ICT for Meaningful Learning

When it comes to learning, I strongly believe in quality and not quantity. Although I may have only 3 responses to my post, it should not discount the fact that I did learn from the views of my peers.

One of my suggestions that managed to get a response from my peers was careful pre-planning of her lesson.

Razali pointed out that a teacher should not only teach but must also learn, even from her students and I agree with him. Since Mrs. Xing knows that she is not particularly IT-savvy, she should have sought the help of IT lab technicians to ensure that all the computers are in full working orders so that none of her students will have to share computers to do their work. She could have also sought the help from the more IT-savvy students in her class to help their classmates with simple troubleshooting.

Atika pointed out that Mrs. Xing was probably at a ‘trial and error’ stage. Although Mrs. Xing is new at incorporating IT into her lessons, she should have been more prepared in terms of anticipating how the class would turn out and what are the possible problems that might arise. Although a small part of me wishes to strongly disagree with Atika’s view, I reminded myself that to err is human and no lesson is perfect. We teachers should frequently gather feedback from our students regarding our lessons and then work on the flaws to ensure that the next lesson is more successful than the previous.
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