Sad to say, I did not get to experience any ICT-enabled learning experience when I was in my schooldays. The masterplans also did not impact my teaching experiences as a teacher during my school attachment, for we focused more on our allocated projects rather than classroom teachings.
I must say I am indeed looking forward to learning more about ICT stuff, to learn and think about how it can help my classroom lessons in the future, how Chinese learning can be made more fun through its use. The use of ICT in teaching makes teaching a more lively process, where there will be lesser teaching by the teacher. The teacher functions more as a guide, to cultivate in students the love for life-long learning, to direct them to e-learning resources and the correct learning direction.
It seems that teaching will be less of a top-down approach, whereby the teacher lectures and feeds an overwhelming amount of information to the students. With ICT-enabled teaching experiences, students get to take charge of their pace and content of learning, but teachers will have to work more closely with the students' parents, to keep in view and be a guide to the child's learning. My view is that ICT would not only increase the students' interest in learning, helps visual learners in their studies, encourage and cultivate life-long learning, in the macro sense, ICT may change the whole traditional concept of the type of top-down lecturing form of education. It will make learning in schools, a more fun and even amiable process.
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