4th Reflection on ICT (September month-2019)

4^th Reflection

On September 18th  2019, I have prepared video lesson using Camtasia to teach the students of class VI about the types of family in the real classroom situation.

The children have learnt about the family in class V. This time they are taught types of family and the relationship.  Thus, for effective delivery and in the interest of time I have integrated video tutorial. I have shown video tutorial on the types of family and the main objective was to let children understand the type of family. The type of family i.e., ‘nuclear family and extended family’ were projected with appropriate examples using the LCD projector. One great advantage was, it can be played and paused any time in between to further supplement the points which were left out.  

Teaching them using video tutorial and further supplementing the lesson by the teacher was found very successful. Children were so interested to learn when ICT has been integrated in the daily lesson. The children’s interest in learning helped them to learn better and effectively. I have found that employing such ICT application has truly changed the face of lesson delivery. Classroom with such digital learning tools greatly influence the teaching and learning processes. Thus, I am truly convinced that in this modern era, ICT plays pivotal role in teaching learning.

However, there were few challenges such as that I had to show them the video tutorial for several times because there wasn’t much interaction. I had to explain again and again on what was shown on the video tutorial. This consumed little bit of time. The greatest impact of using ICT in the lesson was that children learnt differently with outmost interest.

Class VI

Subject: Social Studies

Topic: Settlement

ICT Application used: LCD Projector

Date: 6^th September, 2019

Third Reflection

One new way and the most predominant latest ICT application is LCD projector.
The LCD projector offers ways of reaching students in different ways. It allows the teacher to interact with students better, to use a different form of teaching and to provide more entertaining ways to teach and get the lesson objectives and facts across.

Thus, on 6^th September, 2019 I have employed projector in my lesson to teach about “Types of Settlements” in Class VI Social Studies. It has helped the communication by expanding the image of the computer screen to be large enough for a room full of students to see. It also enabled teachers to create bulleted PowerPoint presentations or other highly organized notes for the class. With the use of projectors in the classroom, my students could take better notes with the ability to discern what information I have displayed are most useful to them.

With the advent of projector in the classroom, teachers can do away with the use of chalk and chalkboard unlike in the past.  Rather than writing notes across a board, teachers can make use of PowerPoint presentations and images as teaching tools through the use of projectors.

Consequently, teachers and students alike find projectors to be useful classroom devices. Additionally, my students could ask me to repeat a slide on the missed information. So, with this approach I felt that this is the most powerful teaching tool. By using projectors, teachers can more easily prepare all notes prior to class for easy presentation. We also spend less time repeating or rewriting information that is now accessible with a simple click.

Thus, using LCD projector provides educators to reach students with multiple approaches. I am happy to observe that my students enjoyed seeing, hearing and interacting with technology rather than simply reading a textbook for listening to a lecture. They could participate in real-time and interactive activities.

So, LCD Projector has played pivotal role in delivering the lesson content through images and on the other hands it helped to save time for both teacher and students. I deeply realized that such application is transformational tool which, when used appropriately, can promote the shift to a learner-centered environment.