Structural Assignment : Teaching Learning with ICT

1.     Why do you think we need ICT in teaching learning process?

Because learning takes place everywhere, not just in the classroom. Today, we are in 21st Century, ICT can empower teachers and students, promote change of the teaching learning process to be better and foster the development of 21st Century skill. By ICT, we can connected to the world (locally and globally). We can learn from teachers around world. We can share our ideas and ask our question without gap. The information and knowledge are unlimited if we applied ICT in teaching learning process.

2.    In what ways ICT can really help both teacher and students?

ICT can helps teacher enjoy the teaching-learning in class and the students enjoy their learning and doing their homework. In ICT, there are some options to learn, such as blogging, broadcasting, Google document presentation and social networking.

By blogging, students can have learning experiences. The students can share ideas, videos and their own website. They learn to be creative and productive by design their blog and share their words with the world. Then the students can get comments and feedback about their materials. The teacher can give his or her suggestion and advice for their blogs. It really helps the students to get the confidence from the feedback of their friends, teachers or people around the world.

By broadcasting, students can record their own video about any subject and the teacher can listens the broadcast from the students and then give them a feedback. The students can also listen to the other broadcast and learn from it.

By Google document presentation, the teacher can presents a slide show that have been talked in the class. The students can develop the presentation to be more interesting by text, graphic and pictures to present the project. Google documentary also offers the capability of sharing their works with anyone, anywhere in the world.

By social networking (for example Twitter), the students can connect to their teacher and the others by following the tweets. The teacher can gives a discussion topic in a tweet and the students can share their opinions by reply their teacher’s tweet. It helps them to share their ideas and get the point from the “chat”.

Both teacher and students can learn about critical thinking, generalist (broad) competencies, ICT competencies enabling expert work, decision-making, working as a member of a team, when students have a group project and do it with their friends as a group, and the teacher can be a part of that team, and also learn about communicating effectively.

3.  Which do you prefer to ask, what computer can do for us, or what we can do with computer? Mention the reason.

What we can do with computer. Because computer is a general-purpose tool with many uses, so the primary limits on what it does are set by the choices of its user, us. We, humans, can explore the computer’s function and innovate the program on computer, improve our creativity on computer.