Lesson with and without ICT Integration:

Lesson with and without ICT Integration:

A study conducted by Blanskat, Blamire, Kefala (2006) in national, international, and European schools  to draw an evidence regarding the advantages of ICT in school learning achievement, it has been  found out that ICT has positive impact on students’ performances. In this context, Education ministry in collaboration with colleges of education is trying their best to let we teachers to realize the roles of ICT in modern teaching and learning process. Therefore, we as a teacher need to give our students a platform to explore and adopt as per the demand of the environment.

Fig:Topic Introduction

The lesson I taught was on “Human Transport System” in class V. On 9^th August, I taught the topic without integrating ICT, however, after receiving video tutorial topic on the same topic on 16^th August, I made power-point presentation using ICT facility and also by down loading youtube presentation on same topic, I  re-taught the topic as an extended lesson.  I found that ICT integration lesson was unexpectedly different in terms of participation and learning on 22^nd August, 2019.

Fig:Human heart

So after having taught same topic using two different modalities (traditional method and ICT integrated method), I would like to reflect on the achievements and draw backs of using ICT modalities for future reference.   I could see the vast difference in children’s learning comparing to traditional method of teachers teaching using hard copy teaching learning aids. While through the ICT integrated teaching, students were found very active and energetic throughout the lesson. They are overwhelmed when they see the power point presentation on functions of human transport system and also brief video tutorial on it through YouTube. The classroom was lively as students see the functions of human transportation system via video as it is a rare event for them to see the video to teach the concept. I also used energizer clips in between the lesson to break their boredom to increase the learning efficiency when activity instructions are on the screen. As mentioned earlier, it just not helped in increasing the curiosity of children when teaching but also it reduced the work load and hear talk process.

    

 Despite having uncountable benefits of integrating ICT in teaching learning process, limited resources,  transportation of electronic from one classroom to another after every period and lack of IT expertise were some of the manageable challenges that we have in schools. None the less, I started to believe that ICT really plays a vital role in making our lesson better and achievable.

 

References :

Meenakshi(2013) Importance of ICT in Education PP 03-08.Retrived from

        http://www.iosrjournals.org/iosr-jrme/papers/Vol-1%20Issue 4/B0140308.pdf?id=1681

The challenges of illiteracy and ICT training in Bhutan ( 2013 June 21) Retrieved from

               http://www.ictworks.org/2013/06/21/the-challenges-of-illiteracy-and-ict-training- bhutan/   

Yves Punie, Dieter Zinnbauer and Marcelino Cabrera (2006) A Review of the Impact of ICT on

       Learning. Retrieved from  http://ftp.jrc.es/EURdoc/JRC47246.TN.pdf

Learning days of a week through ICT

When I was serving in a  remote school of Denchukha Primary school (Samtse), despite my effort to deliver lesson in the best possible way, the pace of teaching learning process was  affected owing to  lack of ICT. This is because ICTs plays the potential to accelerate, enrich, and deepen skills to motivate and engage students. Now with the availability of the resource in central school, I can generate meaningful and engaging learning experiences to my students; strategically using ICT to enhance learning. I realize that my students have developed new found joy in learning through independent enquiry which can occur due to innovative and appropriate use of ICT.

On the other hand, brain-based research also shows that the period from birth to the age of eight is a critical phase. So primary students of class I are of age 7-8 which particularly falls in the researched category and the quality of pre-primary education need to be enhanced for them to perform better in various fields of mathematics, arts and languages. Therefore integrating ICT is one of the strategies that can be replaced the traditional way of teaching and learning processes.

On 5th August, I taught a rhyme titled ‘Days of the week in class I (revision lesson).  I conducted the lesson in school conference hall. The lesson started with the recap of the previous lesson learnt, followed by video screening.

Before I showed the video clip on the rhyme, I have instructed children to first listen and watch carefully. After that I allowed them to sing and do enact simultaneously. While I monitored children’s dance I could make out they really enjoyed my lesson. I was very much satisfied that the lesson went very fruitfully and children enjoyed the lesson a lot.

Finally, I realized that the lesson through ICT saved not only time but also resources. I could reuse plan and the materials which are saved using ICT facility.