AWARENESS OF TECHNOLOGY BASED LEARNING AMONG THE URDU MEDIUM SCHOOL STUDENTS

Educational Technology has reformed the whole education system. It is the need of the time that education system should focus on providing quality education to the students. Educational technology has revolutionized the teaching learning process and has increased the scope of teachers' functions such as management of resources and management of learning. The present study was conducted to determine the level of awareness of the students studying in Urdu medium schools of Hyderabad city (India) with regard to technology integration in the learning process. It also sought to investigate if there is any significant association of Technology awareness of the students with Gender and the type of school (Private, government aided and government) in which they study. Survey method was adopted for the study, in which the researcher constructed and developed mixed interview schedule to gather the data from the field. 14 Urdu medium schools were selected by simple random sampling technique, among which 12 were government schools, 2 each were private schools and government aided schools. The data obtained from the students were carefully analyzed using MS Excel, SPSS. To test the association between the variables, chi square test was performed using the Minitab software. The finding of the study reveals that the most of the school students have moderate level of awareness towards regarding the technology integration in the learning process. Chi Square analysis of the tabulated data showed that the technology awareness of the students and Gender is not statistically significantly associated with each other; however there is statistically significant association between the technology awareness of the students with the type of schools in which they study.