Reflection on ICT

When I was in primary school, I did not see my teachers using any ICT communicative tools in teaching. The reasons for not integrating ICT in teaching could be, may be due to lack of facilities and one reason could be because of lack of knowledge on how to integrate it. So, here it infers that integrating ICT in the classroom is not merely to bring any technologies and showing what are in it.

ICT integration during my primary school

We have to integrate in such a way that it assist teaching, make classroom environment enthusiastic, motivate students to learn more and most importantly we have to make to the condition that, if we take away the technology it would diminish the quality of the lesson. Teachers in integrated-technology school will have an even greater responsibility for managing their classes and planning effective instruction. Therefore to make the integration of ICT in teaching more reliable and authentic, it is important to give more focus on it. Furthermore we should not be oblivious of the fact that there are immense benefits of integrating ICT in teaching if used appropriately.

Role of teacher integration of ICT

ICT integration nowadays

The link below shows how the teachers integration of ICT in classroom. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uSdItdT0ZQ

To share about my experience of using ICT in college I benefited from using ICT  in learning, sharing, understanding, complementing and clarifying even out of the learning environment. It also provides space for me to search, read, think and respond authentically and critically. In which it helps to develop and enhance my skills such as critical thinking and searching relevant article to support my opinion.The  principles design and the module FIT (101) has really helped me doing assignment in college especially in making power point presentation. Now I can make use of multimedia, animation and graphic organizer to involve the audience effectively in the presentation.

Power point before

power point after

I also exploit on VLE discussion forum, I pose or answer other questions based on the concept learned in the classroom. If I have doubt and need clarification, I ask questions for my friends to share their respond/ understanding which help me to improve my learning skills as well. In that way we either exchange or co-construct the meaning with thoroughly interaction even outside the classroom. We write our own thinking anytime and anywhere. After that we sometime recommend our friends or clarify doubts by asking questions.

When I was in third semester I have posted the questions in VLE but I didn’t receive any reaction. As a result, I dropped my eagerness to identify others outlook or attitude towards the questions. Though it posses negative impact it is in the hand of one who integrate in the classroom and take daily basis reflection. Now I think that assessment and follow up activity matters a lot in order to take place effective learning.