ICT Session 4

For today's lesson, we had two special guests who are teachers from a Secondary and a Primary school respectively. Daryl's talk was on how Nintendo Wii can be incorporated into lessons.

Students nowadays are really fortunate to be able to "play games" during their lessons. I think the whole idea is really cool and I am sure the students really enjoyed their Home Economics with Cooking MaMa (a game that I really like playing) and their Biology wif Trauma Centre. Incorporating games in teaching will enhance the learning experience and can fully attract the students' attention from start to end.

Hopefully I will be able to find some games that can be used during my Chinese Language of Literature lessons. I am convinced that by doing so, students will be more receptive during their lessons.

I also learnt that apart from looking into Wii games, I can also seek out games from the Web, Facebook, PC games, Xbox etc.

A very important take-home message from Daryl's presentation was that a lesson has to be meaningful and that students should be able to learn something out of it.

Something important I have learnt from the second speaker's presentation is that although I am going to be a Secondary school teacher, I have to know what the students have learnt(skills set) or gone through, and how the learning methods that they had in their primary schools, so that I can plan my lessons effectively. Pedagogical approaches can then be modified accordingly.

One important message from this speaker was at the end of the day, whether the time spent doing up the lessons with ICT is worth it.

I have enjoyed the two presentations and have come to know about how innovative teachers and lessons can be.