ABSTRACT
This chapter examines Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in schools and the role of school leadership and teachers in advancing the integration of ICT into public schools in South Africa, a post-colonialized country, liberated from the supremacies of many decades of segregated education. The use of ICT in classrooms cannot be underestimated in providing opportunities for students to learn to function within an information and digital age. Hokanson and Hooper outline two types of ICT use namely, learning about computers, and learning with or through computers. To introduce ICT to learners in the classroom, believing that ICT will transform South Africa’s education system, in 2014, the Gauteng provincial government signed a contract with Huawei to provide 88000 tablets to 2200 beneficiary schools. Teacher professional development is crucial to successful ICT implementation, since teachers and school managers cannot be left to their own devices to figure out what works and what does not, according to Mihai and Nieuwenhuis.
