THE BARRIERS OF ICT INTEGRATION IN SOUTH AFRICAN SCHOOLS.

THE BARRIERS OF ICT INTEGRATION IN SOUTH AFRICAN SCHOOLS.

According to the studies the barriers of ICT integration can be categorized into two classes, firstly is the extrinsic barriers which is the first order barrier and it involves cited access, time, resources, support and training. Secondly is the intrinsic barriers which is the second order barrier and it involves cited attitudes, beliefs, resistances and practices. Most of the teachers have got the desire to integrates ICT in their classroom but because of lack of knowledge, poor time management, lack of  technological competencies, poor training and lack of resources such as computers to teach their learners with. 

Teachers lack confidence, technological competencies and have this negative attitudes towards ICT  integration because they don't want to fail in using it in the classroom because most of them know very well that other children know computers more than they do so they do not want to expose themselves to the rest of the class because the learners will turn them into laughing stock. This negative attitude is the one that contributes mostly in these barriers because teachers resist to change with new technology but remain behind with the older one of which it has a negative impact on those learners he/she is teaching because they will have a challenge in trying to integrates with the new version. Lack of time is one main reason that inhibits the application of ICT in education as the teachers do not have enough time to accomplish some task because time is not on their side. ICT requires more time than any other subject in school as teachers have to give advice about internet, lesson plans, deal with technical problems and adequate problems. Lack of resources in the school that includes computers and adequate materials that the learners have to use in the classroom during the lesson and even at home the learners do not have computers to use in order to get used to computers and to facilitate ICT integration. Without the technical support in the classroom and the whole school teachers fail to overcome these barriers.  

   

  

Rural areas are the one of the highest places here in South Africa that experience the difficulties in integrating ICT in school because the learners who attends schools at rural areas are mostly likely to have no access to computers because of various reasons and one may be the fact that they don't have computers at home or maybe there are no internet cafe where they will go and do various activities in the cafe  where they are staying. The other reason is that parent are not working, so they cannot afford to buy them the computers or maybe they are working but they aren't earning barely enough to keep their soul and together , so they can not afford them. Learners who have computers at school never get the chance to use them regularly because teachers feel that they are not literally enough to use them and feel like they will break them or create virus to these computers as they will break down and theywill no longer have computer at school. And other ones is the fact that Government provide computers to the school but other school still do not have those computers.