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CHAPER ONE INTRODUCTION Background to the problem     The environment in which the school operate has change significantly with the advent of information age. In the past two decade, educators have invested extensive times and resources in introducing technology into universities education.     However, the proliferation of new technologies offers a numb er of challenges for schools (in institution of higher learning) which includes; inadequate infrastructure, inadequate skills, inadequate funding among other factors. Many lecturers use technology only as an extension of the chalk and talk approach and also rely on traditional testing procedure to measure and evaluate student achievements and potential. It is noted that the prevailing pedagogical approach to technology in higher education is to teach curriculum through the medium of information communication technology. Technology activities should be aligned to the curriculum not the curriculum not to the computer. Technology involve

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.0.1    Civic Education Societies have long had an interest in the ways in which their young are prepared for citizenship and in how they learn to take part in civic life. Today that interest might better be described as a concern-in fact as a growing concern, particularly in democratic societies. There is evidence aplenty that no country, including our own Nigeria, has achieved the level of understanding and acceptance of the rights and responsibilities among the totality of its citizens that is required for the maintenance and improvement of any constitutional democracy. Nigerians should realize that civic education is essential to sustain our constitutional democracy. The habits of the mind, as well as "habits of the heart," the dispositions that inform the democratic ethos, are not inherited. As Alexis de Tocqueville pointed out, each new generation is a new people that must acquire the knowledge, learn the skills, and develop the disposition