# 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.