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CHALLENGES OF ICT FOR TEACHERS IN MADRASA
Authors: Shamima Ansari
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In the present era of digitisation, ICT use in the classroom is crucial for giving students opportunities
to learn and apply to satisfy their needs essential 21st-century skills. Digital learning has the
potential to reach more children than ever before. It has the ability to motivate the unmotivated. This
study aims to finding out the difficulties faced by Madrasa teachers in using Information and
Communication Technology (ICT) for classroom teaching-learning. The use of ICT in the classroom
is immensely important to offer opportunities for students to learn to operate their learning task in an
information age. The objective of this paper is to assess teachers’ perceptions of the challenges faced
in using ICT tools in the classroom transactions. A qualitative research design was used to collect
the data randomly from a sample of 86 teachers in which 46 males and 40 females, who were selected
from the 5 Madrasas of Varanasi in the state of Uttar Pradesh. For data collection, the investigator
has used a self-developed questionnaire for knowing the teacher's perception of the challenges faced
in using ICT in the classroom. The findings indicated that although teachers had a strong desire to
use ICT in the classroom, they were encountered with some barriers such as insufficient technical
supports at Madarsa and little access to Internet problems, electricity, knowledge regarding
information communication technology, lack of training, lack of supporting system, lack of
institutional support, no encouragement from government, no availability of teaching-learning
material in the local language, etc. There are so many challenges to face teachers using ICT in the
classroom. The researcher made an attempt to describe the list of challenges faced by the teacher will
be discussed in the present paper