ATTITUDE OF TEACHERS TOWARDS COMPUTERS AND ITS IMPLICATIONS IN CLASSROOM TEACHING

Computers are increasingly widespread, influencing many aspects of our personal, work lives, as well as
many of our leisure activities. As more tasks involve human-computer interaction, computers skills and knowledge
have become more positively correlated with both occupational and personal success. It is possible to acquire
information through using computers and the Internet. Therefore, as we move into a technology based society, it is
important that student's classroom experiences with technology be equitable and unbiased for males and females. In
most cases, the teacher is key to effective implementation of the use of computers in the educational system and
given that teachers have tremendous potential to transmit beliefs and values to students, it is important to
understand the biases and stereotypes that teachers may hold about the use of computers and the factors that act as
facilitators to teachers' positive computers usage. Present study was conducted keeping in mind the objectives of
comparing the attitude of government and private secondary school science and arts teachers belonging to urban
and rural background towards use of computers in class-room teaching. The study was carried out on 500
secondary school teachers of rural and urban areas of Amritsar. The result revealed that there exists no significant
difference in attitude of secondary school teachers belonging to urban and rural area towards use of computers.
Further results showed that there exists no significant difference in attitude of secondary school teachers towards
computers in classroom teaching.