jeorge
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Post by jeorge on Apr 16, 2007 17:12:38 GMT 4
Well my name is Jeorge for those who don’t know me well and I’m currently a third year student.
With so many actual teachers present on these forums I think it would be a great opportunity for me to ask some questions to the people who are already in the field so to speak.
So what tasks have you competed over your teaching years that have integrated ICTs? I would also like to know what went well in your experiences, what did not go as well as you had have hoped and what advantages and disadvantages have you experienced with ICT integration?
Feel free to discuss anything in about ICT integration in this thread as any information in regards to this topic would be great.
Jeorge
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reggie
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Post by reggie on Apr 17, 2007 19:33:57 GMT 4
Hi Jeorge,
Be happy to...
I don't know what you teach but I've a feeling that we were involved in a discussion on literacy on the discussion board.... English?
Anyway, I've found that the best integration of ICT that I have managed thus far is the blog/wiki. I created one for one of my classes and we have been conversing with each other after school hours on all sorts of topics and have been creating a wiki for our subject - I think this may work particularly well in English for collaborative writing purposes. The mind boggles at the possibilities! I think, for me as a science teacher, the aim is to get students producing a kind of encyclopaedia of our stuff with the aim of peer-assessment/correction and collaboration, especially for study/revision purposes. Other practical ICT integration? I've created/bought a lot of interactive powerpoint stuff for the interactive whiteboard to support my lessons and there are also some excellent online/interactive software experiments to model various scientific principles. I've found these particularly useful where the experiments may be too dangerous to be practical in a lab (radioactivity stuff) or require 3D mental exercises by the students which they find difficult (motors and generators). Having said that though, I am very picky about what I use since doing a course here on ICT integration which made me really think about the value of the ICT I use. There is a lot of material out there that I would not use, you just have to sift through a lot of nonsense to get to the good stuff. This just takes time and I think is probably quite individual to the teacher. What one person can make work in a classroom falls flat for another....
Hope I've been helpful to you
Reggie
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jeorge
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Post by jeorge on Apr 18, 2007 8:43:17 GMT 4
Hey Reggie.
Thanks for your example of how you¡¦ve integrated ICTs.
I agree that it is up to the teacher to find what software and online tools work best for them. They all have their advantages and disadvantages and it is up to the teacher to find which ones thy can utilise and integrate successfully into their work.
I think that was an excellent use of software to complete experiments about radioactive software. That is exactly what my other ICT course is trying to put across is that if used correctly ICTs should enable learners to complete tasks or add to tasks or develop certain skills that can not be accomplished without the use of ICTs and your radioactive example is exactly that.
I liked your methods of integrating blogs and wikis. I too have had similar ideas but have yet had the means to experiment with them. I think that online tools such as forums, blogs and wikis are great tools to allow students to contribute and continue learning outside of school hours and the focus turns from more teacher directed learning to more peer learning with guidance from the teacher.
Thanks again for sharing your experience. Also, I will be teaching primary school when I graduate; I admire you for being able to teach science as science is not my most loved curriculum area ļ
Jeorge
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