ICT Barriers to South Afrian Education

Information Communication Technology is an information source that is being used to access information easy and faster. The use of ICT in our country South African has not yet developed, it is still in the process of developing especially in rural areas. This barriers may be due to:

• The lack of resources such as computers, printers etc
• Lack of qualified educators who have experience when coming to the usage of technology
• Lack of electricity especially in rural areas our country still have a huge problem when coming to provide electricity in some areas there is no electricity
• Limited classrooms which means there is no space for computer labs
• Lack of technical support such as internet. Most rural schools have no wi-fi
• Poverty is one of the barriers. people who live in porvety their basic needs wont be usage of computers but food so ict is the last thing in their mind
• Lack of capital to start up ict projects,our country is the developing country by that it means for every capital it has,the first priority is to satisfy basic needs of each individual

Information Communication Technology

We are living in a 21st century so usage of Information Communication Technology(ICT) is really important and also in high demand. It is improving really fast so it is really important to be able to use technology as our everyday lives we use technology as a way to reach certain goals. So is really important for us teachers to know how to use computers or to atleast have basic skills.

               

To improve ICT barriers i think they should start teaching computer skills from primary especially in rural areas. The teachers who do not have computers skills they should start by learning computer skills  to be able to teach those skills to learners. More private companies can make donation of computers to disadvantaged schools just like Vodacom company. The government can merge with other companies for funding and donation. Even the people from the community who have computer skills can also help by teaching computer skills in their local schools.

"My schooling at Babutheni Secondary school- journey continued"

The subjects that i did at Babutheni Secondary school are-

• IsiNdebele home language
• English first additional language
• Mathematical literacy
• Accounting
• Economics
• Business Economics
• Life Orientation

Babutheni secandary school

I matriculated at Babutheni Secondary school in the year 2009. My school is situated in Mpumalanga province in the small place in Allemansdrift B. My school is in the rural areas. Its a small village which means that we were not techologically advanced.

Debate awards


Soccer teamThe activities that we did at school are soccer,netball,volley ball  and other sports activities we knew. My favourate activity i used to do at school is speech or debate. I am not active when coming to sport but i was a good supporter when coming to sport.



Classroom
My school was not technologically advanced, we had really simple classrooms. Desks,chairs,textbooks,chalkboard and books. The usage of technology (computers and printers) it  was only in the administration office.To us learners when we had to do reasearch we had to go to the library for research. Even though we were not exposed to technology in our classrooms,we were still learning so many things without technology using the textbooks and information sources. My schooling days were really fun, i had very supportive teachers,great friends and classmates. Surely,i miss my schooling days.