# 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.