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ICT has helped to eliminate and minimise the financial involvement, time wastage and potential safety and health threats or hazards that would have been incurred or encountered in the process of moving from one place to another to create awareness and sensitize the public about the various environmental challenges faced by the people on a daily basis, and how such challenges could be mitigated.
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ICT achieves this through the use of some web tools such as Blogs, Wikis and Google Earth, to demonstrate a visual experience of a similar challenge elsewhere and at the same time illustrate how such challenges were handled or tackled in such an environment. People’s attitudes have been moulded through ICT on how they can express feelings of concern about taking active participation with the primary aim of encouraging environmental stewardship. The various skills of ICT, if properly harnessed can enable environmentalists identify and solve such identified problems.
ICT
ICT is technology that supports activities involving information. Such activities include gathering, processing, storing and presenting data. Increasingly these activities also involve collaboration and communication. Hence IT has become ICT: information and communication technology. Information and communication technology, or ICT, is defined as the combination of informatics technology with other, related technologies, specifically communication technology. In this book, these three definitions have been collapsed into a single, all encompassing, definition of ICT. This definition implies that ICT will be used, applied, and integrated in activities of working and learning on the basis of conceptual understanding and methods of informatics.
ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE
Students academic gain and learning performance is affected by numerous factor including gender, age, teaching faculty, students schooling, father/guardian social economic status, residential area of students, medium of instructions in schools, tuition trend, daily study hour and accommodation as hostelries or day scholar. Many researchers conducted detailed studies about the factors contributing student performance at different study levels. A student educational success contingent heavily on social status of student’s parents/ guardians in the society. The same that parent’s income or social status positively affects the student test score in examination. The higher education performance is depending upon the academic performance of graduate students. Today, there is a clear need for education to learn about the factors that influence a student’s academic performance, considering the performance to be the quantitative result obtained during the learning process, based on the evaluations carried out by the teachers through objective test evaluations. The latest patterns in this area highlight the importance of considering other variables beyond intellectual capabilities. These trends are supported by several points of research that show that academic performance is not only associated with intellectual quotient (IQ), but there are multiple variables and dimensions to which a certain predictive value can be attributed. For this reason, the objective of this report is to extend the existing source of knowledge when it comes to explaining or understanding academic performance, which is why we will analyze the importance of emotional intelligence, personality and the meaning of life in such performance. Along the years, there have been many studies devised in aims to identify the variables that can predict academic achievement.
ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION
It is evident that our world today is quite changing and is different from that of the agricultural and the industrial revolution. The pressure on the environment due to climate change — higher temperature, shifting seasons, more frequent and extreme weather events such as floods and droughts, the challenge for food production becomes even more daunting. Our environment is inseparatable from life. There is every need for the proper management of our world. This calls for the need for environmental awareness to all and sundry in schools at all levels especially in developing countries such as Nigeria which has little or no provision for such awareness in curriculum/syllabus in areas of some related subject(s) among which is EE. This activated some elites in the developed world-organization for Economic and Cooperative Development (OECD) in April 1971 to analyze the serious need and urgency of establishing and developing new teaching programmes at school, college and university. Many developing countries are beginning to realize the role of environmental education in abating the environmental issues — the African Social and Environmental Studies Programmes (ASESP) with its seat in Nairobi, Kenya encourages and promotes the creation of environmental awareness and protection in pupils and student at the same time develops useful activities for pupils and student at the same time develops useful activities for pupils during instruction. The United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) in 1972. The Belgrade Chapter in 1975. The earth summit also known as the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), the Education, Science and Documentation Centre (ZED), UNESCO is not left out.
ICT AND PERFORMANCE OF STUDENTS IN ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION
In defining the scope of environment, certain interrelated factors come to mind. Such factors include human, biological, biotic and abiotic, chemical, flora and fauna. Environment, in the course of time, has suffered serious deterioration mainly due to anthropogenic (human) activities and increased need for the improvement of standard of living of the populace. These negative impacts have created a hiatus in and a dire need for the preservation and maintenance of the environment. In order to address man’s ignorance and the danger it has posed on the environment, various movements for environmental education have been sponsored. The tremendous contributions of information and communication technology systems (ICTS) over the years cannot be overstated. The impacts of these systems have permeated every fabric of the society, covering social, economic, cultural, political and educational sectors. In the education sector, for instance, ICTS have given different categories of learners an opportunity to access their learning careers and professions with ease. Learning has been made so flexible, easily-accessible and practical-oriented. Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has revitalised and transformed the learning environment and platforms in the education sector. It has provided learners with a gamut of learning opportunities, ranging from computer, Internet and WhatsApp to Facebook, Zoom/Webinar and so on. With the large number of beneficiaries across the globe, there is no gainsaying the fact that the education sector is most advantaged when it comes to the use of ICT. Interestingly, both adults and school age children now enjoy unlimited access in exploring and maximising the various ICT potentials available at their disposal for increased learning opportunities. Adult learners, for instance, now have a wide range of choices to access their learning any day, anytime and anywhere, without moving from one place to another, and at the same time still carry out their various roles and duties in their respective homes, offices, churches, and so on. Adults are vulnerable to various challenges in their locality, and the solution to such problems, if not known or identified can be easily accessed with the aid of ICTS. The enormous role of ICT in environmental education cannot be over-emphasised. Essentially, ICT has revitalised the environmental sector of education by giving facilitators and their clientele unlimited access to explore their learning activities and to overcome physical, financial or distance barriers.
