Effect of Computer instruction on student performance in Basic Technology is an account of a research effort tailored to evaluate the potency of technology in the midst of several challenges to teaching and learning Basic technology in Sokoto State, Nigeria After a painstaking and very tedious application of computer mediated instruction on an intact class in an urban located school and Traditional teaching approach in a school located in a rural setting for seven weeks.results revealed no significant difference in the process, on interrogation it was discovered that the students could bearly read nor write correctly, raising a lot of question on the conditions for effective and efficient teaching and learning pedagogy.