Blog 3: Make connections between your ESE and MOE Masterplans for ICT in Education

     Our school has a system called “AskNLearn Portal”; it is set up by a vendor, who also helps to maintain this system. The HOD of ICT also plays her part to encourage teachers use this portal to teach and prepare online assignment for pupils.
     Basically, this lesson study spends 6 periods to conduct. For first 2 periods, the teacher plays a movie clip (which is related to the topic of kinship) in class. Before the movie start, she asks the pupils sit in groups and assign the question to every group; pupils need to discuss the question assigned after watching the movie clip.

     For next 2 periods, every group has to present their result of discussion by using either Power point slides or mahjong paper. After that, all pupils have to log on to their account and leave comments on the blog which set up by teacher in the AskNLearn Portal. This lesson is conducted in Computer Lab.

     For last 2 periods, pupils have to write an email to her/his friend, share their feeling or opinion after watching this movie clip to her/his friend. Email topic and the guideline are given by teacher. They are allowed to write this email based on what they have discussed before. This lesson is conducted in classroom.

 

(Quoted from my previous blog entry)

 

     The MOE Masterplan also include school cockpit system and IShare, which is very useful for teacher. It's standardize the format of data entry and also the date and time to key in marks. Even the exam format also will change to ICT version in future, for example the chinese functional writing, now we are teaching email writing instead of letter writing. This is very useful for students in their future working life, but it still have some disadvantages. The students may not be able to write the words by hand and they may also too rely on ICT tools.

 

     From my ESE in Hillgrove Secondary School, the ICT usage during curriculum time still have a room to improve and innovate, the teacher over there is trying hard to do so. But the main concern is the students, whether the students like ICT or not? In my opinion, I think they have to like the subject first then only will accept the ICT teaching method.