ENHANCED SCHOOL EXPERIENCE:
PREPARATORY TASK FOR ICT FOR MEANINGFUL LEARNING
Enhanced School Experience: Classroom Observations of ICT Use
School Name: St Gabriel's Secondary School
Class: 1N2, 70mins
Enhanced School Experience: Classroom Observations of ICT Use
School Name: St Gabriel's Secondary School
Class: 1N2, 70mins
Profile of the class: (For e.g., the students’ academic abilities, stream and other characteristics)
- Secondary 1 Normal Academic Class
- Various learning abilities
- Short attention span (Consistently has to be engaged with activities)
Subject: ART
What ICT tools are used in the lesson?
- Secondary 1 Normal Academic Class
- Various learning abilities
- Short attention span (Consistently has to be engaged with activities)
Subject: ART
What ICT tools are used in the lesson?
- Powerpoint
- Youtube
- Visualizer
- Handphones
- Facebook
- Youtube
- Visualizer
- Handphones
Describe how ICT is used for teaching and learning in the lesson.
Powerpoint
Teaching: The art teacher started the lesson introduction by using Powerpoint. She has included images from various artists and their techniques to explain to students of how these textures are achieved and the advantages of applying textures in their artworks.
Learning: Through these visually colourful images, students are exposed to artworks done by the great masters to contemporary artists.
Youtube video clip
Teaching: A 3 minutes short video clip is incorporated into the powerpoint to engage the students with visuals and audio to demonstrate how to create textures using paint.
Learning: Students' attention are captured by this short clip as it was visually interesting with accompanying audio.
Teaching: The art teacher started the lesson introduction by using Powerpoint. She has included images from various artists and their techniques to explain to students of how these textures are achieved and the advantages of applying textures in their artworks.
Learning: Through these visually colourful images, students are exposed to artworks done by the great masters to contemporary artists.
Youtube video clip
Teaching: A 3 minutes short video clip is incorporated into the powerpoint to engage the students with visuals and audio to demonstrate how to create textures using paint.
Learning: Students' attention are captured by this short clip as it was visually interesting with accompanying audio.
Visualizer
Teaching: The teacher displays hands-on techniques so that students have a better grasp of how to achieve another form of texture-making. For example, the teacher uses a 2B pencil and demonstrates the 'transferring' technique by placing an object underneath a piece of paper and starts to shade on top of the paper.
Learning: Students are more interested to learn through live demonstration and will practice on the spot with this technique.
Teaching: The teacher displays hands-on techniques so that students have a better grasp of how to achieve another form of texture-making. For example, the teacher uses a 2B pencil and demonstrates the 'transferring' technique by placing an object underneath a piece of paper and starts to shade on top of the paper.
Learning: Students are more interested to learn through live demonstration and will practice on the spot with this technique.
Handphone Cameras
Teaching: Their classroom activity was to form themselves into groups and move around the school environment to captures images related to their theme, which is Textures. Each student will have a role to play in this group, i.e.; One will be appointed as the leader to ensure that everyone does their role efficiently. Another student will use his handphone camera to capture these images. The 3rd student will upload the chosen image online and lastly, one will comment on images uploaded by other groups.
Learning: Most of the students will learn the process of capturing images through capturing data through handphones'cameras, uploading these images online and as well as teamwork.
Online assignment: Facebook
Teaching: The captured images will be uploaded onto Facebook group page that was created by the teacher for this class. After uploading, students will do peer evaluations. Finally the teacher will access the images and the groups’ efforts to grade them. The teacher will show the class the images taken by all the groups in their next lesson to explain to them how these images can be improved.
Learning: Students will explore and use Facebook as their online assignment. Facebook is such a popular social media platform and this will enhance the students’ exposure to this platform.
Teaching: Their classroom activity was to form themselves into groups and move around the school environment to captures images related to their theme, which is Textures. Each student will have a role to play in this group, i.e.; One will be appointed as the leader to ensure that everyone does their role efficiently. Another student will use his handphone camera to capture these images. The 3rd student will upload the chosen image online and lastly, one will comment on images uploaded by other groups.
Learning: Most of the students will learn the process of capturing images through capturing data through handphones'cameras, uploading these images online and as well as teamwork.
Online assignment: Facebook
Teaching: The captured images will be uploaded onto Facebook group page that was created by the teacher for this class. After uploading, students will do peer evaluations. Finally the teacher will access the images and the groups’ efforts to grade them. The teacher will show the class the images taken by all the groups in their next lesson to explain to them how these images can be improved.
Learning: Students will explore and use Facebook as their online assignment. Facebook is such a popular social media platform and this will enhance the students’ exposure to this platform.
General Observation:How do teachers in the school feel about the use of ICT for teaching and learning? (For this question, you may want to speak to the HOD/ICT and other teachers you know in the school)
The HOD/ ICT feels that ICT is very important to be incorporated into syllabus as it is very beneficial for students' learning and therefore, makes it a point to ensure that all departments incorporate ICT in their syllabus so that students will have more effective learning. In my own department meeting, we are always asked to share or comment on fellow colleagues’ ideas and methods of using ICT in their lesson plans. In this way, we will learn new innovative ways and methods to include ICT in our lessons as well.
The HOD/ ICT feels that ICT is very important to be incorporated into syllabus as it is very beneficial for students' learning and therefore, makes it a point to ensure that all departments incorporate ICT in their syllabus so that students will have more effective learning. In my own department meeting, we are always asked to share or comment on fellow colleagues’ ideas and methods of using ICT in their lesson plans. In this way, we will learn new innovative ways and methods to include ICT in our lessons as well.
Most of other teachers that I spoke to are very welcoming to the idea of using ICT in their lessons. They know that the use of ICT will engage students and as a result, the students are able to learn and absorb more effectively. This is so much more effective for students to learn rather than listening to the teacher standing in front talking or screaming throughout the whole lesson.
Before I started QED527, I never knew that ICT could be used in so many ways such as those mentioned in your blog - facebook, handphones. These examples really gave me a larger perspective on the use of ICT in classrooms. I personally agree with most of your teachers as well that ICT would enable students to learn more effectively but the question here is how do we use ICT to gear them and train them to become self-directed learners. How should we make full use of facebook as a tool to promote CoL instead of merely CL.
ReplyDeleteI find it amazing how ICT can be infused into teaching of arts. I think that using Facebook and other social networks as a platform is a good way of encouraging students to comment on each other’s views and at the same time learn from each other. It will be even better if the teacher can act as a facilitator, giving some comments while the discussion online is on-going to prompt the students to think in different dimensions and challenge what their group members had commented. In this way, the teacher is also promoting CoL without students realizing it.
ReplyDeleteICT is an important tool in the classroom settings to make learning more efficient. The visualizer enables the teacher to demonstrate to a bigger group of students compared to the traditional breaking up in to smaller groups for a basic drawing demonstration. The class is able to have the same experience with lesser time spent on group demonstration.
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