AWARENESS AND UTILIZATION OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY IN LEARNING AMONG SENIOR SECONDARY BIOLOGY STUDENTS IN KWARA STATE, NIGERIA

The place of ICT in the technological development of any nation cannot be overemphasized. ICT has played
a prominent role in the teaching and learning process over time. This study investigated senior Secondary
School Biology students' level of awareness and utilization of ICT in Ilorin-south, Nigeria. The study was
descriptive of survey type in nature. The instrument used was researchers' designed questionnaire which
was validated by three ICT experts. The population for the study was all senior school Biology students in
Ilorin South, Nigeria out of which 300 respondents randomly selected were used for the study. Five research
questions and three hypotheses were tested and results shows that most of the respondents either own or
have access to ICT, are aware of educational role of ICTs, used ICTs for leisure purpose and sees poor
electricity supply as the major constraint to the use of ICTs in learning. Inferential and differential statistic
was used to analyze the data collected for this study. It was therefore recommended that there is the need to
raise extensive awareness for students to focus on educational use of ICT than less educative uses and that
the government should also provide stable electricity to facilitate effective use of ICTs in teaching and
learning.