ICT in teaching the Mean

On 21^st October, I had a lesson on the topic the mean for two periods. To do this lesson I used the first period for explaining the meaning and examples on how to find the mean using two types of ways. After that I gave them a few questions to solve but I found them taking so long time to solve the questions especially with the bigger number. I could see them facing difficulty in dividing the numbers thought they know the steps on how to find the mean so in the second period I took my children to the IT lab to do hands on practice using ict .I took the questions written on the chart and ask my children to solve the question in the group since many of the computers were out of nets.  When they reached there I briefed them how to go about the activity .During that time I found my children were taking active role in solving the problems. Though the computers with nets were not sufficient but children were very happy to do their work in the groups whereas in the class they reluctantly do in the group. After five minutes children could solve more than five questions and they asked for more number of questions.

I felt that the use of ICT in teaching would be a great need to curve the timing and to enhance the teaching learning for both the teacher and the students. It is really a help for the students because the children know how to use the ICT and also they can solve a large amount of problems within a short period. They get lot of hands on practice but in the class they hardly solve one to two problems in a period. I wish to have availability of computers with Internets, projectors and television in every school in near future. The use of ICT in teaching is truly benefiting to students and teachers. Henceforth I will keep on using ICT in my lesson.

Thank you.

ICT in my October month

 On 2^nd October, I had a lesson on Prism 

and pyramid nets for a period of 40 minutes for class V. There my objective was the child will be able to create different nets for 3 – D shapes using internet.  After that I revised the topic by letting them to jot down the names of 3 – D shapes in their book. Then I showed them the 3 – D shapes one by one with explanation like what is prism and pyramid etc. How they are different and alike? What shape is this?

Then in the activity part, I asked them to find at least two different nets for triangular based prism, triangular based pyramid, Cube, rectangle based prism ask them to draw in their book using the internet. During the activity using with ICT, children were effectively  and totally engrossed with their activity. I found that children were really taking interest in learning their content when given chance to explore using internet. Once the activity was over, I asked someone to draw net for some shapes and could find that even the weaker students could do well. The next day, I asked my students to create models using nets in the group and children could create very neatly without any reference.

Lastly I would love to integrate ict if got opportunity to use the facilities for my lesson. Not only that I can also screen a short informative video to my students to enhance my teaching learning.