OK I am writing week 1's assignment now. So sorry for the jumble up because only after writing out week 2's work, I realised that there are some questions from week 1 which I have yet to answer. lol. So bear with my nonsense hehe.
Anyways,
Find answers to these questions:
1. What is ICT? Why integrate ICT in education?
- From my understanding on what ICT is, I think that it is the process whereby students get an oppurtunity to work with IT as well and not just entirely the teacher. What I mean is that, for example, a powerpoint presentation to me is NOT ICT as it is entirely controlled by the teacher. Students do not get to explore it as they just sit and watch the slides go by. However, bringing a class to a computer lab to interact with various softwares and design things is a good example of ICT usage within a classroom.
The reason why MOE integrates ICT into education is to broaden the student's capabilities and awareness towards the IT world. IT is a very essential part of today's world and if students are not equipped with IT skills, it will post as a threat to them in the future when they take on jobs of their own as most jobs require one to have IT skills.
2. Meaningful learning to me is when a child gets nurtured and develops physically, cognitively and socially. When a child is nurtured in all areas, not just academically. Also, within the academic scope, the child gets to experience and work with various 'tools' and softwares and education is not the same sturctured way of the students sitting and the teacher standing and talking infront of the class.
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