Reflection
Integration of ICT in teaching and learning became very
crucial as the 21st century children love to learn through the usage
of technologies. Students enjoy and take active participation whereby learning
take place. However most of the teachers taught in the traditional way with the
usage of chalk and chalkboard, in lecture method but with the close down of
schools the usage of ICT became like mandate as online teaching is not possible
without using ICT.
Although Primary schools are still closed but the online
teaching has to be done without fail. As per the government directives we chat
for lower classes (PP-III) and Google classroom for classes IV and above were
created. However children complain about not being able to open Google
classroom with poor net connection so teachers have to send in we chat,
telegram and messenger. Some students and their parents don’t have mobile, in
such cases teachers’ pair up the student with the one having mobile.
I taught mathematics to class III students on the topic fraction.
Notes and examples were given, videos were downloaded from you tube and was
shared with the children in we chat and through telegram to those who are not
having we chat. Few activities were given to the children to solve on their
own. Almost all of them has done their work correctly and I am sure they
understood very well. Few students around 2-3 made mistake, for those students
I made correction.
While going for door to door evaluation, I asked students
about my lesson, they said they enjoyed watching the videos and understood the
lesson. So it was clear that they like teaching through such media. But at the
same time some were complaining for not being able to open the videos due to
poor net. Anyway I am happy that most of the students have learnt something.
Teaching and learning was possible due to such technologies otherwise I can’t
imagine how teaching and learning could have taken place with the closure of
schools due to the pandemic.
Pema Choden DEB 06170415
