6^th Reflection- October (2019)

Class: VI

Subject: Social Studies

Topic: Soil Conservation

Period: 7^th

Date: 17^th October, 2019

ICT is impacting on how education is delivered and how students learn in the Bhutanese education system. The integration of ICT in teaching and learning significantly have an impact on the developmental in acquisition of language digitally.

In brief, the application of ICT can take many forms and has the capability to revolutionize the way teaching and learning occurs. The concurrent use of multimedia and computers allows the improvement of new pedagogical strategies involving lively and interactive learning.

So, I carried out the lesson on the use of computers and searching instructional facts from the google. The class VI children had been assigned a work to design a poster in the Microsoft to create awareness on the conservation of soil. The children were given hands on practice in the usage of Microsoft word, typing some phrases and accessing educational data from the google using the internet.  

The children were directed to look for some captions and the most appropriate images from the google. They accessed the facts from the google and pasted downloaded pictures into the Microsoft word. Then children had been asked to design a sample poster on their own using the educational information and images downloaded from the google.

The children were inspired, prompted, stimulated, motivated and maintained genuine interest in doing the tasks. At the end, some children have created a good sample poster and many children did a commendable job on their own using the google.  As a result, this act facilitated practices and drills in the usage of the computer, google and internet.

5^th Reflection- October (2019)

            School with sufficient ICT resources achieved better results than those that are not well-equipped. There is a significant improvement on learners’ performances. Finally, teachers become more convinced that educational achievements of pupils are due to good ICT use.

            So, I had Geography lesson on “Natural resources” with the Class VII students on dated 2.10.2019. I managed smartphones from the teacher colleagues. The children were given hands on practice to use Google in searching useful educational information. The phones were distributed in each group. The students were directed towards the use of smartphones in viewing the types of natural resources. Children were asked to access the information about natural resources. After having accessed the information on the topic, they were given to discuss in the group and share to the whole class.

            In the second activity, they were asked to explore the differences between ‘renewable and non-renewable resources.’ Within a short period of time, children have accessed the required information and asked few groups to read and share to the whole class. It made the lesson more fun and lively. This is one ICT application to teach difficult concept effectively. I found this application is handy and very educational since, they can explore the educational information as directed.

            Thus, smartphones for students helped them considerably to prepare for the lesson by enhancing their learning process.  Smartphones are not only useful for students but are also very useful for teachers. They can easily access the information just by a click. The concept on the type of natural resources are not explained in the book. Through the use of smartphones children could get the idea of topic as shown below. 

Use of varied ICT application like smartphones have made learning easy as children can search helpful content than going through pages of book.

One minor drawback was, children had some challenges in selecting the best and suitable information related to the topic. However, rest of the lesson went smoothly as planned.