Factors affecting teachers use of information and communication technology

The use of ICT tools in a classroom, makes things easy and can solve problems that appear in the class. It can be useful not only for teachers but also for the students.

         In the last twenty years, investigations had been made in order to see how much of the population has access to computers, like the research by Albrini in 2006 or the one by Bauer and Kenton in 2005 to study about technology integration in schools.

             The main problem appears to be that teachers does not want to use ICT, yet not for lack of interest but for a lack of technical support like NCATE reported in 1997, study that showed teachers did not used them because they did not know how or where to get help  when somenting went wrong.


            Teacher's training programs often focu more on basic literacy skills ans less on the integrated use of ICT. It is time to complement with effective training programs and motivate teachers to upgrade and update their skills, abilities and knowledge.

             In  1996 Kirby Mckenzie developed a model for integrating technology into teachers training programs, it consist into three stages:

• Planning
• Implementation phase
• Evaluation

This plan also identified what should be taught, how and which technology.

              Fortunately, nowadays there are more teachers and students using ICT and let's just hope they take advantage of them.