The type of technologies to use

 Much depends on the skill level of the teacher and the students.  One thing for certain is that when you do not negate the Technology Quotient (TQ) of the students as the issue of Digital Divide is controlled to minimal level. Comparing the skills of students over the years the skill level increases down the age groups as each year goes by. The Technologies to use are broken into Traditional Learning Technologies (TLT) and Emerging Learning Technologies (ELT). 

The use of Traditional Learning Technologies (TLT)

Basic Hardware and Software requirements to include information processing systems- Desktop, laptop, tablets, smart phones, digital camera, mobile phone, interactive  smart boards, etc, every teacher has one and needs one, every class room needs interactive boards, each student needs tablet. 

1. Basic computer software

The use of word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Outlook and the Apple or Linux equivalent can all be implemented to enhance the learning of the content covered in class. 1. A simple task of providing word documents on your intranet or network with questions for the students to download. 

2. Production of audio-visual aids to support understanding. 3. A sample task of using PowerPoint to prepare a lesion by the teacher as you will see on a topic in Introduction and Fundamentals of Computer for Junior Secondary School class 2 class works on computer science. The ICT skills they would learn with this simple activity would numerous such as being able to power the device, navigate the system to access the file and make copies. In addition they have answered questions relevant to the unit of work they are studying.

3. Subject specific software

The specific subject software such as Data Logging for Science, Mathematics software games, GIS for Geography, image manipulation software for Visual Art, special programs for Languages to name a few.   For example the ICT skills learnt by using image manipulation software will teach the students a lot about manipulating the size of images for which the network manager will be eternally grateful. In the process of doing this the will learn where to locate original files, create photo galleries, thumbnails and perhaps integrate them into web pages.

4. Web browsing software

Students know how to use different browsers but do they use all of the functions?  Browsing software is a very powerful instrument.  Knowledge management aside the management of bookmarks should be the first thing taught to students.  This way they can learn to navigate to where they need to be quickly and efficiently.  Once the have done this they can learn to make use of functions on the internet that can collate their needed data and store information they have and interacting by using for example My Space.