STRATEGIES TO ENHANCE COMPUTER SCIENCE EDUCATION IN COLLEGE OF EDUCATION
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BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
Education is one of the basic rights of every individual. Education prepares a person for life's problems. As a result, Gujjar, Khan, Baig, Ramzan, and Saifi (2010) concluded that education is essential not just for imparting information, but also for fostering a child's full personality. There are three stages of education in Nigeria: primary, secondary, and tertiary. Secondary education is the stage between primary education and higher education. It equips pupils equally to be productive members of society (Jegede and Owolabi, 2003). In affluent nations, tertiary education is seen as the key to producing not just educated citizens but also a skilled labor force. Secondary education is now considered as the cornerstone of the educational system in the twenty-first century, as stated by the World Bank in Etim (2006). For people and countries to have a prosperous future, it follows that secondary education must be of the highest quality. In accordance with the above assertions, Jacob and Tomoko (2001) said that secondary education is essential for economic progress. Globalization, the growing significance of ICT in the twenty-first century, and fast technological development, according to Jacob and Tomoko (2001), have rendered knowledge indispensable for competing in the global economy. Therefore, secondary education equips nations with the skills and knowledge necessary for economic progress, including higher education and the training of professionals such as technicians, scientists, and entrepreneurs. Secondary education may also be crucial in establishing healthy social and civic values and produces substantial private rewards, allowing students to gain skills that were unlikely to emerge in the primary grades. In turn, this allows adolescents to gain job-related skills, engage actively in society, take responsibility of their life, and continue learning. Particularly in technology's information-based economy, the educational system is progressively becoming a technological system. Due to scientific and technological advancements that continue to transform the worldwide technology, the Nigerian Federal Ministry of Education has included computer studies at all levels of education (Federal Republic of Nigeria, 2004).
There has been interchangeable usage of the phrase computer studies. It has been referred to as computer education in certain instances and computer literacy in others. In whatever context, it has the same meaning. Computer education is the endeavor or capacity to make the majority of individuals computer literate. They went on to explain that computer education (literacy) is the capacity to tell a computer what to do and to comprehend what it says. Computer literacy is the capacity to read, write, and speak the computer's language. It may also be seen as a process of teaching individuals how to utilize a computer to execute a program and a variety of applications, including business, industry, and commerce (Okorie, 2001). According to Edhuze (2003), computer studies entail teaching and instilling in the student the fundamental skills necessary for autonomously using the computer to attain educational objectives. Further, he added that the purpose of computer studies as a topic is to provide students with the necessary skills and competencies to compete in the digital world. As a result of these fundamental skills and competencies, graduates are conversant with computer-related terms and procedures. Computer studies is consequently a course designed to assist students to comprehend the function, applications, and limits of the computer and to give a chance to study contemporary information processing techniques. The experience of various nations that have implemented computer literacy programs indicates that the best location to begin computer awareness programs is at the school level, namely the secondary school level. Therefore, the 1988 decision by the Federal Government of Nigeria to launch its pilot program at the Federal Government Colleges was in accordance with what had proven effective in other nations and with the recommendations of the committee on Nigeria's National Policy for Computer Education. This committee was tasked, among other things, with advising the government on the curriculum and processes most suited to the country's requirements and the different levels of education. Globally, the computer of numeracy sophistication attained by the use of computers has reached a new level of prominence. Nigeria cannot afford to disregard the importance of computer literacy in reaching its technological development objective. Consequently, she has determined to include computer education into primary and secondary education. This resolution calls for the development of computer studies instructors who would teach in primary and secondary schools. "For effective teaching of computer science in our primary and secondary schools, therefore, there is a need to create professional teachers in the discipline....there is now a pressing need for the Colleges of Education to include computer studies in the professional training of teachers"[1].
1.2 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
The world is now undergoing a transformation that has been dubbed the "computer age," which is a time when computer of computers is essential for both people and organizations to maintain their economic viability. Starting from the very beginning of a kid's educational career, he has to have a solid computer of levels and the many applications they may be used for in order for that youngster to have any chance of being relevant in the current climate. As a result of the fact that computer science is an extremely important topic for the progression of technology, the poor performance of students in college has been a cause of concern for several stakeholders in the education system. Some academics have suggested that this unfortunate state of affairs is the result of a multitude of issues, the most prominent of which include insufficient facilities, inadequate internet resources and use, and inadequately qualified teachers who are proficient in ICT. As a direct consequence of this, both the students' morale and interest in computer science are significantly reduced. The recent advances in science and technology have made it necessary to use technical gadgets in order to do tasks that were previously carried out manually. This involves the computer of computers in a variety of domains pertaining to human endeavors. In the world of academia, many educators have advocated for and supported the use of computers in educational settings, both for teaching and for computer learning. But whether or whether the computer has made learning and instruction more effective is another topic worthy of careful consideration. The use of computers has made teaching and learning more effective, but this has not been accomplished without giving rise to certain basic challenges. Some educators who are not proficient in the use of computers may not believe that the use of computers is necessary in the classroom. In a different vein, the energy that powers the computers is not often present in the sense that there is a low supply of electricity throughout the country. In other words, the nation as a whole has a limited supply of electricity. Because of this, the usage of computers in classrooms has been negatively impacted. The inaccessibility of some software packages combined with the prohibitively expensive nature of computer systems has made it difficult for educational institutions to make good use of computers un the computer. A computer of teachers have a negative attitude toward the use of computers, which makes it more difficult to make efficient use of computers in the computer.
Teachers that instruct students at the elementary, middle, and high school levels are often produced by graduates of education colleges. Students at educational colleges who do not get enough instruction in the fundamentals of computer use and software programs run the risk of experiencing a crisis of confidence when confronted with the arduous tasks presented by today's information and communication technology (ICT) environment (ICT). It is unlikely that their goods will be able to compete with those produced in other nations for professions that need computer competence. Because of this, it is likely that Nigeria will never be able to catch up technologically with the rest of the globe, which would make the future challenging for both our children and our economy. In addition, Nigeria will not be participating in the process of globalization that is now taking place all over the world. There is little question that this will have an effect on the industrialization process, which in recent years has evolved into a function of computerization. Based on the assumption that the purpose of this education is to investigate ways to improve the education of computer science in education colleges.
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