Final post

Summing up what I have learn for the whole course and practical and also my life in BECH!

For the past 5 semester it has been a big and huge learning experience for me. I have actually benefited a lot from the program. I came to understand children better day by day, a better view and understanding of how they learn and how they act. Each professional practice that I gone through, gives new experiences that are beyond expectation. The previous EDC3100 professional experience was rather a good exposure to use ICT in classroom, a preview of how futuristic education might be.

ICT and pedagogy has opened up my eyes to see the wonders technology can do in the classroom and yet not replacing the main role of the teacher. This little pieces of machines could evolve and be a better machine for better learning process. Children now and the future will benefit more from this. For example, 20 books cramped in an Ipad is such a convenience!

The After Prac

The after prac! It's quite a good thing knowing that I am not the only one facing difficulties with the integration of ICT lesson into the classroom! With Megan and Kym both are also struggling for ideas on how to carry out certain lessons. Thinking of an ICT to integrate could be simple but the way to carry out the lesson so that it will give maximum benefits to the children as well as helping them to learn things better and learn better things, that is one big challenge. Aside from that would be the classroom management, whereby it does take a lot to get the class in order before you can actually teach something. Being new and temporary to the class they tend to ignore and bully the teacher that are on practical. How useful and unfair can that be? Nonetheless surviving through is indeed a blessing and of course we are looking forward for more ICT integration in future!

ICT-Less Day!

The other day the whole school that we had practical with had this field trip to the farm. It was one of the time whereby the teacher and students are not using any ICT to implement any lesson. Surprisingly lessons and activities without ICT can also be fun for the children. I come to see that ICT can indeed enhance learning for the young ones but at the same time, children are social beings that can learn with their peers and not only technology. We have to keep in mind why we have ICT integrated within the learning classroom that is so that we can improve and enhance learning better and not replace the role of the teacher. As I was watching this video last weekend about a family that all their 3 kids have ipad and iphones to use at all times, then one day they took it off for a month, their kids began to learn useful things like sewing and etc.