1. How technology is going to affect how your students are going to be learning
2. How you as a teacher will be learning.
After attending your class, I have realized some important insights. In my opinion, the use of technology in primary school teaching and learning session is effective because it integrates the latest technology into the existing curriculum to be taught to the school children. In this way, the teacher provides pupils with exposure to the technology that is available in the real world. Besides that it also makes the lesson more interesting and lively as for example by the use of animation or special effects as teaching aids during the teaching and learning session in the classroom. It will be easier for the pupils to understand the content of the lesson as well as enable the teacher to sustain pupils’ interest. As far as I am concerned kids have short time span, hopefully by the use of technology will enable to prolong their time span. This can be done when they are really interested in the lesson.
However, there are several flaws too that I had identified. Apart from the advantages side, technology has its drawback as for example, if there is no electricity then the teacher cannot use whatever he or she had prepared on the computer during the teaching session in the classroom. By the end of the day, he or she has to fall back to the traditional methods by using paper and chalk to teach. Supposedly the teacher should always have a back up plan in order to cope with anything that might happen.
How me as a teacher learning?
Concerning myself who owned a very basic computer skill, I will have to learn a great deal to be well equipped with ICT skills as it is becoming a vital knowledge in this era. From my observation, not many teachers possess the knowledge and skills in ICT. This is very glaring especially in the rural area. The teacher is still using the traditional chalk and blackboard method to teach which I think is old fashioned and makes the lesson boring. Sometimes, the teacher intends to incorporate technology in their lesson but somehow they cannot use the technology such as LCD to project the slide due to the lack of these facilities in school. In my opinion, to overcome this, the teacher have to be trained by the expert continuously in order to ensure that they are well equipped with the latest IT knowledge and skills. Government should also upgraded the rural school with these gadgets in order to make the teaching and learning much more meaningful and captivating in the future.
Saturday, July 12, 2008
reflection
After attending your class, I have realized some important insights. In my opinion, the use of technology in primary school teaching and learning session is effective because it integrates the latest technology into the existing curriculum to be taught to the school children. In this way, the teacher provides pupils with exposure to the technology that is available in the real world. Besides that it also makes the lesson more interesting as for example by the use of animation or special effects as teaching aids during the teaching and learning session in the classroom. It will be easier for the pupils to understand the concepts and skills as well as enable the teacher to sustain pupils’ interest.
However, there are several flaws too that I had identified. Apart from the advantages side, technology has its drawback as for example, if there is no electricity then the teacher cannot use whatever he or she had prepared on the computer during the teaching session in the classroom. In the end he or she has to fall back to the traditional methods by using paper and chalk to teach. Supposedly the teacher should always have a back up plan in order to cope with anything that might happen.
Other than that, as far as I am concerned not many teachers possess the knowledge and skills in ICT. This is very glaring especially in the rural area. The teacher is still using the traditional chalk and blackboard method to teach. Sometimes, the teacher intend to incorporate technology in their lesson but somehow they cannot use the technology such as LCD to project the slide due to the lack of these facilities in school. To overcome this, the teacher have to be trained by the expert continuously in order to ensure that they are well equipped with the latest IT knowledge and skills. Government should also upgraded the rural school with these gadgets in order to make the teaching and learning much more meaningful and efficient.
However, there are several flaws too that I had identified. Apart from the advantages side, technology has its drawback as for example, if there is no electricity then the teacher cannot use whatever he or she had prepared on the computer during the teaching session in the classroom. In the end he or she has to fall back to the traditional methods by using paper and chalk to teach. Supposedly the teacher should always have a back up plan in order to cope with anything that might happen.
Other than that, as far as I am concerned not many teachers possess the knowledge and skills in ICT. This is very glaring especially in the rural area. The teacher is still using the traditional chalk and blackboard method to teach. Sometimes, the teacher intend to incorporate technology in their lesson but somehow they cannot use the technology such as LCD to project the slide due to the lack of these facilities in school. To overcome this, the teacher have to be trained by the expert continuously in order to ensure that they are well equipped with the latest IT knowledge and skills. Government should also upgraded the rural school with these gadgets in order to make the teaching and learning much more meaningful and efficient.
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
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