Knowledge of the educational implications of computer games by some student teachers in Southwest Nigeria

Abstract

This paper reports an expost facto research carried out to find out from 153 Computer Education Students (from Colleges of Education) their knowledge of Computer games. The researcher specifically set out to investigate, if those Computer Education Students thought pupils could actually learn form Computer games. The findings show that these level of Nigerian teachers in training who would be the ones to inculcate computer skills into the learners (at primary and Junior secondary school level) still needs a lot of education themselves especially in the areas of the capabilities of computer games for learning.

The Nigerian Journal of Guidance and Counselling Vol. 9(1) 2004: 16-24