Reflective Journal

The tuto, Mr Chenga  welcomed the ICT trainne teachers and given the outlined on the objectives of the module. The participants were asked to think and write what do they need to know in the module and some participants have shared the things to the floor. Some of the points included were like how to browse pictures from net, download, use of ICT in daily classroom teaching and lots more.

After the brief explanation on the importance of ICT in current teaching learning situation, the mode of assessment were also made clear to the learners. It comprises of one minor assignment worth of 20%, one major assignment which is further broken down into 10% during RS and 10% online, 10% on the usage of VLE. And the final one was the group project work which is worth 40% that made up the total of 100%. The following points were also shared as:

ICT: A devices set of technological tools and resources to communicate, and to create, disseminate, store and manage information.

Various forms of Information:

1. Text
2. Audio
3. Video
4. Graphics
5.Flash


Various files formats of information:

1. Text
2. Data
3. Audio
4.Video

Then the tutor talked on the Digital native versus digital immigrants as:

Digital Natives:

During the past twenty years as the IT (information technology) revolution boomed, a debate has developed over the effect of the new and improving Information Communication Technologies (ICT) on educational processes – in particular focusing on the ‘Digital Natives’ and their technological skills learned as a result of maturing and experiences technology and its advancements in everyday life.

As S. Bennet, L. Kervi and K. Maton (2008) explain, the debate focuses on the claim that the Digital Natives are so adapt at using technology that they are so differentiated ‘…from previous generations of students and from their teachers, and that the differences are so significant that the nature of education itself must be fundamentally changed to accommodate the skills and interests of these digital natives’ (pg. 775-776).

The children who were born after the introduction of many social technologies such as use net and bulletin board system came online as equipment in the teaching learning processes.

Ø  The children born after 1980 are the digital native as they access to network digital technologies and they all have the skills to use those technologies.

Ø  The children will also  have the high capacity of learning things through internet as the technology user  under the age of 30 years who was born in the digital world.

Ø   The children have spent their entire life surrounded by and using computers, video games, digital music players, video cams, cell phones,all other toys and tools of the digital age as stated by M spranky, 2003. The digital natives are used to receive information very fast. 

Ø  The digital immigrants are those who are not born in digital world.

Ø   The children were born much before the massive use of digital gadgets, but they have some time at the later part of their lives to have access to digital technologies.

Ø   Brook-young sees, digital immigrants as the technology user, usually over the age of thirty, who are not born in the digital world.

Ø  The digital immigrants can be seen in such things as turning to the internet for information second rather than first, reading a manual for a program-me rather than assuming that the program-me itself will teach us how to use it.

Ø  According to long digital immigrants can never become natives.

Ø  As per the research made, it was found out that the digital native receives information quickly from different sources where as immigrants can be controlled to limited sources of in formation.

Ø  They use pictures, sound and video to get the information but immigrant are most popular with the text for information.

Ø  Digital natives go for multitask and always have parallel learning process and the immigrants cans focus on the single task only.

Ø  More interaction is the given emphasis by the natives and the immigrants opts for free and undisturbed environment. The learning by the native seems more fun and relevant as compared to that of immigrants which is mostly of linear and sequential process of learning.  

Ø  In the education process now is that, our digital immigrants use outdated language to teach children which makes children difficult to learn the new language.

Ø  They are struggling to teach the population that speaks totally new language.

Ø  The students gets frustrated to learn in absence of internet access in the present school situation. 

Internet dominance over teaching

Ø  The teacher is no longer the source of information as the method of teaching really does  not provide the justice for the children’s learning as they are the digital natives student.

Ø   It highlighted the dominance of the internet as a source of the child’s learning.

Ø  The critical thinking, media literacy, communication, collaboration, information literacy and creativity are the 21^st century skills. Therefore, our teaching learning processes should involve such skills rather than sticking to the old dilapidated traditional way of teaching.

Ø  The children being born in digital world have the ability to learn things in more creative way. Their learning styles has changed and should our teaching styles, to meet the changes.

The significance of ICT in Teaching

Ø  It’s a diverse set of technology tools and resources to communicate and to create, disseminate, store and manage information.

Ø  Using ICT in education saves lots of time and resources. We have the option to edit and update information.

Ø  Large information can be stored in it and use it as and when required.

Ø  It improves the quality of education and expand access of information.

Ø  The database is a collection of information and the forms of information can be in text, audio, video and graphics which are called multimedia.

Ø  The important web sites were also shared.

Web Search

Ø  Internet is the connection of network, the inter connectivity of anything like, local, wide, personal and mobile.

Ø   Local refers to small area about 10 km range. City- meta polygon, wide – country and internet- connection of many nets together.

Ø  Mozilla Firefox, internet explorer, torch are some of the browser and they retrieve information from the server.

Ø  Yahoo, google and gmail are search engine.

Ø  The URL, Universe Resource Locator, gov- government, .org- organisation, .bt- Bhutan, .it- India, .edu- education.

Ø   While browsing for information we must make sure we type the correct urland how to browse for information were also discussed here. 

 Wiki

Ø  It is a site that every one can create and drop the information in it for others to read and pass comment on it.

Ø   Wiki site using google tools one should have gmail account opened.

Ø  We can  post documents for others to read and comment

       

 MS word activity Journal

For this activity, I have to seek some help from my teacher friend and he taught me to complete the assignment. Now, I can do myself and  I am using what ever I have learnt in my day to day life.

Video tutorial and Quiz

For completing this assignment, I have to spent lot of times as some of friends were out of internet. I have to call now and then and at times, friends spent their Sundays and going nearby where net is available. With utmost collaboration, we have completed the tasks happily and we have learnt a lot and now we can implement and also implementing what ever we have learnt.

Online Reflective Journal

To carry out this activity, one need to have internet access, otherwise it is impossible to complete this very important assignment. For this, I have to rush to the town to complete the information. Any way, I have learnt a lot will use in the future and also I will share to my colleagues.

Google Docs

The following are the advantages as:

Ø  Staff/grade level meeting

Ø  Shared lesson repository

Ø  Improve writing process

Ø  Reading response journal

Ø  Translate letter home for parents

Ø  Track students homework (sharing to parents)

Ø  Sign up sheets

Ø  Experiments

A blog

A blog is a website in which items are posted on a regular basis and displayed in reverse chronological order. The term blog is a shortened form of weblog or web log. Authoring a blog, maintaining a blog or adding an article to an existing blog is called “blogging”

Advantages of a Blog

Ø  Become a Better Writer

Ø  Get More Clients to Your Existing Business

Ø  Become a Published Author

Ø  Become a Published Author

Ø  Learn More About a Group of People

Ø  Gain Influence Establish Yourself as an Expert in Your Field

Ø  Stay Knowledgeable in Your Field

Google Drive

 Google Drive is a file storage and synchronization service created by Google. It allows users to store files in the cloud, share files, and edit documents, spreadsheets, and presentations with collaborators

Advantages

Ø  Store data

Ø  Sharing of data to colleagues

Ø  Formative and submmative assessments

Ø  Survey students

 After carrying out this journal, I have learnt a lot  and I would firstly thank the tutor for providing such activity which has really awaken me in above skills. Had tutor not given this activity, I would have not learnt the things that I had, from this activity.  I will implement what ever I learnt in day to day work.

Once again, thank you very much.


Karma Tshering DE12772(A)