ICT IN THE CLASSROOM

Nursery rhymes help children to develop language acquisition and help speech development. It helps to learn basic numeracy and counting forward and backward. So in one of my lesson in mathematic PP, I taught nursery rhyme in the topic ‘Counting to 10’. Children already learned numbers from one to five in the previous chapter. It was easy for me to teach numbers from six to ten. They can say the numbers from one to ten easily but it was very difficult to teach how to count number backward. There is one topic where children should be able to say the numbers backward from ten to one. So I taught one rhyme call “ Ten little monkeys jumping on the bed”. When I was teaching this rhyme it was very difficult to teach them the lyrics of the rhyme in sequence. So I downloaded the nursery rhyme from YouTube and showed to my children.

 I divided the class into two groups and played rhymes to them with pictures as shown in the pictures below. Children were so excited to watch and sing the rhyme.

After watching many times they can sing the rhyme “Ten Little monkeys jumping on the bed” with correct lyrics. Since the rhyme starts with ten and goes backward (eg; ten, nine, eight ……..) children can also count the backward. They can now say the numbers backward from ten to one. ICT helps me to teach that rhyme and helps children to learn so quickly. I did it in the class itself by taking two laptops because it takes time to take small kids to the other room connected with projectors. We have only 40 minutes in one period so it's very difficult to control and take small kids to that room.  


If we can use ICT daily with our lesson I am sure it will benefit our children in learning. On the other hand, it has disadvantages, example lack resources, meaning every class need projector individually with a computer which is impossible due to lack of budgets. We cannot take our children to other only room connected with projectors every period. It reduces our time from teaching periods.

Therefore, I wish in future our children get these facilities to use in the classrooms.

USE OF ICT IN CLASSROOM TEACHING.

I would like to share, how I taught my PP children using video tutorial made by myself to submit to our tutor. I don’t know how good or bad it was still I used in the class to teach one particular topic.

While going through the blogs of our friends about integration of ICT in classroom teaching and learning I came across many advantages of using ICT to teach our children. So I thought why not I will give a try with my video tutorial after competing.

 When I was assigned with the topic “The Concept of Zero” to make video tutorial from our tutor I skipped that topic thinking that I will explore my teaching using my video tutorial.

 After much struggle, I could make a simple video tutorial on the topic “The Concept of Zero” from PP mathematics. I was very eager to show it to my PP kids to teach the concept of zero.

Before the lesson, I explained the objectives and told them that I am going to teach them through my laptop. In a group, I showed the video tutorial as in the picture below. I told them to listen and watch carefully. They were so excited to see me in the video.

The class was silent until the end of my tutoring session. I repeatedly showed them, since the video was short and have enough time.




After they finished watching the video tutorial I let them do some activity. I was surprised to see that all the children did it very well. While doing the activity I could see them sharing about the pictures seen in the tutorial.

*Work done by the students after watching the video tutorials.

Lastly, children of this generation love to learn more by watching than just listening to us. So I felt that if we have enough time and expert in making video tutorial we can make video tutorial for some topics and teach them through video. There will be more advantages of showing the video tutorials on other topics too.

Tashi Yangzom