EMMANUEL DZOMUN AMUA
Department of Computer Science,
College of Education, Katsina-Ala.
e-mail: [email protected]
BENJAMIN TAVERSHIMA AKO
Department of Integrated Science,
College of Education, Katsina-Ala.
GODWIN KER
Department of Economics,
College of Education, Katsina-Ala.
e-mail: [email protected]
ABSTRACT
ICT is an acronym for Information and Communication Technology. It is concerned with the storage, retrieval, transmission and dissemination of digital information in the form of hardware and software. ICT is adopted and included in the national curriculum, so as bring about holistic education. The present status and place of ICT in Science Education is discussed and the paper acknowledges the fact that Nigeria as a developing nation, still lags behind in implementing ICT. The benefits of an ICT based education are also discussed. The challenges of ICT in Science Education are discussed, among which is that ICT facilities are expensive and unaffordable to many individuals, private and some government establishments. Ways of improving ICT in Science Education are discussed and the paper recommends that government should initiate ways of fostering the literacy skills of Science teachers, by sponsoring them to workshops and short term programmes. The paper concludes that Nigerian government should stop paying lip-service to ICT but rather make frantic efforts to develop and sustain ICT policy in the nation’s educational programmmes.