Reflections on ICT e-learning week 6th Sep 2007

1. From a learner’s point of view, how was this week’s activity related to the previous weeks' activities? How do you think it is related to what is to come?

This week’s activities was quite similar to the previous week’s lesson planning in a sense that we were still required to find certain ideas and lesson plans that are suitable for ICT and student based learning. However the ideas provided this week are not as detailed as the lesson plans that were being drafted out last week.

This assignment is largely related to the second part of the written assignment that we are supposed to hand up on the week after e-learning week. Most probably the other assignments that are going to arrive in the following weeks would require us to come up with lesson plans to do with student centred learning and the methods to integrate ICT into student centred learning, be it problem based, inquiry based, resource based, game based or case based learning.


2. From a teacher's point of view, how do you think your instructor designed this task? Why was it designed this way? What considerations did he possibly take into account? What can you take away from this experience?

I think that my instructor designed the task in this way in order to have continuity in our learning process. This course is basically all about student centred learning and the integration of ICT tools to make learning more engaging and fun and more student centred as opposed to the traditional teacher centred learning. It was designed in such a way that the students are able to come up with a proper lesson plan incorporating all the aspects of student centred learning together with assimilation of ICT tools. I guess the instructor did not want us to focus too much on the ICT technological aspect but on how it can help lessons to become more student centred.

In this experience, I learnt many different ways of integrating ICT in different lesson plans such as Chemistry or Maths lessons. I hope it will be helpful to me in the future in planning more student centric lessons.