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Katherine Walraven
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Your experiences with ICTs in the classroom
April 7, 2009 - 05:15 PM
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What ICTs are currently being used within your school or classroom(s), and how? Do you think that teachers in your school are fulling taking advantage of the possibilities that these tools offer?
Do you think that ICTs could be better integrated into your classroom? If so, how?
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Re: Your experiences with ICTs in the classroom
April 21, 2009 - 10:05 AM
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There are lots of ICTs that I've experienced. Different teachers has their own style of teaching and how they want ICT to help them teach. I had three subjects that mainly use ICT as one of the materials or assignments.
First is Thai. The teacher assign us to make a presentation of a content which each student will receive different content. So we had to read and understand the content and make a presentation of it to teach our friends instead of the teacher teaching us.
Second, teacher of my P.E. class assign us to make a short film about first aiding people. Then he will give the film to the countryside. And this will help us to have a great knowledge how to do it in reality.
The last one is the teacher uses a program to enhance our understanding in astronomy. It is a program that shows the star map and tells the information about the star. Moreover, the program can manage the time so that we can see how the stars changed while time passes by.
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Re: Your experiences with ICTs in the classroom
April 23, 2009 - 03:31 AM
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One of the most famous media teachers are using are the Powerpoint presentations. However, I dislike that alot because though a powerpoint presentation CAN be very useful, it isn't. One of the things kids complain about it the teacher "burning through the slides" Powerpoint presentations became a means for a which a teacher doesn't have to dirty their hands with chalk. The teacher gets bored with pressign buttons and their voice becomes monotone and ofcouse the dim lightning dulls us all to sleep.
THe powerpoints could have videos, sound clips, pictures, but they don't.
ICT is just another tool but i feel that ever though schools in Asian tried very hard to provide a computer and projecter and such, it's useless because the teacher can not tap into the full power of it yet.
Powerpoints have never been cool with me. However, I had a social studies teacher who simply used the internet and projector together. We could see maps! Through my years of studying, that's actually rather rare. He compared news and information from different countries to show how one fact can be presents to suggest different things to the reader. He showed us games like geo challenge on facebook and pictures of interesting historical events. All of it is free untapped resources. All the teachers COULD easily use it.
I have also had a chance to do a stimulation of a trip to mars on a field trip. My class was divided into two and assigned to different rooms. We would have different jobs and communicate adn work together with the kids in the other room. IT was made possible with ICT and it was an amazing experience.
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April 23, 2009 - 12:19 PM
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My tutors use many forms of ICT in the classroom. The most common ones being the combination of visualiser, overhead projector and screen; or notebook and screen. The former is usually used when the tutor either encounters difficulty setting up the latter or the tutor just wants to show us how to do certain things on a piece of paper. In other words, the first combination is meant to replace the white boards.
I enjoy the second combination because with a laptop and internet connection, I get to experience virtual scenarios which otherwise I do not get to see in real life. I think Iamkam's experience of going to Mars virtually is a very unique and unforgettable one. Obviously, many of us will not get to enjoy a ride to Mars unless we are either rich or we are astronauts. My tutors usually use his or her laptop and internet connection to show us videos (such as science experiments, debates, talks, motivational quotes,etc) and his or her lecture slides.
I think internet can be utilised to a greater extent. Nowadays there is something called YouTube Edu where we can peek into lecture halls of prestigious univerisities such as MIT, Yale, Harvard, etc in a click. I think my tutors should use it sometimes to replace their own lecture slides so that students can have a sense of how it feels like to study in these institutions. I believe that my tutors can also learn many things from observing how the professors in these universities conduct their lectures and produce brilliant students. All this will eventually aid students' learning.
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Re: Your experiences with ICTs in the classroom
April 23, 2009 - 09:23 PM
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Currently I feel that my teachers aren’t using ICT in the classroom as much as they could. I guess as they haven’t grown up around it they are more close minded about how it can help us, they look at it and think ‘turned out fine without it’ and so they don’t bother to take a closer look and involve it more. With the exception of my guide on the side Mrs D who I am working with on the S.P.L.I.C.E project (http://spliceproject.edublogs.org/) We really don’t use much more then a computer with basic internet. Some teachers use SMART boards which are like touch screen white boards. But these are quite expensive to purchase and so I think there are only 3-5 classes that have them. We also have a projector in every classroom, I like this as the teacher is able to share with us short videos to do with our topic from teachertube/youtube etc.
In my computing class students used to always play games or do other things when the teacher was talking, often they would miss out on important information. But now he uses software which changes everyone’s computer screens to show what the teacher’s computer is seeing. Now he has their full attention as they can’t do anything but watch what he is doing and it helps them take in any important information he needs to get across.
Last year my English teacher decided that school shouldn't finish at 3pm. We were running out of time in our school year and we didn't have enough time to revise in class about things we had covered for the end of year exams. So instead she organized us to have an account using software similar to Microsoft Office Live Meeting. We would all collaborate and answer exam type questions, we could upload interesting content we found on the internet supporting our views, and best of all we had actual notes (our teacher was hopeless at giving us notes). We then stored these notes on our classes blog to use in the future.
What I would like to see is classrooms like this but with students from all over the world, much like this forum but a chat room and bigger! However the downfall of this would be the different time zones, imagine having to come online at 3am and because of the time zone differences.. tbc
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Re: Your experiences with ICTs in the classroom
April 23, 2009 - 09:25 PM
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Continued...
...students on the other side of the world were logging on at 12pm it wouldn’t be very fair would it?
Sorry about the 2 posts but I reached the limit in my post size!
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Re: Your experiences with ICTs in the classroom
April 24, 2009 - 02:20 AM
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I feel pretty lucky that most of my teachers (since starting college) have had enough basic ICT skill to use projectors and laptops. This is good because less time is wasted waiting for notes to be written up on the whiteboard. We are also pretty regularly shown video clips (usually from YouTube) or relevant images from search engine searches.
The best use of ICT I have experienced in the classroom was by one of my science teachers, who used a smart board everyday to provide notes, show videos and pictures, draw cartoons to help us remember things or let us write things up on it that would then be changed into computer text. I think this way of using technology is good, and could be easily learnt by most teachers, the only problem is schools having the money to buy enough.
I think getting students involved with groups/businesses that use specific technologies in their lines of work would give the learners wider experience and take some of the pressure off teachers and schools to supply the equipment and the know how.
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Re: Your experiences with ICTs in the classroom
April 24, 2009 - 02:41 AM
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Nowadays, ICT is being used/integreted in my classroom. Teachers are able to use ICT to computing the point of students in the classroom from the examinations or essays.
I strongly believe that ICT will be better for the students in the classroom and it will help teachers to calculate the point of students more easily.
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Re: Your experiences with ICTs in the classroom
April 24, 2009 - 07:55 AM
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Do you think using ICTs can make a teacher better?
Do you think a good teacher needs ICTs?
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Re: Your experiences with ICTs in the classroom
April 24, 2009 - 05:59 PM
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I think I'm addicted to Wordle! Here are some more word clouds from this discussion:
http://www.wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/779555/ICTs_in_the_Classroom_1
http://www.wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/779563/ICTs_in_the_Classroom_2
http://www.wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/779566/ICTs_in_the_Classroom_3
http://www.wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/779568/ICTs_in_the_Classroom_4
http://www.wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/779570/ICTs_in_the_Classroom_5
It has been really interesting reading this thread! I have to admit that I'm a little bit jealous of your experiences. Being a bit older, ICTs were not an integral part of my educational experience, but they are now being used in such helpful and innovative ways!
Vaspol, it's good to know that your teachers have used ICTs in various subject areas, including Thai, phys ed, and astronomy! In my experience, some teachers seem to think that ICTs can only be applied educationally within certain subject areas. Your experience demonstrates that they can be applied across subject areas. The sky's the limit!
Kam, your comments about PowerPoint remind me of a postcard I picked up a while ago. What does everyone think about PowerPoint presentations? Have you experienced them done well? Do most of them tend to put you to sleep?
Kam, it would be great to learn more about your trip to Mars! Can you think of how this learning method could be applied in other subject areas?
