Teach Me Using ICTs (The Use of It)
Worldwide
research has shown that ICT can lead to improve students’ learning and better
teaching methods. A report made by the National Institute of Multimedia
Education in Japan, proved that an increase in student exposure to
educational ICT through curriculum integration has a significant and positive
impact on student achievement. In this era, I
think that teaching using ICT is a great way to teach that combines the
advantages of technology. Almost every day we actually use the global technology
such as phones, laptops, tablets, and exactly the internet itself to share
information and communicate to another
people. From that reason, we need ICT to share our knowledge to learners through the fresh nowadays technology that can attract the learners to keep studying in simple and fun ways.
people. From that reason, we need ICT to share our knowledge to learners through the fresh nowadays technology that can attract the learners to keep studying in simple and fun ways.
Based on http://www.elmoglobal.com/en/html/ict/01.aspx,
there are some advantages and disadvantages of ICT tools for education.
The advantages
are:
- Through ICT, images can easily be used in teaching and improving the retentive memory of students.
- Through ICT, teachers can easily explain complex instructions and ensure students' comprehension.
- Through ICT, teachers are able to create interactive classes and make the lessons more enjoyable, which could improve student attendance and concentration
The disadvantages
are:
- Setting up the devices can be very troublesome.
- Too expensive to afford.
- Hard for teachers to use with a lack of experience using ICT tools
Actually, those
problems can be solved if we, as would-be-teachers, get familiar using the ICT tools.
If we use it every day in teaching, we can operate it easily, but it may be
difficult to buy the expensive ones. No worries, the process of teaching still
can be continued without the expensive tools, right?
Now, let’s take a look on some free educational websites as shown in http://www.pcpro.co.uk/features/372979/10-free-online-tools-for-teaching-and-learning. Students now can access the online tools freely to create some creative things to improve their spirit to study such as wordle.net, wallwisher.com and prezi.com. They can explore their imagination and creativity through that learning website. The website is not only very useful but also designed nicely because it attracts and stimulates the students to create their own works based on their thoughts and imagination.
Due to its
powerful effect, ICT provides opportunities to communicate more effectively and
to develop the students’ skills especially in the language skill of English. It
is a valuable tool for teaching English because almost all gadgets or ICT tools
using English as the standard language to operate. From that phenomenon, it
helps the students understand the English words, so it is like the bridge for
them to acquire the English language skills such as reading and writing. In
writing, for example, teachers can use movies to teach them how to make
narrative texts based on their own imagination, but still obey the rules of
making narrative texts.
Conclusion:
The ICT is just the
media to transfer information or knowledge from one person to another person. That
is the point. We know that in this era the ICT has the powerful sharing to the
world. However, we should not forget the traditional way in communication that
is face-to-face sharing because it does not need any tools. For example, right
now we are teaching, but unfortunately it is blackout. What should we do to
continue our teaching? Absolutely, we teach the students not using ICT tools. We
use the natural way in teaching. In short, I want to emphasize that we can
teach students by combining the ICT tools and the traditional way to get the
higher achievement. Also, I hope the education in this country can develop to
increase the prosperity for the society.Sources:
- http://www.elmoglobal.com/en/html/ict/01.aspx
- http://www.infodev.org/articles/use-specific-ict-tools-education
- http://www.pcpro.co.uk/features/372979/10-free-online-tools-for-teaching-and-learning
- http://ictpost.com/role-of-ict-is-multi-faceted-in-education/
- http://www.englishteacher.com.au/AboutUs/OfficialStatements/ICTsinEnglish.aspx
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