Computers in the classroom. Are teachers ready?

Abstract

Integrating Information and Communication Technology (ICT) into Physics and Chemistry classroom poses an important challenge. Factors involved are numerous and complex. The key problem is how the students use ICT and their high-schools and the use that teachers make of these technologies in the classroom play a fundamental role. Research was carried out with 138 Physics and Chemistry teachers in order to analyze how they include ICT in their classroom work, their perception about how the students use ICT and the difficulties that arise when trying to incorporate it to their daily work. The results indicate that ICT is slightly integrated into the classroom work and that their use generates uncertainty in many teachers. It can be concluded that appropriate training of the teachers to facilitate their use in classroom is required.