Use of ICT in teaching and learning Math, Grade II   

Send the video on measuring mass through WeChat with the instructions as below:

Instructions:

1. Watch the video on measuring mass carefully 

2. list the words use to measure the mass in your notebook.

3. Complete the worksheet given below correctly

The ICT integration here is the students using smartphones which they will download  and play to watch the video. To many kids simply knowing how to download and play video itself is challenging. This is the simple steps to fiddle the smartphones and takes to next level learning ICT.

Students will complete the activity on measuring mass after watching the video. These activities has been extracted from the self instructional materials provided by the MoE.

Students work 

Students being able to fiddle the smart phones as source of  learning results in productive outcomes. Here students using phones to view the task assigned by the teacher, read the instructions by themselves and carryout the activity accordingly. Next take snap shots of their and return through WeChat itself. 

Reflection

    In the light of recent covid-19 pandemic, it has made every people to stay at home. The schools across our country was also shut down to prevent from the pandemic nevertheless student’s education was not compromised due to the lockdown. Even though online class is new to both the teachers and students it’s vital in students learning. Therefore, various social media platform was made to explore, adopted different strategies to learn through online.

    In my first post, I reflected on teachers adopting various social medias in helping students to learn. Keeping student's convenient in consideration, they were allowed to use the social media of their choice as a source of learning. This time I emphases on use of ICT in particular social media, WeChat. Since I too teach grade II, and WeChat is popular and widely used.

    Through WeChat, both teachers and students can write message, voice message and most probably guide through video call to help in completing their work if necessary. There are parents who are illiterate and couldn't understand what the written text actually meant, I have send the instructions to particular parents in their language to further help in carrying out student's activity meaningfully. 

    When the students master the particular use of  social media, they become more familiar and enhance their skills.  It promotes intellectual of the child through higher order thinking, improve problem-solving skills, improve communication skills and increase the exploration of knowledge through various media. As a teacher we must give them a dais to explore, to cope and to adopt to demand of the environment.