ICT Competency: A Correlate of Technology Use in Indian Classrooms

The educational system in INDIA is facing major challenges as a consequence of the revolution of ICTs. To meet the challenges of knowledge society, teachers require adequate competence in ICT skills so that they can fruitfully integrate technology in their pedagogical practices. In developing countries like India, policy-makers have adopted ICT in education to accelerate their nations’ development efforts. In such hasty adoption, teachers’ competence in ICT skills has often been ignored and the mismatch between the culture of techno-centric mindedness and the teachers’ pedagogic culture often results in the alienation of the teachers from the use of technology. The present paper focuses on examining teachers’ level of competence in ICT skills, their experiences with ICT and how they use ICT in their current educational practices. There may be a chance that due to the presence of different types and levels of ICT skills possessed by teachers or due to their various pedagogical practices, the actual integration of ICT in pedagogy might get hindered. This study identified the proficiency in ICT skills of teachers and its correlation with the actual use of ICT in the classrooms.