2nd Reflection on ICT integration in T/L for the Month of August, 2019

2^nd Reflection on ICT integration in T/L for the Month of August, 2019

 On 19^th August, I have integrated ICT in teaching Dzongkha for class II.  The topic was on fruits “Shingdrey”) a short essay/story to develop the listening and speaking skills in children. The essay/story to be narrated was about “Types of fruits”. Till now, this topic was taught simply reading an essay/story by the teacher or made the students to read the essay/story written on a chart. However, this time, I thought of teaching this topic using the ICT so that the teaching won’t be a monotonous.

 To teach the topic in an interesting way, I first recorded the whole essay/story in an audio form in my own voice keeping all the necessary requirements of telling/ narrating an essay in mind. Then, I played the audio using the speaker and a mobile phone in a class and let the children listen very carefully. Several questions were prepared for the children to answer after listening to essay.

 Children were so excited to listen for essay/story because it was arranged in a unique way. All the children were asked to listened story/essay carefully.  After listening to essay/story most of the children could answer the questions asked from the topics that were discussed.  However, there were some challenges such as few children who were southern and typical Eastern Bhutanese could not catch up the words in the story/essay in detail because it was a Dzongkha story/essay and the audio was played just once. The other challenge was managing all those necessary materials such as quality speaker and quality audio recorder.

 I could prepare a lesson and was able to manage all the required materials on time as I have planned since a week before. After the question answer session, I could realize that at least I should have played the audio for two times so that all the children could understand the story/essay very well. This was my drawback this time while integrating the ICT in the Teaching Learning purpose. I will definitely improve my way of presenting when I teach similar topics using the ICT in future.  I learnt that I must not take into granted that everyone in the class has the same ability of listening skill. I learnt this because at the end of question answer session those few children wanted to listen to the story/essay ones again and they said they could not understand the story/essay well. Keeping all these in mind, I will try to present in a better way next time. The lesson was so interactive. All most all the children could express what they felt or understood about the story/essay. I was happy that I could fulfill my lesson objective.

Kinzang Dorji

(PCE06160359)

DEA-III

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Use of ICT in my classroom

On 2^nd August 2019, I had a class in VI and the subject was Social Studies during the 4^th period. I have completed the Topic seven and I actually wanted to conduct the topic revision. The topic that I have completed was “Earning a Living”. I decided to revise the particular topic by using ICT rather than revising just through the normal paper and pen test. Therefore, I thought of conducting the quiz competition amongst the group.

I prepared the quiz questions on a power point slide with animations covering the whole topic. I have also mentioned some basic rules for the conduct of group quiz. I announced the class about the quiz competition four days before and children were so excited because I said that the winner will be awarded 5 points to their group performance for the year. Children started to ask so many questions about the conduct of the quiz which a positive learning attitude shown by the students. The revision of the topic was never done in that way using the ICT facilities before.

On 7^th of August I have gathered my students in Library room where few mini computers are available in a group wise and briefed about the quiz competition and its purpose. I started the quiz for three rounds. The 1^st round was a multiple choice, 2^nd round was one word answer, 3^rd round was Lucky Dip round.

I can be sure that my children have really studied hard. To my surprise, I found my children have really shown their interest in competition. The active participation was found during course of conducting quiz. The class was found to be interested by using of ICT lesson.  The revision of the topic was done effectively. Just because of the change in strategy and incorporated ICT, the children have really studied well. The class was with full of fun and excitement. Children really enjoyed the class.

However, there was a little problem in controlling the class as everyone was so excited for the quiz. I could manage well with the support from my ADM Assistance. I could have prepared some more questions and could increase the rounds as there was some more time.

In future, I would like to continue with such practices with extra cautious and improvement in the conduct of the group quiz in the class level.

Kinzang Dorji

DEA III

(PCE 06160359)