My wish list for ICT :)

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Well , i am sure we have ponder or think about..what kind of teacher would we be in the future? One who just stick to the old style of teaching . . or we would want to change and manipulate our teaching style with all the technology and facilities available now. I think some of us have decide already what kind of teacher would we want to be, after the somewhat bitter-sweet memories and experience during the whole practicum months.

As for myself, i had only a few experience using ICT in teaching my pupils. But, yes i would love to have more chances and opportunities to use ICT in my teaching session. Here are my 10 wish list, for the future in ICT so it can help me be a better educator and help pupils maximize their learning 🙂

1 — A big, comfortable and equip room.

I think the basic should be well prepared first, before the other gadgets and facilities comes in. I see in many schools, they lack rooms such as computer room or media rooms. Even if they have, it is either too small to fit the amount of pupils in classrooms, which is around 35 to 40 pupils . Besides that, it is usually not fully equip with LCD, projectors, power plug and many more. Thus, I really wish in future, all teacher would not have to face this problems. I hope rooms that are equip, big and comfortable enough would always be there to be used and manipulate by the teachers. Besides, it will help us decrease our headache and migraine thinking about places to fit in the pupils whenever we have some lesson involving ICT such as power points or videos. :p

2– Good internet connection

I am glad to see that most schools now have wireless internet service or Wifi in the schools. It helps teacher in many sense. Therefore, to make it even, with good facilities of ICT in school, good connection of internet should be available for teachers.

3– Computers and Laptops

My next wish is that, schools provide a room such as computer labs or even laptops for pupils. Well, to asks for each pupils to get one laptop each is quite, well over the top to ask, but it is not impossible. We just need more money to fund it. However, for me school is the place where pupils can be exposed to technology, such as the use of computers and internet in learning. Therefore,even a child that does not have a laptop or computer at home, can always use the one provided in schools. It will make pupils look forward to the class and excited to learn something new and know they get the chance to use the knowledge, even tough they do not have the access to it at home. Some schools provide only about 15 to 20 computers, where 40 pupils have to share to use it, and some of the computers are not working. This will de-motivate pupils and decrease their interest in learning using ICT. I would love to see this change in the future 🙂

4– Good maintenance

I wish in each school, there would be one or two workers, may be teachers, who is responsible in checking all the facilities such as laptops, computers, lcd, projectors, cd players and make sure all of them can be use and in good condition. Now, i can see some of ‘these people’ in school, but they are sitting around, doing nothing to fix the damage, and when teachers asked about the things, they just answered ‘it can’t be use, its broken’. I would love to see people who actually do their work and not sit around and let the facilities be dusty along the years.

5– Courses in ICT

Well, I am glad that i have the opportunity to learn about ICT in Um during my course. But, i am sure not all teachers have the privileged , so there need to be courses in preparing teachers to use more and  more ICT in classroom. It can be in stages, so teachers will learn step by step without having too much pressure and expectations on them. Especially for the more matured teachers, who are not familiar with technologies and such. I am sure it will benefit both teacher and pupils.

6– Expert teachers in ICT

I think this will also help teachers like me in schools. If one or more teachers are expert in using the gadgets and ICT in schools, i can always have someone i can refer to if i face any problems. Not to take advantage , but to learn from them as it will also help me in the future. If i face any doubt about using any activities involving ICT, i may ask for their opinion and re-evaluate my lesson so it will be better.  In time, maybe i will also turn out to be one of the experts in ICT. . well who knows ;p

7–Creative ways of evaluating pupils

I wish, that my pupils, are able to use websites like Facebook, windowslive, and even blog sites, as one of their way of being evaluated. It is like what we have now, where pupils can share opinions, share knowledge and pass out information so fast with the help of these websites. It will be hard to control as it may have some distraction,  but i see it is not impossible to do so.

8– Smaller classroom

Not in the form of the size but the amount of the pupils. I hope each class will not exceed 30 pupils for each classroom, well maybe the maximum should be 32 or 35 pupils. It will make everyone happier, as pupils have more space and teachers get less stress out and can focus on each pupils as individuals 🙂

9–Curriculum that is flexible

Now, we have to deal with the needs of the curriculum and the topics in the text-book so pupils can answer and score in their exams. I wish the curriculum would be more flexible and have more space and suggestions on how a teacher can carry out a lesson on certain topic with the use of ICT. Now, it guides teacher on how to use the textbook, but it would be better if the syllabus and curriculum also change along with the needs of ICT in classrooms.

10– Money !
Lastly, my wish is that there will always be enough funds for schools to cater to this need of ICT in teaching and developing pupils to be better. Some schools face problems to maintain their facilities because of financial problems. So, it would be a waste for teachers not to use their creativity, technologies and sources around them just because of the fund and money is not enough. I wish money would not be a big issue that stop teachers from being more creative and teach more to pupils.

I am done! These are my 10 wish list that I hope I can see, have or do in the future. 🙂 I really hope i can be a resourceful teacher that helps pupils to develop their knowledge with all the technologies we have nowadays.

so long ! take care !

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hello everyone.. well like everyone else i’m here to share a little bit of some of my i can say, great experience in my school.

I was in SK.Bandar Tasik Selatan  for almost 3 months. . and i was teaching mathematic and English subject to Year 4 and 5. Well , the school was an average school, like most schools in KL . It is crowded and noisy, with about 30 to 40 pupils in a classroom. Most of the students also come from low and average family background. Thus, i can say their English proficiency is quite low.

As for the school, there is one Media room, where there is one lcd screen, with chairs, but the room itself is quite small, dark and if i were to put 30 to 40 pupils in there at once, of course it will be total chaos. There are also some LCD projectors that were available for teachers to use, and we have to take turn to use it.

I had some experience using ICT in my English classroom, with the Year 5 classroom. I was able to use my own laptop, and a song, to play a game with the pupils. Obviously they were excited to play the game with the catchy song ‘Waka Waka’. When i asked them, had they played games and music in the classroom, they said very very seldom. It shows that the teachers there, use a little of ICT in the classroom to expose pupils to English. There are no speakers available in the class, thus i have to bring my own speakers.

Another experience that i had, was during English week, where my partner for practicum, syima and i agreed to do a story-telling session for the year 1 pupils. We were already busy preparing our costumes and many things, then the teacher in charge of  the English week,  told us we have to handle everything by ourselves. He did not even help with getting and borrowing the LCD projector. It was chaos, where we have to run here and there to ensure everything is in place on time. We had to on the LCD and gather the pupils, use the laptop and everything. However, i can see a vast difference.  In the story-telling session, the pupils even with low proficiency in English were able to understand the story with the help of pictures, songs and background pictures that we used along with the story. They were also very excited singing and doing actions along with us. It would be a totally different scenario if we were not using the ICT such as the song, the LCD screen and projectors and many more.

So with this experience, i can really conclude that using ICT is not impossible or  a HARD thing to do. We just need to put a bit more effort on understanding how to use it and maintain all the facilities given. This will give a vast impact to the pupils learning process, as what i witness it myself.

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