2nd blog for October

The application of ICT can take many forms and has the capability to transform the way teaching and learning occurs. The contemporaneous use of multimedia and computers allows the improvement of new pedagogical strategies involving lively and interactive learning. So, on date 15th of October, I taught class V, social studies. The topic I taught was our family history. In this lesson we had quiz completion where I prepared the question on ppt. The children were alert and very interactive in the activity.

Next, I prepared another ppt to disseminate the information on the topic with the help of lots of images. It was quit enriching lesson that I saw all the children participating actively and the class was lively. 

The students were given an activity where they need to draw their own family tree using MS office word. Actually I have planned to give this activity in group, but since, all the children were eager to fiddle the computer, they wanted to do individually. They were really enjoying doing the activity. And the most interesting thing I have observed was, they didn't want the teachers, instead they were teaching each other and did an incredible work.

Finally, they presented their family tree with their own explanations. It was a great lesson and there were lots of interactions between the students.

5th ICT integration

On date 3rd October,  I taught class PP, English and the topic was parts of plant ( integrated from EVS). Since it was a block period of 50 minutes each, I designed varieties of activities to make my class lively. The first was a field trip, a short field trip, around the flower garden in the school campus. I asked them to observe the plants in the garden. After reaching in the class, I asked them to tell what ever they saw during their field trip.

Then I took them to the IT room. Since the students of class PP were visiting the IT lab, I found very difficult to control them. But with the help of the IT in charge, I could manage to settle them down. There they are taught how to brows Google to search for information. Since our topic was on Parts of plant, I wrote the title on the white board and made them to type in the Google search. Unfortunately, due to some problem, internet didn't work well. Still I didnt gave up. With the help of some colleagues,  I borrowed smart phones from the staff and made them to do Google search. 

The activities that were done after this were amazing. Of course, I had a tough time teaching the students how to handle the gadgets and even I was trying to teach them how to browse Google, but the out come of the lesson was great. Children were able to draw the parts of plant levelling them correctly. 

Integration of ICT in our lesson can create conducive environment and at the same time it's quite hectic for us, especially with class PP children. I thought it's their first time experiencing this type of activity and its obvious  because small children are by nature restless, but I am positive that next time if I plan any activity on ICT integration and take them to IT lab they would behave much better.