Plan for Using ICT for Teaching and Learning

In this era also can not separated from technology in every sector and technology is importent and we need it to know how to use it in this era for make our work easier, for information, knowledge and also entertaintment. And also in education, it needs and importent to implementation in teavhing-learning. One of the greatest problems facing teachers, particularly primary school teachers, is planning ICT activities that can help children develop their ICT capabilities. The development of ICT capability is significant for several reasons -1. Children live in an ICT-dominated society and therefore, need to become proficient users in ICT; 2. Current curricula including the Australian one embed opportunities throughout Learning Areas to do so and; 3. Effective planning for using ICT in teaching and learning can ensure that all children have access to a broad and balanced curriculum

How abot the plan teaching-learning using ICT ?

The key principles you need to remember when you plan for using ICT for teaching include:

1.      Have high expectations – this means knowing where the students are up to in the first place;

2.      You need to have a secure knowledge and understanding of your subject and relevant pedagogies;

3.      You need plan to develop every component of ICT capability;

4.      Use a range of evidence-based ICT teaching strategies;

5.      Plan for a safe and purposeful learning environment;

6.      Ensure that other adult helpers in the classroom are briefed.

What do you need to consider when you plan for using ICT for teaching and learning?

Here are some things for you to consider when you want to plan for using ICT for teaching and learning in your classroom.

·         Have you conducted a thorough analysis of the situation?

Effective teaching depends on effective planning and this in turn, relies heavily on you conducting a thorough analysis of the situation. For there to be an optimal lesson with ICT you need to have clear learning goals, provide a supportive social context for learning, enable students to engage in the learning process in a number of different ways, help students contextualise the content in terms of their own experience and knowledge, and be willing to modify learning tasks in the light of student circumstances.

·         Understand how students learn with ICT

Before you even begin to plan on using ICT for teaching, it is vital that you understand how your students learn with ICT. You must learn how to match the ICT resource to the intended learning and how ICT relates to other key skills.

·         Decide on the role you want ICT to play in the activity

Do you want the students to use the ICT in the activity to develop their ICT capability, to support learning in another area of the curriculum or both? Ultimately, you should aim to have the students use ICT to support the subject context learning whilst remaining transparent in the background and developing their ICT capability.

·         Reflect on the impact of learning styles in education and the role of ICT within them

The main problem is not only the abundance of models, but also the competing benefits of successful use. ICT has the capability to provide high quality visual and auditory materials, however, the justification for their use should not just be that they match a single learning style.

·         Are there opportunities for you to assess children’s ICT competence?

Good planning should create assessment opportunities because good assessment informs good planning.