UTILIZING DIGITAL LITERACY TOOLS AS PANACEA TO EFFECTIVE TEACHING AND LEARNING IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN ORUMBA SOUTH LOCAL GOVERMENT AREA

Abstract

The study discussed the use of digital literacy tools as panacea to effective Teaching and learning in Secondary schools in Orumba South. Two research questions were formulated for the study. They population for the study consisted 5210 from the fourteen Government Secondary schools. Simple random sampling was used to select ten students from each School making it 140 respondents. They instrument used for data collection was a 15 items questionnaire validated by two experts. The questionnaires were distributed by the researcher with the aid of research assistance to ensure 100 percent return rate . Mean were used for data analysis. The results indicated that students spent most of their times on Social media apps, Smartphones, zoom, WhatsApp and other such medias. They were inattentive to classroom lessons, quiz, test and assignment. Recommendations were made that digital tools be used in given assignment, test and other class activities which students can do at the comfort of their home or when ever they get in contact with their smartphones.