Technological Innovations in Education: A Comparative Analysis of ICT and Youtube In Teaching and Learning amongst Education Students in The University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria
- March 22, 2022
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International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS) | Volume VI, Issue II, February 2022 | ISSN 2454–6186
Onyido Josephine Azuka, Mbato Stanley Ikemefula
Department Of Educational Foundations, Faculty Of Education, University Of Port Harcourt.
Abstract
The study examined technological innovations in education: a comparative analysis of ICT and YouTube in teaching and learning amongst education students in the University of Port Harcourt. The study adopted the descriptive survey design. Samples of 400 respondents were drawn from a population of 5200. The population cuts across eight (8) departments in the Faculty of Education University of Port Harcourt. Instrument for data collection was titled “Technological Innovations in Education: A Comparative Analysis of ICT and YouTube Questionnaire” (TIECAICTAYTQ). Two objectives, research questions and two corresponding hypothesis guided the study. Item by item analysis involving mean and standard deviation as well as independent t-test was used in analyzing the data at 0.05 significance level. Findings of the study revealed that there is no significant difference between the mean score of male and female students on the influence of incorporating information communication and technology (ICT) amongst education students in the University of Port Harcourt. And that there is no significant difference between the mean score of male and female students in the various ways which the use of YouTube has influenced male and female students students’ academic performance amongst education students in the University of Port Harcourt. Based on these findings, it was recommended that government should allocate adequate fund to run ICT in the school. And that there should be regulation by both teachers and parents on the ways students use them in order not to affect their academic performance negatively.
Keywords: ICT and YouTube
Introduction
Agbakwuru (2017) opined that the whole range of technologies or devices involved in information processing. In the same vein, Vikoo (2013) as cited in Aderiye & Nwanazhinim (2017:238), sees ICT as a term used to describe technologies or devices which receive, record, process, transmit and retrieve information. It is the handling and processing of information by means of electronic and communication devices such as digital computers, cameras, phones, slide projectors, etc. to collect, process, teach or educate, store, disseminate, control, enlighten and entertain in a classroom or lecture balls and offices where teaching and learning take place. ICTs are believed to be an electronic ways of sharing or exchanging information from one person or group of persons to another. (Achuonye, 2004), ICTs are not one but many different complementary technologies, particularly digital gadgets, these includes;
(1) Fiber-optics
(2) Laser disc,
(3) Packet switching
(4) Direct Broadcast Satellite (DBS) and
(5) Digital Satellite System (DSS) multimedia technologies or devices.
Vikoo (2013), as cited in Aderiye & Nwanazhinim (2017:239), ICT in teaching and information handling is the internet which is a vast network of networks that connect countless computers connected by telephone lines or satellite systems all over the world in a manner of speaking and teaching and learning from one person to another. Agbakwuru (2017), Observed that ICT is basically the use of radio, television, videos, computer, sensor interface boxes emails, satellite connections, internets, and all other softwares and electronic materials employed by the teacher to facilitate the transfer of skills and knowledge.
