Today I Learn, Today I Question

                                           

     Today’s lesson was a bit different as usual because madam Ng is using a new device in our class; it is the smart board. This is the first time I saw someone operating the smart board, it is amazing! I think it is best if I can use it to teach in my school as well, haha…

     Madam Ng has introduced a few online and offline game websites to us which we can use as our teaching aids in class to attract students interest to learn. Besides that, she also showed us how to use the You Tube to teach in class, by signing in to the You Tube account, we can write a description for a video and students can learn from the description before they watch the video. We can also make our own video and upload to the You Tube as our teaching aid.

     In the discussion section, we discussed about the chapter 5 “ Technologies of online learning” using the chat room created in the moodle. I was the one who participate  least in the conversation, this is because I spent so much time on reading what my classmates had written, and when I was about to type in my own opinion, others had already inserted what they want to say and I have to read again, so, end up I don’t know what should I say since everyone has contributed a lot …Actually I am a slow thinker, this is why I always keep quiet in the class. However, the chat session is useful to me because I came to know some interactive webs which are very useful in teaching and learning, such like You Tube, Wikispaces, Webnode, Facebook etc. I found myself very lack in using all these available teaching tools in my class, I must learn from my classmates, so that I can apply in my teaching and learning in the future.

        The last session of this lesson was Ng’s presentation. He shared a lot of information about the history and development of internet with us, he has done a good job, to me, this is an eye-opened presentation because I found that there are a lot of  new things I only came to know after the presentation, I must admit I am an outdated person…

       Lastly, I have a question regarding the effectiveness in using the websites for T&L purpose. I always hear the parents complaint about their kids spent too much time on the internet, are they, the teenagers nowadays able to learn what they have to learn online without distraction or they are wasting they time chatting with someone online, looking at all those nonsence things, watching videos etc. How are we, as the educators control the students to make sure they are using the internet with learning purpose and not the entertaiment purpose ???