Pre-Service Teacher Education and Technology Integration amid COVID-19 Pandemic in Colleges of Education

Jacob Kola Dr. Aina, Michael Olu Ayodele and Aremu Rauf Adekunle
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Jacob Kola Dr. Aina: School of Science Education. Kwara State College of Education (Tech.), Lafaigi, Nigeria.
Michael Olu Ayodele: School of Science Education. Kwara State College of Education (Tech.), Lafaigi, Nigeria.
Aremu Rauf Adekunle: School of Science Education. Kwara State College of Education (Tech.), Lafaigi, Nigeria.

International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science, 2021, vol. 05, issue 1, 336-341

Abstract: The paper focuses on integrating technologies for instruction in pre-service teacher education during the COVID-19 pandemic in Nigerian Colleges of Education. The emergence of COVID-19 occasioned the shifting paradigm of teaching in schools worldwide to online methods. The script discussed that pre-service teachers in Nigerian Colleges of Education is facing the challenge of integrating technologies into classroom instruction. The article stressed the importance of ICT to achieve quality pre-service teacher education in Colleges of Education. Integrating technologies into pre-service teacher education and the challenges COVID-19 poses to pre-service teacher education was discussed. The author averred that mobile learning through WhatsApp, Facebook, YouTube, and Google Classroom during the COVID-19 would provide sustained education. The conclusion was that teachers and students should explore mobile learning’s full benefits through WhatsApp Instant Messaging, Facebook, YouTube, and Google Classroom during the pandemic.

Date: 2021
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