Ministry of Education is collaborative with Educational Colleges (Teaching Colleges) to instigate teachers to realize the roles and significant mode of ICT in modern teaching and learning process. Therefore, we as a teacher need to provide students a platform to explore and adapt to the need of educational changes at present time. The modern time is in need of ICT exploration for every field and daily working environment. Therefore, it is the role of the teachers to facilitate ICT enrichment for the children's better learning and development.
With the sigh of the significant need of ICT in teaching learning process, I taught lesson on “equivalent fractions” in class IV Mathematics by integrating ICT and game base lesson on 30th August 2021. To propagate my ICT integration, I used link provided in NNC guide interactive simulation available at: https://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulation/fractions-equality to find number patterns in equivalent fractions. I found that ICT integration lesson was unexpectedly different in terms of student’s participation and learning comparing to normal teaching. As per my observation, ICT was an energizer for the students. It stimulates students energy with their utmost interest and enthusiasm. Teaching learning process was in lifeline of students' center of learning and development.
I commenced the teaching procedures through demonstration of ways to find equal fractions by using PHET
simulation. I demonstrated it by playing game level 1 from eight levels. After having taught same topic through game base lesson and ICT
integration I could reflect on the achievements and draw backs of using
ICT modalities for future reference.
I could see the vast difference in children’s learning and development in comparison to normal means of teaching other teaching learning materials such as textbook, chart paper and chalkboard. Through the ICT integrated teaching, I found that students were active and energetic throughout the lesson. They are overwhelmed and curious to go to next level and to complete all the levels of game. I feel technology provides students with easy to access to informative learning through innovative opportunities to practice what they learnt and to grasp the content easily. On the other hand, students explore in-depth understanding of the difficult concepts and also an easy task for teacher to check the understanding of the lesson immediately. If students fail to find equivalent fractions, the score levels goes down indicating students have not done correctly. In that process, teacher can easily diagnose students' difficulties and can provide an instant support for their better understanding of the lesson.
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earlier, it just not helped in increasing the curiosity of children when
teaching but also it reduced the work load. Despite having uncountable benefits
of integrating ICT in teaching learning process, limited resources,
transportation of electronic from one classroom to another after every period
and lack of IT expertise were some of manageable challenges that we have in
schools. None the less, I started to believe that ICT really plays a vital role
in making our lesson better and achievable.
To conclude, ICT plays a pivotal role in transforming educational practices. ICT is not only help to transfer assumptions to realistic experience but also makes learning more fun and creative. It has helped both the teacher and learner to carry out tasks conveniently and professionally which resulted in learning more independently through ICT as they take more accountability of learning process with their keen interest.
