I am a local secondary school teacher. In my school, many ICT facilities were set up in this academic year, including iPad2, net books, notebook for teachers, and interactive white board. Our school hopes that students can learn in more interactive and collaborative way by using those facilities. In summer time, All teacher needed to back to school to have training course on how to use those ICT facilities. In the coming new academic year, some of the teachers who is younger and more enthusiastic have more power and generate more innovative ideas to use those ICT materials, just like role play games; online competitions, discussion in forum etc. while most of the teachers who is elder and more ‘sustainable’, they feel very worried and wondered on how to use ICT facilities. They like chalk and talk and they thrust they can teach the best students in the public exam.
I am the one who want to make use of those ICT materials on teaching and learning. In this year, I try to setup a google site for my students, create various chat room and discussion forum for student learning. I give up using powerpoint that provided by educational press and make my own teaching material that compatible with interactive white board.
During the lesson, I found that I started to change my educational pedagogy. In my lesson planning, I have to consider students’ activities rather than teaching content, because I want students to use those ICT materials, I want them try more and construct the knowledge by themselves. Although it is very time consuming, students evaluate that the lesson they take is interesting and meaningful. I believe that I am going on the right track.
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