CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Background of the Study
ICT increase quality of education. One of the most vital contributions of ICT in the field of education is easy access to Learning (Sharma,S., Gandhar,K., Sharma,S., Seema, 2009) According to the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development 2005-2014, geography is really closed with education for sustainable development, and ICT is the first tool that will help both, teachers and pupils. With ICT the lifelong learning will be easier. The role of ICT can be evaluated in many directions. According to Becta 2003, five factor of influence the like hood that good ICT learning opportunities will develop in the schools: ICT resourcing, ICT leadership, ICT teaching, school leadership and general teaching. Becta (2003) also indicates that the success of the integration of new technology and information into education varies from curriculum to curriculum, place to place , and class to class, depending on the way is which it is applied in depended (Bingimla, 2009). Geography is a broad scientific discipline that brings different information. Geography helps pupils to have information about the world. In geography lesson, pupils learn about the location, distribution, distance, movement, region, scale, spatial association, and spatial interaction and change over time (Reinfried, Schleicher, Rempfler, 2007). Access in information is a very important asset for development and ICT can help to share information. Contemporary learning theory is based on the notion that learning is an active process of constructing knowledge rather than acquiring knowledge and that instruction is the process by which this knowledge construction is supported rather than a process of knowledge transmission (Duffy, & Cunningham, 1996).