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in today’s classrooms and many schools employ ICT as one of the essential teaching
resources (Muir & Geiger, 2016). Integrating ICT in learning and teaching is essential
which will benefit them for their future career and lifelong journey in the 21 st
century. NSW Department of Education has promoted the use of ICT in secondary
schools through the endorsement of policy - Student use of digital device and online
service. The policy has encouraged the integration of meaningful ICT in teaching and
learning as this is nurtured by the beliefs that ICT can benefit students’ learning and
wellbeing. (NSW Department of Education, 2020). Eickelmann, Gerick & Koop (2017)
admitted that the integration of ICT in teaching and learning mathematics is gaining
also academic achievement. The use of ICT is also ideal for the pedagogical approach
of flipped classroom. However, there are number of studies have put this under
debate whether the use of ICT in teaching and learning mathematics could assuredly
educational settings has been considered as one of the major priorities of K-12
education not only in Australian context but internationally as well (Witte & Rogge,
2014). ICT refers to the use of digital devices, applications and software to support
outlines ICT as one of the general capabilities which is important for students’
learning. Educators should modify and adjust their teaching practices and skills in
order to meet the implementation of ICT. These changes have directly affected the
Lerman & Winbourne, 2007). Barriers and obstacles could easily happen due to
obstacles in ICT- based teaching are varied and according to teacher perception,
these obstacles are: inadequate experience, training and skills in ICT, lack of
Mushayikwa (2013), the research's result showed that approximately 60 per cent of
teachers experienced difficulties in accessing ICT for both teaching process and
poor curriculum connections to the ICT activity; thus, students could not gain any
(Radovic, Maric & Passey, 2019). Witte & Rogge (2014) claimed that there were
many teachers admitted that the implementation of ICT into their teaching practices
only to fulfill the requirements rather than truly consider the benefits of ICT toward
indicate that the successful integration on ICT in teaching and learning mathematics