This document summarizes ICT use at Gayaza High School in Uganda. It describes the school's ICT environment including infrastructure, how teachers are using technologies like educational apps, learning platforms, and open source content. It also discusses opportunities like ICT support staff and computer labs, as well as challenges such as inadequate resources like only two projectors, lack of support for the ICT department, and teachers' lack of ICT skills. The conclusion emphasizes the need for administrative policies, budget allocation, staff training, and improving the learning environment to better support technology use at the school.
3. ICT Environment at Gayaza High School
•School Administration
•Teachers
•Students
•Parents
•Infrastructure
4. Introduction– Emerging Technologies
•emerging technologies will most likely play an
important role in reaching the demands of those
institutions in the 21st century.
•In addition, emerging technologies are expected to
change the economic and social environment in a
profound way.
13. Challenges
•In adequate resources. The school has only
two movable projectors
•Lack of strong will to support ICT
department
•Teacher lack of ict skills
14. Conclusion
•Administrative policies play a big role in
technology trends
•Need for budget allocation
•Staff training needs to be done
•The learning environment has to be improved
Emerging
technologies are technologies including their applications currently in development and possibly being
applicable to the potential user community within the next ten years. A more elaborate definition has
been disclosed by R
otolo, Hicks and Martin (2015) who identified five attributes of an emerging
technology: radical novelty, relatively fast growth, coherence, prominent impact, and uncertainty and
ambiguity.
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