Role of Technology in Our Teaching

This was the last week of our course ICT, I learned different new things to make my teaching effective and meaningful. I did not have much knowledge about technology when I joined this course. I believed that a good command on subject matter would be enough for good teaching, but I was wrong. The most important thing in today’s teaching is to make cross connections between different subjects and prepare our students as an active learner to generate their awareness towards global issues. So that they can realize their social roles and responsibilities, as a good citizens. This course helped me a lot to generate these things in my teaching.

                 During this course, we create our own blog to share our views on any topic covered in the class. It is a great idea to start in my future class. It might be little hard for students in first few weeks, but I will definitely improve their writing and thinking skills with the passage of time. This is good way to connect students with the topic even when they are not in the classroom. The best part of the blog is when all the students are allowed to read each others writing piece and able to provide the feedback. It will encourage them to appreciate others work.

                 Another good experience I had in this class was creating my own web site. It is a good place to organize your stuff at one place and communicate with your students, parents, and principal. It helps a teacher to make her work easier on regular basis by posting her home work, assignments, due dates, field trips, blog posts, teacher’s expectations, and her student’s best work.

                 I learned different smart board games and activities during the group presentations. Our professor Mike Nantais provides us different websites to search for future resources and make our teaching more meaningful. I also learned to create word splash, digital-story, image creating, and lots more. The best and most useful assignment for present situation is our e-portfolio. It is really useful to apply for different places and helps us to save money and energy to go and submit hard copy of our resume or portfolio.

             At the end I would like to thanks my professor Mike Nantais for providing us these useful resources make a commitment to my profession that I will work as hard as possible to create a positive growth in the lives of my students and help them to fulfill their dreams.