Use of ICT in Schools in Central African Republic
Philippe Junior Sibiro, SPJ (Central African Republic)
Abstract
Introduction
What do we know precisely the relationship between young people and the Internet: how do they see this new tool? What do they know him really? What uses do they have in the family, at school? They experience difficulties, the fascination with the Internet? Are the behaviors and performances identical when young people are familiar with the Internet and where they have never used?
That's shed some light on these issues a research was conducted in 2015 in conjunction five institutions namely: the high schools Barthelemy BOGANDA, School Complex Protestant Centre for Youth, High School of Application of Normal Superior Technical School and Martyrs. This work is intended to deepen the reflection on media education, computer and internet included.
The reference period (January 2015) corresponds in all participating institutions at a time of movement, construction, implementation.
The results brought here therefore reflect a situation that has already changed. They provide parents, educational leaders and teachers with specific quantitative and qualitative information serving as a basis for better understanding of the developments.
They also help to identify new avenues for education, in particular the role of the computer, school and families and learning methods to implement to accompany technological change.
It now seems necessary to envisage the continuation of this work, so as to further analyze how recent technological changes modify the representations and Internet use among young people, and on what terms they promote its appropriation.
Goals
Identify and list the real problem of young people in terms of ICT use in schools
Methodology
The view of the research is both socio-educational and meta-theoretical:
• socio-educational, because our intention was to achieve understanding of the relationship of young people to the Internet. Our observations have not focused only on
Youth use practices or the effects (actual and envisaged) Internet on them but also on complex negotiations they have with each other;
• meta-theoretical, because we have sought to distance the methodology to produce a reflection on the tools and monitoring procedures of the problem with the ambition to provide a sufficiently reliable analysis model and, above all, pourrait- subsequently be extended.
Results
400 young people completed the questionnaire of the survey on the use of ICT in Central African Republic
Conclusion and Recommendation
Conclusion
Overall the study was well conducted in facilities that have been identified.
Recommendation
Equipping some schools computers
Strengthen the capacity of youth studying in institutions
Free access to internet in the school establishmen