Harnessing the Integration of ICT in the Competency Based Curriculum (CBC) for Lower Secondary Schools in South Western Uganda

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ABSTRACT
Implementation of CBC has come with challenges
which directly influence the success of learning
process. However much teachers and learners are
encouraged to make use of the immediate natural
resources to concretize subject concepts, most of the
issues center on the use of Information
Communication Technology (ICTs) to harness CBC.
As schools implement the integration of ICT in the
CBC they ought to run it with acceptable levels of
ICT literacy which aspect is lacking. The new CBC
encourages schools to train ICT as a vehicle in all
subjects than a standalone subject. The main
objective of the study was to harness the integration
of ICT in the Competency Based Curriculum (CBC)
for lower secondary schools in South West Uganda
We employed the philosophy of interpretivism with
qualitative research approach and inductive
strategy. This is because we wanted to make a
subjective judgment on the collected data as
observed during the teaching and learning process
(interpretivist) and study a small aspect of CBC and
later extrapolate to cover the entire CBC at
secondary school level (inductive). The study shows
that up-to-date technology and their accessories
should be working, available and accessible to
facilitate CBC in secondary schools. Learners are
more active when they use internet and they discover
a lot on their own during and after the lesson, and
this is the core of CBC. it is important to integrate
ICTs in CBC implementation process as it harnesses
teaching and learning for teachers and learners
respectively

Related Faculties/Schools

• Faculty of Education