Reflection #5 on Video lesson

 Character Comes alive 

On 17th of September I assigned class  III  children to make a video on "Character comes alive " of three minutes and the  submission of their assignment was on November  4 ,2021. This assignment was  given  to check the how they are going to make a  short video on their favorite character that comes alive by using their smart phones and send it via WeChat media . 

Some children they shot the video by using the front camera and some shot with dirty lens. The orientation of their video were captured vertically most . Then I taught the proper  way to capture the video. The ways as follow -

1. Orientation 

2. Use of both hands

3. Cleaning the lens 

4. Focusing 

Despite many redo of their video lesson they could submit the refined video on the dateline. I could learn that they still struggle to capture the video  though they can access the other apps of gaming quickly . 

This assignment would help them make a quality video henceforth, whenever they are assigned with this kind task in the future.

                                                                                                                                                                   

# 4 reflection on ICT integration

Reflection on teaching “Articles – a, an, and the”

Every teacher prepares the lesson with a hope that the delivery of lesson is as per the plan. Sometimes it so happens that our plan nearly get to a cent percent delivery owing to numerous factors that need to be consider from both the ends. Learners’ ability to grab what is taught and teacher needing to find a pace of different learners are one factor very often have to be adjusted.

My today’s lesson on ‘Articles – a, an, and the’ could be one example where planned lesson does not cater to needs of everybody. It was noticed that around 5-6 students in my class couldn’t understand the clear concept of articles and their usage. The activities given to them were one way to check and determine how well they have understood my lesson delivery. Those students could partially get the answers correct for the questions given to them. With this result I have to plan for some sort of remedy for them.

All in all, the success rate of my lesson on ‘articles’ was relatively high as most of the students’ expectation was met and the objectives of my lesson too. The lesson began by introducing ‘Articles – a, an, and the’. My burden shifted to the lighter part when some students shared that they have learned about it on YouTube and other sources. Though they have idea of the topic but practical usage was not practiced. I taught them the usage and then given activities. All students actively participated and could finish the activities within the speculated time.

# 3 reflection on ICT integration.

 

Reflection on Student’s Going Digital - (16^th October)

The world today is a technology driven and our learners are native of it. Learning is going beyond the classroom due to availability of many learning resources brought in by technology.  In fact, Information and Communication Technology (ICT) knowledge and its usage are becoming their hobby. It is however teachers and parents who must ensure that technology usage is properly guided and carefully record the kind of ICT knowledge they are getting every day.

Different medias, social apps and gaming are some dominant digital features our children have gotten into. With this domination learners are skipping some functional computer applications which have essence in their later life. It is found that technological devices built for pleasure and entertainment will never instill functional technological knowledge. So, with this intention to teach them on Microsoft office, I had class with 3A students on Microsoft (MS) Word.

I began the class by asking questions to the children about their prior knowledge on Microsoft office. It was quite shocking to see many of them though dexterous in using apps in smartphones hardly heard about it. This clearly shows our learners are missing functional ICT knowledges. Then I introduced Microsoft office and my topic was MS word. I explained them by opening the word and taught them different features. After that I made them to write about their hobby using MS word. They typed their hobby and they done it slowly. Handling keyboard and mouse was not so challenging as they had session on it during CodeMonkey classes. It was fun learning for them as I made them to type and change font, font size, color, insert clip arts etc.…

Since Microsoft word, excel, power point, paint are some essential ICT fundamentals, every child must possess skills to operate Microsoft office. I realized learners must instill skills not only to excel modern technologies but also to prioritize functional digital usage. My class on MS Word was pretty effective as they learned typing, saving and creating folders to save their works.

Technology defining today's learners

 Today's children are technology savvy. Technology is at their finger tips as they live with different kinds of tools and are easily available. The modern learning styles are changing fast. Therefore, it is must to have classroom setting to cater to the needs of our learners. the setting of every classroom must be tech-homey and a source of self - discovery.   It must provide an opportunity to explore. 

Reflection #2

 

                                               

                         

 

                              

                            # 2-- Reflection on ICT integrated lesson.

It was Thursday - the fourth period. I had substitution class in grade V. The subject and the lesson plan handed over to me was Science. The plan was integrated with power point presentation on “Life Cycle of a Frog’’. I must say that children thoroughly enjoyed the session.

I began my actual session by asking few questions to connect with the topic. Before the session started the children were very excited to see the set up of the power point.

children were wearing big smiles on their faces. 

We started our video session of “life cycle of a frog “.  While projecting the video in between I paused the video and posed few questions from the video. Unbelievable! Children could give the correct responses. Children were ardently absorbed in the video.

Classroom management was managed so well and there were no mischievous actions during the video session. I have never experienced this kind of atmosphere in this class before. If the atmosphere remained same every teacher would love to teach this class.

At the end of the video I realized that I did forget to give some activities on the topic, though it was not reflected in the plan. I could see the great impact of learning by showing videos. Children learn a lot when they watch the video despite the print in the book.

 

                                                        #1 Reflection on ICT

 

On August 18th, I had a lesson on phonetic sounds in grade III. The lesson begun with audio clip and some children could not pronounce it properly after listening to it. The reason behind was children could not pronounce words without watching video on the place of articulation. Then I made them to watch video on phonetic sounds. Children could watch and were able imitate phonetic sounds correctly.

 

I realized that the use of ICT has the greatest impact in learning. This lesson if taught without using video and audio clips would have been time consuming and might have been taught different pronunciation. Bringing ICT into the classroom these days is quintessential as it keeps students engaged and caters to the need of their learning styles.