Sunday, September 12, 2010
importance of strategy
The main goal of this blog was to stress the importance of facilitating thinking strategically among the students. There can be different types and a numbers of tools used during any one lesson. The ICT classroom where I am currently doing my practicum, students enjoy a one-to-one desktop computer to do their work. Just because a teacher works in a one-to-one school or classroom does not mean that every learning experience should make use of any or all of those computers. There should, I understand, be times when all the computers should be set aside as the group explores an important topic or issue. At other times each student may be working independently and separately on a computer or a paper pencil tool. We sometimes ask students to work in pairs and trios — sometimes in quartets and sextets. There are no set rules or tools to dictate what works best - working smarter is what needs to be developed, I guess.
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In this day and age when we talk about 'Strategy' and 'students' engagement' in a classroom evironment the foremost things that come to our mind are e-learning strategies and use of ICT equipments particularly in an ICT classroom.
ReplyDeleteToday I taught first lesson of my unit plan and found that students showed least interest to participate in the brainstorming activity and further they were very bored to listen to me for more than 2 minutes. Luckily I had a plan B and had students to actually write their views in Microsoft Word - the majority of the class participated happily.
So by making use of the ICT systems the same results were achieved.
ICT systems may not be used in disciplines like English, Mathametics and Social Sciences but even teachers from those disciplines are quite keen to learn ways to use e-learning strategies in their classerooms to engage students in interactive activites. Like Teachers expect students to be participative and innovative, Students expect
Teachers to be creative. It is just the sheer inevitability of ICT systems that had inculcated in our society with the advent of Internet and the programs and gadgetery equpments to access it.
I also believe that due to widespread availability of computers and networks, stationary is dying a slow death. If i ever ask a student to write something on a piece of a paper, this student looks at my face in a way if i have just asked him to
dig the Everest and find the fossils before he could start this activity.