Influence of Information Technology Usage on the School Environment: a Case Study on Private schools in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Abstract

In the current era, humanity and the entire world are witnessing an amazing boom in all aspects of life, especially in the field of information and communications technology, which requires the need for educational institutions to keep pace with this development and prepare to enter the world of digital technology to catch up with nations armed with science and knowledge. This paper aims to identify the impact of the information society on education in the Arab world, specifically in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The importance of this work lies in identifying the efforts made in the Arab world to confront the repercussions of the information society on education. This research reached the following resultss:- - There is an important and growing demand for transfer to community school to build a knowledge-based society, as it received a very high degree of importance with an average of 4.38 and an increase of 87.6%. - It was found that there was an important and urgent shift to the electronic school (integrating technology into education), as it obtained a very high degree of importance with an average of 4.46, or 89.2%. - There is a basic orientation towards learning to produce innovation and knowledge, so it obtained a very high importance score with an average of 4.43, or 88.6%.