Use of ICT in teaching rhymes to my children

The children learn better when we use something different strategies in our teaching and learning. As we all know that we have to teach many rhymes to our primary children as part of their text in English lesson. So on 20^th August i taught rhymes to my class one student “There was a farmer who had a dog’. I made my children to sit in a circle and told them that we are going to sing a rhyme. First I made them to look and listen carefully to the rhymes played from my laptop.

When I played the rhyme from my laptop I saw many smiling faces and they were really enjoying it. When we teach rhymes singing by our self we can hardly teach one tune only but if we teach by using ICT we can have many tunes for the same rhymes. I played three different types of tunes for the rhyme. Children really enjoyed listening to the different tunes for the same rhyme. As I never taught different tunes for one rhyme my children were quite surprised to see rhyme with different tunes.

After listening to the three different tunes I asked them to choose the best tune they want to sing. Then I made them to sing all together with the action like in the laptop. I learned that children picked up the tune more quickly when they listen to the rhyme that is shown with action and pictures with music. They really had fun in learning through the use of ICT than when we sing to them. All most all the children could sing confidently with correct tunes which made my work easier as I don’t have to shout to control my class. For the children who need to practice more I told them to browse that rhymes at home as many of their parents has smart phone at home.

I learned that our children learn faster through ICT use and it reduces our work load. We don’t have to worry about the tunes and our voice. Our children take interest in learning when we use ICT. Lastly if we are not sure about the tunes for our rhymes we can always look for the correct tunes.

Use of ICT in my Classroom Teaching and learning

Integrating ICT in teaching and learning refers to the process of determining which products and process of ICT should be appropriate for the given classroom, situation and problems. Nowadays it is widely accepted that ICT are used in every steps of education. Technology acts as a catalyst in children, provides social interaction and moreover provides additional opportunities for a rich learning environment that is consistent with modern times. ICT is important in primary schools because it can help kids to achieve better results in other subjects and to find what they need and use information in particular ways. It is important that children become familiar with ICT at an early age, because they will need those skills for the reminder of their education and adult life.

With the change in time so technology is must at this present world. Before we use to make our children’s result in hard copy only, but now with the ICT we can prepare our result in soft copy .I prepared my class result in soft copy, for the first time I found it little difficult to use result soft copy as we were not familiar with all the formulas. As we go on using it I found it very easy and handy, we doesn’t have to write till our hand pains and it is easy to make changes too. Moreover everything is auto generated we don’t have to prepare separate consolidated result for our mid-term Examination.

While using result soft first I filled in the information than in the SAFA keeping in mind all the marks. Then I entered the marks for each subjects one by one. I made few changes according to my class strength. By using result soft it saved my time as I could finish within short duration. It is very helpful when we have large class strength in our class, though I have 37 children in my class yet I could prepare within short duration.

  

Lastly preparing result in  soft has many advantages, it saves times and it’s easy to use as some of our children and parents are careless in case of lost we can always provide the copy if we use result soft. We can have easy excess for future reference and the documentation. Use of ICT makes our life more comfortable so it’s our role to keep our self-up-to-date with trending technology.