Digital Competence and Mysteries of Learning: Use of Technology in Classroom
The idea of digital competence has emerged in recent years around the globe. It entails a wide range of abilities and knowledge in every field. The current research paper is to investigate the digital competence and mysteries of learning: use of technology in classrooms by the teachers. University teachers were used as population and sixty teachers were randomly selected as a sam-ple from different campuses of education university Lahore. Self-constructed instrument, Teach-ers' Digital Competencies Survey [TDCS] instrument, was adapted and used for data collection. The results revealed a statistically apparent difference in gender of teachers about different indi-cators of digital competencies and learning with technology. It was concluded that male teachers had used more digital technology with more confidence than that female teachers. There search-ers recommended that digital competence may be promoted among teachers for the better teaching and learning environment. The universities should provide better technological facilities for better learning.
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Digital Learning, Technological Competence, Use of Technology
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(1) Shahbaz Ahmad
Assistant Professor, Department of Education, University of Lahore, Sargodha Campus, Punjab, Pakistan.
(2) Muhammad Naveed Khalid
Resource Person, Allama Iqbal Open University, Islamabad, Pakistan.
(3) Muhammad Anees-ul-Hasnain Shah
Associate Professor, Department of Education, University of Education Lahore, Dera Ghazi Khan Campus, Punjab, Pakistan.
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APA : Ahmad, S., Khalid, M. N., & Shah, M. A. (2021). Digital Competence and Mysteries of Learning: Use of Technology in Classroom. Global Social Sciences Review, VI(I), 523-530. https://doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2021(VI-I).53
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CHICAGO : Ahmad, Shahbaz, Muhammad Naveed Khalid, and Muhammad Anees-ul-Hasnain Shah. 2021. "Digital Competence and Mysteries of Learning: Use of Technology in Classroom." Global Social Sciences Review, VI (I): 523-530 doi: 10.31703/gssr.2021(VI-I).53
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HARVARD : AHMAD, S., KHALID, M. N. & SHAH, M. A. 2021. Digital Competence and Mysteries of Learning: Use of Technology in Classroom. Global Social Sciences Review, VI, 523-530.
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MHRA : Ahmad, Shahbaz, Muhammad Naveed Khalid, and Muhammad Anees-ul-Hasnain Shah. 2021. "Digital Competence and Mysteries of Learning: Use of Technology in Classroom." Global Social Sciences Review, VI: 523-530
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MLA : Ahmad, Shahbaz, Muhammad Naveed Khalid, and Muhammad Anees-ul-Hasnain Shah. "Digital Competence and Mysteries of Learning: Use of Technology in Classroom." Global Social Sciences Review, VI.I (2021): 523-530 Print.
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OXFORD : Ahmad, Shahbaz, Khalid, Muhammad Naveed, and Shah, Muhammad Anees-ul-Hasnain (2021), "Digital Competence and Mysteries of Learning: Use of Technology in Classroom", Global Social Sciences Review, VI (I), 523-530
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TURABIAN : Ahmad, Shahbaz, Muhammad Naveed Khalid, and Muhammad Anees-ul-Hasnain Shah. "Digital Competence and Mysteries of Learning: Use of Technology in Classroom." Global Social Sciences Review VI, no. I (2021): 523-530. https://doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2021(VI-I).53