Use of ICT in Learning and Teaching

  Chapter 12: Exploring ISTE Standards for Students “Global Collaborator” - Part 9 Date/Time: 15th May 2024 Wednesday- 11:54 pm & 16th May 2024 Thursday - 5:23 am This is another interesting post exploring a new ISTE Standard “Global Collaborator”. The post will reflect my key learning from this module of the online ISTE Student Standards course. As always it was a great learning experience and it helped build a lot of clarity about the global collaborator standard. We live in an ever changing world of technology and it is pivotal that both students and teachers are not efficient users of technology but are well aware of how to use technology to collaborate with their global peers to achieve their goals. Each one of us has access to loads of technology around us, what is important is how we can use it to gain access to diverse opinions and global perspectives. This standard too has four indicators and I will try to explain each in detail with examples. Let’s start exploring this am

  Chapter 11: Exploring OER Open Education Resources and their implication on Education  Date/Time: 9th May 2024 Thursday 12:38 am - 10th May 2024 Friday 4:43 am This is an interesting post about OER Open Education Resources. I came across OER while skimming through content of module 7 of the ISTE online course on Student Standards. Though I might have heard the term before, I could not remember much. This post will highlight the purpose of OER and how useful these can be for both students and teachers. Let’s begin exploring OER. OER basically means online resources that are freely available for use on a public domain, these can be in different formats that include videos, text, audio, tutorials etc. These resources can be used for research purposes, for teaching and learning purposes also. These resources are free of cost, can be easily accessed online, repurposed, adapted and distributed online. It is a form of sharing information and knowledge and making it accessible to a wider aud

  Chapter 10: Exploring ISTE Standards for Students “Creative Communicator” - Part 8 Date/Time: 7th May 2024 Tuesday 1:13 pm - 8th May 2024 Wednesday 4:27 am This is another interesting blog based on my learning from the 7th module of the ISTE course about “Students Standards”. This module explored the “Creative Communicator” standard. The standard is important for all students, it focuses on not only creatively and innovatively conveying a message to the audience, but considering how the message would be perceived by the audience. It explores various digital formats of presenting or sharing the information with the audience. It also explains the importance of crediting a source. It looks into copyright and licensing concerns while remixing or reusing content created by someone else. This standard has four indicators and I will try to explain each with examples. ISTE Standard Creative Communicator 1.6 says that the students must be able to express themselves in different digital format

  Chapter 9: Teaching Nouns to primary students creatively using Tangrams and Puzzles Date/Time: 1st May 2024 Wednesday 4:42 am / 1st May 2024 Wednesday 7:28 pm This is yet another very interesting post about enhancing teaching and learning using technology creatively. This post is based on my experience of working voluntarily with the amazing learners at the Ranaa Child Welfare Foundation in Peshawar, a school for street children. The lesson was about teaching nouns and I had to think about teaching nouns in a not so traditional way. I came across the idea of using tangrams (chinese puzzles - a set of 7 shapes ) that could be used to teach nouns. This was something very different and I don’t remember being taught in this way. The lesson started with the discussion about different objects in the classroom. The learners came with different objects they see in class. These were sorted into different categories like person, place, animal or thing. As a whole class we came up with a defini