The most prevalent model of ICT
implementation in schools (Model A) conformed to the managerial perspective
in technology planning (Kearsley, 1990), and emphasized on managing the
adoption of technological infrastructure, organizational structure and teachers’
technical skills. Thus, we named model A as the technological adoption model.
This model is likely to be found in the initial stage of innovation where the
immediate concern of the school leaders was whether the teachers were able to
master the necessary skills or technologies. What the principal of school A said
explained it well. This principal expressed his immediate concern: