Subject: English
Reflection on advantages
of using ICT for teaching and learning
We knew that the usage of ICT is important in
teaching and learning processes. However, its practical importance and crucial
role is felt only during the COVID-19 pandemic when all the schools across the
country is shut and the teachers have to teach the students through Google
classroom and other social media platforms. In fact it served the diverse functions in the
process of virtual teaching and learning, yet I would like to reflect on the
few critical things every one of us must be reminded.
ICT immensely became handy for all the teachers
across the country after the closure of the schools due to pandemic. Had there
been no ICT as such than the students across the country would be left
disengaged. Thereby contributing more towards the social chaos by the students abusing
drugs, alcohol, joining gang fights, teenage pregnancy, going against parents, etc.
All this if happened, occurred minimal since the students are meaningfully engaged
by the teachers using ICT to teach and learn at their homes. Hence the students
did not get chance to engage in such nonsensical activities.
In schools, the students are disallowed from owning
and using the mobile phones despite knowing the fact that the world is ICT
driven. This deprivation caused hiccup to students to cope with the online
learning from mobile phones initially for a few weeks, but gradually improved
proving that they are the digital natives. Knowing on this well proofed that the
mobile phones must be allowed to use by the students in school. So that the
students can be well oriented to better learn lessons through mobile phones at
any time or in future if similar unprecedented situation may ever arise.
Eventually, both the students and teachers must
sharpen their knowledge on ICT since it becomes inevitable to forgo. A good teacher
deprived of ICT knowledge will not be effective. A bright student without ICT knowledge
will not be smart. Our education system must go paradigm shift from book orientated
learning to ICT oriented learning. This would safe unnecessary waste of
resources like printing textbooks and issuing notebooks to the students. With pandemic
outbreak, I could find maximum students could afford to own a smart phone. A
few exceptional cases, the government can issue on returnable bases by saving
the budget allotted for printing textbooks and purchasing other stationeries
for the teaching and learning purposes in the schools. By doing so would well-groom
and strengthen the digital oriented future citizens and move towards achieving the
aspiration our Majesty, the King.
Pem
Tshering
B.Ed
Primary III year B
