RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN KNOWLEDGE, LEARNING AND TECHNOLOGY IN HIGHER EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENT     PT2        2500w

 2.3 History of Technology use in Schools

Technology in schools is in its infancy form, came through the availability of electronic media as a resource in the classroom. Televisions and movie projectors were the first, and new technology tools to be used in the classroom to enhance education. In the mid-1970s, the discovery of the personal computer permitted the use of this new technology in schools. The dawn of the TV in the 1930s and its acceptance by the public in the 1940s provides an expectation of how vital TV would be to education. The 1970s witnessed the starting of the microcomputer. Bill Gates, Steve Wozniak, and Steve Jobs, personal computing became commonplace to most people, including schools. While it took almost ten years to see Microcomputing become a reality in schools, the predictions were that machine like the personal computer would fundamentally modify how we teach and learn. (Bigenho, 2015, p. 20)

In 2007, the Ghana government launched an educational reform that was to ensure the integration of ICT in pre-tertiary education to enable students to acquire fundamental ICT skills including the use of the internet and their use in daily life activities (RDD, 2007a.b and c)

Karsenti (2003) observed in a study funded by IDRC that, limited research was done on the integration of ICT into African education and that this study was done in South Africa by scholars. The result of the studies shows that there was a tremendous lack of research on the use of ICT in education in Africa which has a possible impact on the quality of African education.

The use of computer labs in education stems from the use of a single computer in a classroom, from one classroom to a lot of classrooms and provided easy access for the student. whilst this