lesson activity
Wednesday, September 30, 2020
Reflection on the use of ICT in teaching and learning August 2020
Integrating
ICT into classroom teaching and learning means the use of learning technologies
to introduce, reinforce, supplement and extend skills. ICT integration doesn’t
mean to replace the traditional teaching and learning methods but to promote
further learning by incorporating it as and when relevant in our classroom
situation. ICT into classroom instruction enhances children’s learning.
The
whole world is full of ICT. There is continual advancement in technological products
and the systems themselves. We just need to be equipped with skills and provide
the skills to our young learners as well. Since Technology is used as a means
of solving some of the problems which we face in our teaching and which the
learners face in their learning. The course adopted the major principles of
using ICT for teaching and learning. We identified the level of ICT integration
into classroom teaching and learning, grading the scenarios given as high,
middle and basic levels with the hands on practices. This pandemic COVID-19 came
uninvited and stirred the whole world! Implementing ICT in teaching and
learning process soared in every nation. Even in a small country like ours our
government and ministry of education was fast enough to come up with different
ICT based teaching and learning.
Teaching
through BBS television and Google classroom quickly came into action.
Different school across the country adopted different online mediums to teach
and reach to their children. Different mediums were chosen or selected based on
the convenience and feasibility. Schools in urban areas were comfortable with
Google classroom and BBS television due to fast internet speed and maximum use
of television. Schools in the rural areas relied on best suited social media to
teach, in my school most of us teach through we chat as most of our children
are too small to participate in goggle classroom. All the teacher taught through we chat, class teachers created group chat and we follow strict norms
so as to make teaching and learning meaningful and fruitful. We have timetable
for different subjects and when it’s our turn to teach through online we make
sure to put in our best to make our teaching and learning more interactive and
useful.
We even conducted online test and do online corrections.
Blog creating session was very enriching as with this
communicative tool, we could share our teaching learning experiences with our
friends and get to learn about their experiences too.
Reflection
28th September,20
Integrating ICT in the lesson creates amazing
opportunities and also makes teaching and learning more effective, it takes
learning beyond the text where students get to explore information and they
learn more when they are given to handle any kind of situation on their own but
these happens only when teacher and students are sitting face to face.
Unfortunately, because of COVID-19 the situation became very different, where
we had to teach the students on-line which was very difficult for small kids of
5 plus of years. Never the less, I tried to make it as interesting as it could
be despite eruption of many inconvenient situation.
As,
this year I teach class PP, I chose the subject Math topic 3 D shapes. Actually,
I wanted my students to get clear information about the 3-D shapes from the
internet but then I thought that if they can at least hear the voice of their
class teacher, they would concentrate little on the clip. So with my logical
thinking, I proceeded with my lesson. The world is full of ICT, as an educator
we need to be equipped with skills and provide the skills to our young learners
as well. The school curricula should become more relevant to the needs of the
21st society.
So
keeping in mind, I try to explore and use the different strategy that I have
learned during my DE course in the campus. After all Technology should be used
as a means of solving some of the problems which we face in our teaching and
which the learners face in their learning.
Advantages
In order to let children identify names of the
3-D shapes, I used Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation. Firstly, I was very happy
because I could teach my lesson by using PowerPoint and present my lesson using
simulation. Secondly, I could explored and used the given strategy in a
well-organized mannered. Thirdly, my lesson went very well and I got many
encouraging comments from my colleague .Though it was a time consuming and
since people like me who have less knowledge about ict had to face lots of
problem but at the same time I enjoyed a lot making my lesson using different
strategy. And I hope my children and parents would also have enjoyed watching
my lesson. As no one learns in the same way because of different learning
styles and abilities. Technology provides great opportunities for making
learning more effective for everyone with different needs.
Disadvantage
Since my lesson went very well compared to the
previous lesson because this time I could make use of my ICT knowledge learned
during my course at the campus. At the same time people with less
knowledge like me and the online classes with small kids of five plus is not at
all and easy work/job. Some drawbacks that I encountered was firstly,
everything I made has to be in a trial and error bases so it needed lots of
time. Secondly, lack of communicational skill due to lack of time, I was not
able to communicate with each of the students and know their level of skills on
the given topic. Though, during the assessment, I do come to know the level of
each child but only during assessment because of the time constrain. Thirdly,
trailing off from the given task. Since because of the present situation some
parents could not be very vigilant and consistence in the task given. There was
also chance of students not getting the correct information, and might be
distracted from the clip.
Lastly,
despite all these disadvantages and advantages, I felt the lesson went well and
I would like to thank our tutor Sir Ugyen Wangchuk for sharing the knowledge about
such use of ICT, because of which I could at least explore and come to solve
the solution.
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