REFLECTION ON INFORMATION COMMUNICATION AND TECHNOLOGY

I just learned to use IT only after enrolling in the DE Program but after attending the ICT class this year, I felt it was an enriching experience for me. Although I know how ICT has reformed our lifestyle and how it has helped me in this 21st-century world but lack of interest and time constraint withheld me from learning. However, this year it is a golden opportunity for me as I could learn how to use ICT as an informative tool. It is ourselves who need to change our attitude towards learning. This time with the knowledge of ICT, I felt that I can do a lot to enhance my teaching in order to make a lively class.

ICT is very helpful and one of the “must to” learn knowledge in this twenty-first century. ICT is surly a knight in shining white armor in this growing modernized, world. I am not just saying this out of blue but from my experienced After joining DE and taking the course on ICT, I learned a lot about ICT and it is a pretty helpful tool to use not only in our teaching but also in our daily lives. After learning ICT and using ICT, it made my work a lot easier and a lot more efficient. I was able to do my duty efficiently and smartly. It not helped my students to understand the lesson but also made them interested in attending my class.

I have been using Google as a search engine so far but under the erudite ICT tutor, I learned beside google there are so many other search engines such as Ask, Lycos, Northern light, AltaVista, Dogpile and Metacrawler. The most important thing about the ICT module is to set up a blog where we can share our views and get an opinion from others in order to learn and enhance our learning. Before, when I hear about blogs, I wondered what they were and how it worked. After creating a blog and posting on it, I found it quite helpful to use blogs. It helps to get feedback, opinions from other fellow mates and helps us to put our idea in social media.

Then I stumbled upon simulation. I learned about simulation, learned how to make it and use it.

Now I have full confidence that I can make my teaching and learn more effective because I have learned simulations where I can develop very beautiful teaching-learning materials that can motivate students in learning better. I use it and is proving me helpful and useful every the time I use it.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1JTsSir1sNxld9pRd-bTu4GPsvj2YAl1E

(above link is an example of simulation learned in PCE)

I was also very fortune to have got the chance to learn about making video tutorials. Before when I saw other video tutorials, I wondered how they made it but now have learnt how to make video tutorials using Camtasia, it is very helpful especially when I am on leave due to some work, I could just make a video tutorial about tie lesson and give it to the substitute, they would show the tutorial to the students and the students can still learn even without my presence.

ICT is a very helpful tool and an aid to our teaching-learning. It helps us create a new curriculum and make our class interesting. It helps students to learn the lesson efficiently and effectively. So we should opt for ICT and use it in our daily life and in our profession to make it worth doing it.

Therefore, last but not least I would like to whole heartily thank my ICT tutor for teaching us how to use information communication and technology in our daily teaching and learning processes as I mentioned above. Thank you for teaching us patiently.

lesson through wechat

In this blog, I am going to share my past lesson with my students. Since I am teaching class PP maths only I could not integrate ICT with them. So I am sharing here what I did last year with my class VI students.

In school, homework is one of the things that students hate the most. Not all but most of them don’t like homework and always forget to do so. Even if they wanted to do it, they forget about it when they reach home. It is also one of the most challenging parts for the teachers too. Homework is a part of the curriculum and we teachers give our students homework so that they learn and study the lesson learned in the class at school hours but the students don’t want them.

It was challenging for me to make all my students do homework. I taught class 6, section ‘A’ & ‘B’, I gave them homework but they all always used to give a deaf ear to homework and didn’t do it. I tried various methods to make them do homework, I even went to the extent of beating them but nothing worked. I was at the verge of giving up on them, suddenly an idea clicked into my mind. Then in the PT-meeting I made a WeChat group with ID of my students’ parents. Then whenever I gave them homework, I reminded them through the WeChat group through their parents and made sure they all do their homework on time. After using that method which is a form of ICT, all of my students started doing their homework and homework completion rate was always 100% from that on.Moreover, when the examinations were nearing, I thought of giving my students to solve some of the past question papers as a revision and practice but the number of the student was too large. I possibly couldn’t give each of them a copy of the questions. So I clicked the picture of the question papers and sent it in the WeChat group. From there, the students copied the questions and would bring to the class and we would discuss and solve the questions. Due to that, we could revise the whole syllabus and my students performed incredibly better than other sections.
Using ICT to teach is a very helpful and reliable method of teaching in this fast-growing, developing the twenty-first century. We should all develop the habit of using ICT as an aid in our teaching, changing the age-old method of teaching and going with the time for the better of both our students and us.