Diagnosing the barriers for integrating Educational Technology in Physics courses in Lebanese secondary schools

Abstract

This paper investigates the barriers affecting the success implementation of ICT in the Lebanese secondary physics classes. It is realistic based study adopted the descriptive quantitative method to collect data by attitude test survey from 94 Lebanese secondary schools from different Lebanese districts.
 The results indicated that the ICT implementation in physics courses was not attained. Physics teachers must improve their ICT skills. Moreover, the low technology periods per week and revealing curriculum content, inflexibility of the curriculum to ICT implementation, insufficient existence of computer labs, lack financial support, insufficient training, inadequate technical support, unavailability of internet connectivity and the crowded class rooms were main barriers that prevent the implementation of ICT.

Human Capital In The Sustainable Development Of The Regional Economy

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Promising Digital Schools: An Essential Need for an Educational Revolution

“…Consequently, educators lack the vital meaning of digital literacy. They reflect low confidence and weak competencies to implement advanced digital tools and benefit from the communication channels of the social media platforms (Yehya et al, 2018). Their negative attitude towards digital tools and the effectiveness of their techniques lead to high resistance to accept digitalization and its impact on developing learners' achievement in their learning environment.…”

“…Their negative attitude towards digital tools and the effectiveness of their techniques lead to high resistance to accept digitalization and its impact on developing learners' achievement in their learning environment. Accordingly, policymakers and educators need to show the importance of digital learning beyond the hardware and the expanded definition of the learning management systems (Yehya et al, 2018). Educators must show awareness of radical changes to their curricula, instructions, assessments, and classroom management in the presence of educational digital technology tools.…”

“…The majority of Lebanese schools fail to be engaged in the digital age and to implement educational technology appropriately and effectively (Yehya, 2019). Schools' difficulties to implement ICT have continued to run during the process of adopting and using these technologies at the levels of learners, teachers, communities, and educational policymakers (Yehya et al, 2018).…”

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“…From the second side, the evidence based on several experimental studies suggests that learning can be improved by integrating new technologies of information and communication (ICT) (Tarman & Dev, 2018;Salas-Pilco & Law, 2018), particularly computer simulations as a possible contribution on topics that learners find conceptually difficult in exploring them in more depth and interactive ways (Sarabando et al, 2016). Computer simulations as educational technology tools have become increasingly powerful and available to teachers in the past three decades (Yehya et al, 2018;Taher & Khan, 2015;Trundle & Bell, 2010) and presently physics teachers can select from a wide range of computer simulations available through the internet.…”