33 secondary school teachers did not attend teacher education programmes, 15 university graduates who aimed at getting teaching appointment and 10 civil servants who want to update their certificate were used for the study .A4 Point likert scale questionnaire of very great extent 4,VGE , great extent 3GE, Low extent LE,2 and very law extent VLE 1 ,were used for data collection for the study. Descriptive means was used to analyze the data and the result indicated that students of NTI/PGLE have to a large extend the knowledge of ICT resource in education, they were not fully exposed to the use of ICT resources and the highly ranked problems was lack of ICT facilities in their schools/study center. The study therefore recommended that the NTI/PGTE programs be revisited for purposeful and meaningful training to be given to the students to enable to embrace the new instructional delivery of ICT tools for integration in the teaching and learning process and for the achievements of the PGDE objectives of equipping students with the necessary pedagogical skills and managerial classroom skills to function as qualified and competent teachers.