• Dr.Shrima Banerjee

The word “technology” means the application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes. It also means "science of craft", from Greek word techne means, "art, skill, cunning of hand"; Technology is the continually developing result of accumulated knowledge and application in all techniques, skills, methods, and processes used in industrial production and scientific research. To know about the technology and the use of technology is an essential skill in today’s era as every individual working or finding an opportunity to work should be familiar with the technology. As we all know that situations like during the pandemic of covid – 19 everyone had to shift from offline mode to online mode. This situation taught us the importance of technology but being scared to use the technology or the fear of technology can be loss in various ways like do not get jobs, if one is not updated with various advancements in the technology gets fired or the salary paid is less compared to the one who is paid more salary as one has knowledge about the use of technology, updates and advancements taking place in the technology. Various situations like pandemic, strikes, lockdowns, etc technology was used 24*7 and one were scared or feared to use had suffered a lot as they were technophobic. So, the need to study arise in order to know and understand the reasons for technophobic and how to overcome the technophobia if one is facing it. The main objective of this research is to study the knowledge, Experience possessed, Learning Capacity, facilities provided , Solutions to overcome the fear of Secondary School teachers about the use of electronic gadgets and online tools.We also understand that maximum number of teachers enjoy teaching in offline mode compared to online mode as it is very difficult to use the online teaching apps but after learning how to use the technology and attending the sessions and orientations conducted by the school the teachers have now enjoyed teaching in online mode. There are maximum number of teachers who enjoy teaching in both the methods that is offline and online mode. Earlier offline mode was easy as it had face to face interaction but this interaction is also possible in online mode but via the apps like zoom, google meet, webex, etc. This online apps became the source of teaching learning process for both students and teachers during the pandemic. The research teaches us that we should also learn to understand that situations may be worst or good we should be flexible in both the ways. Though we are not good to few things but learning them makes us master in this thing. We should also learn to keep learning and growing in our life.

Technophobia, Secondary school teachers, School, Pandemic

"“To study the technophobia faced by the secondary school teachers of the schools during pandemic”-", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 6, page no.e761-e773, June-2022, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2206495.pdf

"“To study the technophobia faced by the secondary school teachers of the schools during pandemic”-", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 6, page no. ppe761-e773, June-2022, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2206495.pdf