Thanks for letting us know about YouTube EDU, Kartini! I had never heard of this before and will definitely check it out. I really miss being in school and look forward to getting to be a fly on the wall.
I think that Marcus made a great point when he said that many teachers are closed to technology because they "turned out fine without it." Part of the reason why change happens so slowly within the education sector is because teachers and parents expect that their children's education should be the same as the education that they went through. The reality is, however, that times have changed and education needs to prepare students for a new world, new challenges, and new opportunities.
How do you all feel about technology making it possible to continue learning outside of school hours? Do you think that this is largely beneficial or does it put too much pressure on students and detract from personal time?
Considering the role that ICTs can play in education, do you think that teachers should be required to take technology courses as part of their teacher training? Are there requirements like this for teachers in your country?
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Re: Your experiences with ICTs in the classroom
April 24, 2009 - 08:01 PM
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Wordles? Addicted? You sound like our Learning Facilitator for S.P.L.I.C.E :P
Don’t be jealous of our generation, I have to congratulate you on having such an open mind when it comes to the latest technology. I have found in my experience that many of the teachers who are at my school don’t often use technology. Even my current English teacher who is only in her mid 40’s finds it hard to turn on a computer without something making a bang and black smoke appearing (true story. 
Kam, I agree! “Power points are old fashioned” that is a direct quote from a 12 year old in the ‘You have a Message video’.
If even 12 year olds can see that they are useless what hope is there for them? I know in my experience I dread seeing a power point slide show. I have been involved in business before and the big wigs were talking to me about people who present their pitch on a PowerPoint. How most times it can look a bit shabby. I do agree with you on the fact that it can put you to sleep Katherine, and I like that “PowerPoints can kill” card It’s very true!!!!
Katherine, I know I can speak from Liza’s and my perspective when I say we enjoy learning. That’s what we are doing right now aren’t we? We are all learning from each other’s perspectives on what school is like across the World. And we are having fun! I suppose it’s also helpful that at the moment it’s the school holidays for us (however that ends this coming Monday) and I just wish we had known about this sooner, it’s so exciting to have this discussion with so many different people around the world and to know they are all passionate about education and have their own personal experiences to share
To be honest I’m not too sure about the technology training requirements. I think it may be up to the individual schools as not all schools have the same technology as others. Perhaps Liza would be best to comment on this one as her mother is currently studying to be a teacher. And it would also be interesting to hear from someone else about what it takes to study as a teacher in their Country.
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Re: Your experiences with ICTs in the classroom
April 25, 2009 - 04:38 AM
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Based on my experience, especially way back in my secondary years, the ICTs that we used were computer-aided softwares like MS office products, Flash, Adobe, Geometer's sketchpad, etc); telecollaborative projects with other countries on-line (like iEarn); other electronic materials in line with robotics; video and voice recorders, head sets for our Speech and foreign language classes; televisions, and LCD projectors for usual presentations or group discussions.
Our teachers fully incorporate this ICTs on most of our subjects to inculcate advanced learning and to ease understanding of the subjects especially in Math, Science, English, Computer, and its electives. And as part of our science and technology curriculum (which is now changed to science and engineering curriculum).
And I strongly agree that ICTs should be integrated in the classrooms, because it helped me a lot on my tertiary level. It's easy for me to comprehend my lessons and its an edge if you are already exposed to such method of learning like being globally competitive.
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Re: Your experiences with ICTs in the classroom
April 26, 2009 - 06:17 AM
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As I am a CS student I have to do all my lab works in computer. But I do not think we used the best use of technology. Using technology does not mean doing everything by computer. We have the computer but we dont have any interactive software to help us on learning.
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April 26, 2009 - 08:51 AM
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yes Kat, i read about youtube edu from Time magazine. Isn't it wonderful to experience being a "Harvard undergraduate" for once?  how ICT + globalisation have integrated everyone from every part of the world together!
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April 27, 2009 - 06:55 AM
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Thank you so much for sharing with us regarding youtube EDU and the universities' videos... Now I have a good grasp of what to expect if I decided to study abroad...
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