Class V, Social Studies
Topic: Different
Countries and their flags
On 7th October
in 5th period I taught class V social Studies on the topic different
countries and their flags. The reading on the topic from the text book was done
in the previous session and right after recapitulation went for the activity
part. In the activity aside from what was given in the text went for the google
search by the children themselves in groups of 3 to 4 students in a group.
Since our school do not have computer lab, I borrowed the laptops from my
fellow teacher friends and used pocket wifi which is commonly known as Dongle
form Bhutan Telecom which can be shared by ten users.
In group I assigned to
choose five different countries of their choice and find out about their flags.
Before allowing children to start searching in the google search I collected
the name of countries the group has chosen as to avoid double selection. Then I
instructed the children to search the flag of their chosen country. Since
children already knows how to use google search engine I didn’t talk much about
the google usage. Rather I asked all the group to find out the national flag of
their chosen countries and draw against their name in their note book.
I asked each group
members to use the laptop turn wise to find out as I could not provide a laptop
to each child. After instruction I also did good monitoring and helped to needy
ones in technical facilities. During the course of the activity children didn’t
face much problem in using the tool as they were well acquainted with the
google search in the smart phone at home. However few children were not able to
handle the laptop properly and at times required my attention. But all my
children tried their best to use the facilities and result was awesome as all
the groups where able to complete the task on time with good quality.
Now a days due to ICT
development especially usage of smart phones our children were able to use some
basic ICT tools correctly like google search, YouTube and online dictionaries,
however we as a teacher to educate the user on the impact of ICT too. Sometimes
they may miss use the tool which may led to negative impact in their learning.
We can make the tool usable with our proper guidance and instruction as google
search has many advantages such as time saving, accurate information, paper
less tool, collaboration learning, and engagement etc. in my next attempt I
would like to try and use other tool such as You Tube in my ICT integration
lesson.
Thank You
Tenzin Wangchuk
06160372
May I request all my esteem collegues to provide comments on my post to improve my teaching
ReplyDeleteWow! Good idea of teaching about flags of different countries. Though I have taught the similar topic "National Flag" where they need to explore on flag of different countries, selection of a country by each child was done like you but couldn't think of using ICT tools, I instead i used Atlas book from store. Where they can see the flags of different countries in different continents. Wanted to steal your ideas in future.... Great work.... Cheers
ReplyDeleteGreat lesson and well taught sir. The topic itself is so interesting to teach using ICT tools and facilities.
ReplyDeleteHere students have many options to learn from like text book, atlas and internet, great work with lots of additional and latest sources to learn, good work sir.
Keep the same spirit alive always sir...
Felt proud with your teaching and sharing sir. You have used laptops and pocket wifi borrowing from telecom. But what is that pocket wifi, please share little more information regarding this.
ReplyDeleteBut, you have really made your ICT integrated teaching learning meaningful and worth learning. Your students are lucky to have you there in their class sir.
Thumps up..
You took much pain to prepare your lesson but you found other alternatives to present your lesson. It's good to know that you tried your best to encourage your children in learning by doing. Hope they did good job in finding the flags of chosen countries.
ReplyDeleteICT gives the correct teaching aid than what is prepared on the chart paper by the teacher. A prepared teaching aid on chart paper sometimes cannot have exactly the same colour and shape as it really is. You had done it with ICT. Keep going la.
ReplyDeletePeople usually complain of what is not available but you did a great work by making things accessible which is not in place. Great work sir. And making children browse net by themselves is another good initiative. Since all our text books are not updated, sometimes the information given in it were not reliable, so making children browse not to get information is a better idea.
ReplyDeleteYou have a lively lesson by providing laptop for each group to browse themselves in order to achieve the goal of the lesson
ReplyDeleteVery good topic chosen.
ReplyDeleteChildren will have more options and also the best part was you tried to arrange the laptops.
Children must have learned much..
Great job.
You have done a great work by providing pocket wifi and laptops to explore to the out side world. They got chance to see real flags of different countries. The pronlem of ICT lab and internet is same in every school. Still than great job. Keep going
ReplyDeleteEnriching lesson sir
ReplyDeleteI am extremely happy to read your valuable sharing here. Though I don't teach upper primary classes yet i got some ideas to handle them by your ideas. Keep going sir
ReplyDeleteGood lesson. Such mode of delivery would certainly help children learn the best possible manner. Good integration of ICT application.
ReplyDeleteIct integration through google search by students was great.Students fiddled themselves and were given chance to every child.It seems great la...
ReplyDeleteEnjoyed reading your post. I came to learn how we can use ICT in teaching such topics. With your ideas, I am sure I can use it to my students here. Keep going
ReplyDeleteWow great idea for letting your children to search using ICT facilities.
ReplyDeleteIts very enriching and informative to go through your post.Keep it up! Keep exploring more ideas in future too.
ReplyDeleteGreat initiative taken to teach on flag of countries despite shortage of ict facilities in your school. I too did in a similar way to explore my students to use ict in their learning.
ReplyDeleteIts very enriching and informative to go through your post.Integration of ICT in lesson will definitely have great impact for learners.Keep exploring more ideas in future too. You have taken a great initiative.
ReplyDeleteGood management of ICT materials in the class.great idea sir
ReplyDeleteUsing laptops and Google for information is really enriching.
ReplyDeleteWorth sharing sir. I learned so many ideas from your post la. Dedicated teachers always look for the welbeing of others. You have used personal laptop for the beneficial of our learners. Beaides that you have used pocket wifi which is quite new to me. If you could elaborate more on pocket wifi it would be of great help la.
ReplyDeleteThere is pocket wifi which can be use with sim both post and prepaid facilities with 4G net work which has faster net than our normal phone and can be shared by a maximum of 10 user. It commonly called as Dongle....its portable and very convenient to use...it can be used in computers...laptops and our personal cell phones...it cost Nu.3250...its accessible in all the BT counters
DeleteThank you
Very enriching and informative post. I am sure children have learnt better by exploring.
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