1st Week Reflections (Han Kiong)

Going into the first lesson, I was sceptical of how the course will benefit us in our teaching. This is largely due to the lack of understanding of what the course incorporates. I have thought like everybody else that this course entails just the introduction to information technologies not knowing that it actually delves into meaningful teaching as well. I realised that I was ill prepared to enter the course as there were many misconceptions of what ICT is. I thought powerpoint is part of ICT without knowing that they are deficient in the communications aspect. As the lesson goes on, I realised that this would be an important course as it would enrich our teaching and make it more interesting for the students.

Over the course of my 6 months contract teaching, I realised that some elements of ICT have already been incorporated in my teaching. I have used powerpoints with the added element of interactive quizzes in these powerpoint slides. Students have to feedback to the teacher on how they arrive at the solutions and to voice out their concerns to the use of these interactive quizzes. Moreover, e-learning for the students have also exposed me to portals such as Heymath and Moodle whereby students are required to independently complete the online assignments and to search for information over the internet. The emphasis of using ICT is increasingly important as there might be disruptions to classes due to unforseen circumstances.

I hope that the course will equip me with more teaching options and enable me to make it more interesting for my students.