International Journal of Innovation and Applied Studies ISSN 2028-9324 Vol. 2 No. 3 Mar. 2013, pp. 259-264 © 2013 Innovative Space of Scientific Research Journals http://www.issr-journals.org/ijias/ Corresponding Author: Olukayode Solomon ABODERIN (aboderin_kyd@yahoo.com) 259 The Challenges Toward Implementation of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in Secondary Schools in Ondo State, Nigeria Olufemi Victor ADEOLUWA 1 , Olukayode Solomon ABODERIN 1 , and Oladele Dennis OMODARA 2 1 Department of Curriculum Studies, Ekiti State University, Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria 2 Department of Curriculum Studies, College Of Education, Ikere, Ekiti State, Nigeria Copyright © 2013 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. ABSTRACT: The study investigated the Challenges of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in secondary schools in Ondo state. It sought to find out the level of access to ICT among secondary school teachers and students. Also the study investigated the level of utilization of ICT for instructional purposes and the attitude of teachers and students towards ICT utilization of ICT in secondary schools. The study adopted the descriptive survey design. The sample for the study consisted of 450 teachers randomly selected from two hundred and ninety six (296) secondary schools in the eighteen Local Government Areas of Ondo State. A combination of multistage, stratified and simple random sampling technique was used in selecting the sample. A questionnaire titled “Challenges of information and communication technology for secondary schools teachers (CICTSST)” was designed and validated. The data obtained were analyzed using frequency counts, percentages, mean and bar chart. The result of the findings showed that: ICT facilities are not available in schools. Majority of the teachers and students do not have access to ICT. There are significant factors affecting the utilization of ICT for instructional purposes. The study also revealed that teachers show positive attitude toward utilization of ICT in teaching and learning. KEYWORDS: Challenges, Information and Communication Technology, Implementation, instructional purposes and Secondary Schools. 1 INTRODUCTION Everyday, Computers become more important factor in today’s society because there is virtually no human endeavour where Computer does not find applications. Indeed, we are confronted with computers during working hours and in our private lives. The same applies to communication. Nowadays, we have much more possibilities to communicate with other people as a result of computer networking. Mobile phones, electronic mail, short message service (SMS) and chat-boxes are few examples of the new possibilities actualised through communication. All these new communication means have their own specific way of using them, their own advantages and disadvantages and their own specific group of users. The Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is one of the important innovations for modern development. The term ICT springs up from the convergence of telecommunication, computing and broadcasting through the use of digital information. It covers any product that will store, retrieve, manipulate, transmit and receive information electronically in a digital form. ICT encompasses the broad fields of information and communications by means of computer and telecommunication; tools that are being increasingly used for organizational or personal information processing in all sectors of economy and the society as a whole.