ICT in Education
The class began with the video clip on "What does it mean to teach in the 21st century". The message actually states on how we can be a Teacher in the 21st Century Classroom. The teachers in the classes still use what can best be described as ‘Lecture’ method of teaching. Our teaching however loud enough, children turn off the teacher broadcasting channel and the valuable educational ideas are lost as a result of it.
Since we live in this 21st century world, expectation of two way communication are less. People are expected to find their own solution, but we still have same old aged teaching strategies that confuses us on engaging our digital native children more naturally. We are witnessing vast and rapid change in how our children want to learn these days. Technology had not only changed the world around us but also the mindset of children’s educational needs. As a teacher we now (if we want our bread and butter) have to ensure that the learning in the class is fun, used updated interactive strategies to cater to our individual learners no matter where they come from.To keep up the pace and built up our stamina we were therefore introduced to the following;
ICT as a informative tools.What does it mean?
Since we live in this 21st century world, expectation of two way communication are less. People are expected to find their own solution, but we still have same old aged teaching strategies that confuses us on engaging our digital native children more naturally. We are witnessing vast and rapid change in how our children want to learn these days. Technology had not only changed the world around us but also the mindset of children’s educational needs. As a teacher we now (if we want our bread and butter) have to ensure that the learning in the class is fun, used updated interactive strategies to cater to our individual learners no matter where they come from.To keep up the pace and built up our stamina we were therefore introduced to the following;
- ICT should engage our children meaningfully
- Teach skills in collecting good information
- Teachers are no longer the main source for the students.
- ICT is dominating
- Information: Finding and using information. Choosing, saving, arranging and checking information. Looking at saved work, understanding it and thinking about what could happen if there are mistakes in it.
- Media: Creating videos and flash movies.
- Communication: For example, through displays, posters, emails to friends and family.
- Collaboration: Discussing work to help develop ideas. Talking about how they could improve future work.
- Creativity: Organizing and developing ideas using text, charts, pictures, sound, etc. Planning and carrying out instructions to make things happen and then seeing how well they worked.
- Critical thinking: Looking at others work and reasoning how the activities were being carried out.
These were some of the points we discussed during the session, the participants of the class were all actually assuming it, if all the schools in our country were accessible with internet and computers. But I was preparing what if all our school children are made available to those technology. So what would be my role then? It is far more important than just providing the answers to questions. Rather, I need to be able to guide them on how to learn and filter the information so that it is useful and applicable. It will be my job to support my children as they discover their new path to mastering their skills and talents.
What are the skills that can be taught our children through ICT
Some of the points discussed in the class were;
Our curriculum designer are still at work, project like Chigphen Rigphel Project are taking shape, ministry is funding number of IT activities for schools which inspires us for making our children digital entrepreneurs while enhancing learning of science and technology. ICT are a potentially powerful tool for extending educational opportunities, at our level and at this period we can only introduce basic skills and ideas for their studies and simple class project works.
Our tutor Mr. Chenga Dorji also gave a brief talk on 21st century skill, where he mentioned that it is the ability of a person to reason effectively and critically as appropriate to the situation to overcome complex problem based on analyzed and evaluated evidences, arguments claims and beliefs.We being teachers for this century now have to find the way to teach our children how to think critically by being critical thinker and exposing them to critical situation. Find ways to problem solving by presenting our children with problems that they must solve.
ICT in Education – meaning and definition
ICT stands for Information and Communication Technology. A diverse set of technological tools and resources used to communicate and to create, disseminate, store and manage information. ICT in education focus on understanding computers and the programs. Introducing ICT in our curriculum would help children to understand how we use computers and networking systems available. Children would learn how to gather and use information, present it and share it with others.
What are the skills that can be taught our children through ICT
Some of the points discussed in the class were;
Our curriculum designer are still at work, project like Chigphen Rigphel Project are taking shape, ministry is funding number of IT activities for schools which inspires us for making our children digital entrepreneurs while enhancing learning of science and technology. ICT are a potentially powerful tool for extending educational opportunities, at our level and at this period we can only introduce basic skills and ideas for their studies and simple class project works.
Our tutor Mr. Chenga Dorji also gave a brief talk on 21st century skill, where he mentioned that it is the ability of a person to reason effectively and critically as appropriate to the situation to overcome complex problem based on analyzed and evaluated evidences, arguments claims and beliefs.We being teachers for this century now have to find the way to teach our children how to think critically by being critical thinker and exposing them to critical situation. Find ways to problem solving by presenting our children with problems that they must solve.
ICT in Education – meaning and definition
ICT stands for Information and Communication Technology. A diverse set of technological tools and resources used to communicate and to create, disseminate, store and manage information. ICT in education focus on understanding computers and the programs. Introducing ICT in our curriculum would help children to understand how we use computers and networking systems available. Children would learn how to gather and use information, present it and share it with others.
Towards the end of today’s lesson we were introduced to Teacher’s site which meets the needs of teacher during teaching. It is a place where we can learn collaboratively. The challenge for us is the introduction of computers in the schools are yet to flourish and the strategies we are learning might become outdated, as such it is our personal duty to keep our self updated. To facilitate whatever we have on ICT in education, we need to identify the barriers so that they can be overcome and stay awake.
It is a great challenge for us now to cater the students born into this digital world. If we do not provide students with opportunity to develop the 21st century skills then there will be no connection with the skills of the workplace in their later life.
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