Reflection on ICT integrated lesson for September month, 2021

Lesson information

It was on 14^th September, I used one of my ICT integrated lessons to teach class III students on how to develop short and simple paragraph using the questionnaire or by students themselves in my English lesson. This lesson took almost a week to full fill my set objectives as most of the student come from literally backward family. ICT integration in our teaching lesson develops or improves engagement of students actively throughout the whole lesson and also students can understand and retain content knowledge for longer period as we know and remember better what we learn or do things by seeing and doing. 

This is because children of today’s world are more inclined towards technology where they look for different opportunities to make it more fun and enjoyable in their daily learning and learning things in different ways alerts physically and mentally. Before my actual lesson I made class to watch short video clip on how to develop or write short and simple paragraph of their own. All students were very much attracted by the video clip and found active participation by all the students compared to the lesson without ICT integration. Then, I started to teach my real content of the lesson by presenting power point slides to explain and make them clearer with what they have seen in the video clip and to make connection with lesson activity. Prior the lesson activity, whole class was made clear with the content information by displaying the set of examples as depicted below.

My Parents

My parents are loving parents. My father works in the office. He goes to his office daily. My mother is a house wife. She is very kind and helps me in washing my school uniform and packing lunch every day. Sometimes go for a picnic with my parents. I also study and play with my father when my father is free from his office work. My parents are very much caring to me and I am very much lucky to have such parents. I love them so much and wish to live with them throughout my life.

After my presentation using projector I realize more active participation from students’ part thus, integration of information and communication technology (ICT) in our lesson motivates learners to access more information, promote interaction and communication, and enhance digital literacy skills at a very young age of schooling. Both teachers and students become aware that the effective teaching and learning become successful learning activities when there is active participation in learning as learners develop a set of skills necessary to carry out lesson alone and in collaboration with others and in their own professional learning. Students were made to develop paragraph base on the given questionnaire and finally one from every were made to report to the whole class. In this way students will be able to support their friends in raising awareness of the importance of integrating technology, tackling obstacles that might currently hinder effective integration of ICT in their learning contex

Merits of ICT integrated lesson

        Both teachers and students will find learning livelier and more educative by using available ICT tools and open educational resources for language teaching and learning that become aware of their needs in terms of continual professional development and learning. It is also important that the use of ICT is introduced and supported in a sustainable way and in a range of pedagogical approaches that promote lifelong learning due to change of curriculum and the education system.

 De-merits of ICT integrated lesson

Every advantage has disadvantages and Just like any other technology, ICT too has certain limitations and restrictions in using in our lesson teaching.  While most of the teachers teach students by integrating ICT in the lesson there are always challenges to overcome. Challenges like Misleading and misguiding information from irrelevant sources. And there is big danger that learners will totally forget our traditional method of learning and inclined towards ICT world losing the whole essences our rich culture and tradition. Sometimes integrating ICT in the lesson results in time consumption due to power fluctuation and poor internet facilities during learning through exploration.

 Future Improvements

Due to the fact that students are familiar with technology and they will learn better within technology-based environment, the issue of ICT integration in schools, specifically in the classroom is vital. This is because, the use of technology in education contributes a lot in the pedagogical aspects in which the application of ICT will lead to effective learning with the help and supports from ICT element. In addition, ICT provides the help and complementary supports for both teachers and students where it involves effective learning with the help of the computers to serve the purpose of learning.

 Relevant documents

1.     1.  ppt. lesson

2.     2.  short video clip on the topic

3.      3. lesson video record

4.     4.  photos 

  
view my power point presentation        Glimpse of my teaching

Tshering Wangdi DEA III B (061803950)

 

Reflection on ICT integrated lesson for August month, 2021

Lesson information

One of my ICT integrated lessons for class III English was taught on 16^th August 2021 about types of letters that they should be able to write in class III.  Before explaining on how to write personal letter, class was made clear with types of letters and its features. 

In this 21^st century education system, ICT has greatest impact in every field for both teachers and students. For teachers it helps in delivering the lesson through different modes whereby students get more interacted and engaged into the lessons due to various opportunities. For this particular lesson I made students to watched short video clip on types of letters and how to write personal letter. Students were very much interested and attracted by the video clip and found active participation in watching the video clip. After the video clip session, I presented my power point slides to explain and make them clearer with what they have seen in the video. 

First and foremost, I explained the types of letters that they should know in class three. I explained what formal and informal (personal) letters are. Then, I informed the class about the day’s topic “Personal letter” letter to our friends, families, parents and relatives.  I first explained the features of writing informal or personal letter thereafter I related my sample letter with that of the sample that they have watched in the earlier video, finally, I made children to copy the sample letter and informed groups to come up with new sample referring to the sample displayed on the power point screen or to the example that they have copied in their note book. On the whole lessons become livelier and more interesting if our lesson is integrated with ICT.

Merits of ICT integrated lesson

In today’s classroom teaching and learning, teachers and students as a main consumer of ICT, we all strive for the one dream – the dream of a connected life and easier ways of doing day to daily works. This makes ICT a lifestyle choice for much of the learning process. In addition, this lifestyle choice is changing the way we communicate, increasing the rate of consumerism, and changing how we interact and gather information at the fastest rate.  ICT has invaded and transformed many aspects of our lives besides classroom teaching and learning to the extent that we live in an environment that is dominated by technology around the globe.

 De-merits of ICT integrated lesson

As there is always disadvantages after advantages, let me share some of the challenges encounter during lesson. At times children are found too dependent to the internet for any types of learning activities which results lack of reading and writing habits unlike the traditional system. At times students download whole information from the net and leads to wrong information and plagiarism. If we are to assign ICT integrated lesson to students as a home work student from low-income family may not afford computer, smart phones and data package to make access to the internet. So, these are some challenges our students may face at this period of time.

 Future Improvement 

In sum, not all types of lesson can be incorporated with ICT. It can be best use if a lesson topic and activities demand for particular period of time, where students can make good use to provide productive results. For lower classes students they should be trained to use available resources of technology to communicate and collaborate with friends and teachers efficiently otherwise they will land up in wasting time and resources.

 Relevant documents

   

sample personal letter

Real Classroom Teaching

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