Thanks for Clare, Milly and Angie’s great presentation on ICT. I know you all had gone through some pressure to figure out how to use these online softwares(U will/Hot Potatoes) and resources(Podcast/Webquest) these weeks. Now you three may take a nice break!!!
I feel ICT can do a lot of help to students’ learning if teachers are able to utilize ICT well and guild students how to use it. Like hot potatoes and podcast, they could cater for different levels of learners. Most importantly, students could practice language even outside the classroom. From my perspective, ICT should be a tool to help create more independent learners. That it, students are able to choose what they want to learn and improve and meanwhile decide how much progress they want to make. In addition, ICT like webquest, it is a good method for students to share knowledge and communicate with others. These are quite essential abilities in this modern IT society.
In the end, I’d drop few lines on Alice’ ICT learning journey here.
It’s impressive to learn how Alice got to enter the field of ICT at the very start up to now. I found Alice owned some valuable personalities such as challenging and hardworking,too. So, as teachers-to-be like us, shouldn’t we try to go forward learning new useful stuff instead of feeling timid about the unknown world? Bon courage! And keep on going on the way of our teacher professional development.
alicechiu said,
June 5, 2007 at 10:01 pm
To be honest, I like to try different things to avoid the boredom of the teaching routines in the first place. What’s more, I hate to be labeled as a “traditional” teacher. Don’t get me wrong. I don’t mean to despise traditions at all. It’s just that teachers have been stereotyped by the whole society as a group of conservative people, who are far lagging behind the mainstream of social movement. Teachers are highly respected to some extent, but negative comments about teachers are heard constantly. I think there are many teachers like me, who want to make more contribution by doing something a little bit different from traditions and hopefully, broadening the students’ vision. I’m glad that you find what I show you inspiring. I think you could be inspiration to your students in the future too.