Domestic Animals

 Subject: English 

Class: II

Activity: Children will write few sentences about domestic animals and send it through WeChat. 

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