Use of ICT in Learning and Teaching

 ISTE Standards for Technology in Education ISTE Standards for Technology in Education This blog post will introduce teachers to the ISTE Standards for technology in education.  There are two types of standards available, for teachers and for educators. We will be looking  at the ISTE standards for students in this blog post. As teachers you will skim through all ISTE Standards and write your own reflection  in the form of a blog about how you can apply these standards in your class.  These standards are the following: Empowered Learner Digital Citizen Computational Thinker Knowledge Constructor Innovator Designer Global Collaborator Creative Communicator These standards help develop a deeper understanding of how to effectively integrate technology  in the curriculum. It helps students understand how and when to use technology meaningfully.  It paves a way for them to become life long learners and develop 21st century skills like  communication, c...

Lets Kahoot It :) Date: 22nd June 2022 This is another interesting blog post on a very interesting edtech tool online known as Kahoot. Kahoot is an online game based learning platform used as education technology in schools. Teachers can create interactive quizzes about a variety of topics and share with students who can complete them at their own time and space using any device available at home or at school.   You can create your own Kahoots consisting of different questions. These can be true/false, MCQs, Puzzle, brainstorming ideas about a topic and so on. It hardly takes minutes to create a new Kahoot. You can host za Kahoot live in class or share link and game pin with the students. Every Kahoot has scores assigned, so students get points on Kahoots. The students log in to a different device and play the game, while the teacher can see responses on her own device. You can assign Kahoots to students, you can share them in Microsoft Teams.  Kahoot lets you create quizzes ...

Formative Assessment, Effective Feedback and EDTech Tools - Part 2 Date: 31st May 2022 Welcome to the second blog post exploring the various edtech tools that can be used to create innovative formative assessments online. The previous post explored formative assessments and the importance of feedback. This post will share various tools and how these can be used to create assessments online. Also we will be looking at how to give feedback using these tools online. Let begin by explore each tool individually: Some of the tools that I explored included WordArt, Yacapaga, Vocaro,WeVideo, Formative , Seesaw, Socrative, NearPod & Quizalize. Each of these has a different set of features that makes it different from the other. My review of each would be based on the following features: Ease of use - interface (login/logoff) Accessibility Availability on multiple devices (mobiles, desktops, laptops)  Interactivity Feedback features Data Analysis Graphics Simple to challenging tasks...

Formative Assessment, Effective Feedback and EDTech Tools - Part 1 Date: 27th May 2022/Friday Welcome to another interesting new blog post about formative assessments in schools, followed by effective feedback and the role of edtech tools in creating innovative formative assessments. We will begin by refreshing and exploring a little more about formative assessments. Then we will discuss effective ways of giving feedback to students. This will be followed by exploring a few edtech that are freely available that can be used to create innovative and personalized formative assessments. So what are formative assessments? why are they important? how are they different from summative assessments? when should we take formative assessments? what should the teachers do after formative assessments? Formative assessments are basically ongoing and taken at regular intervals during the school year. These can be taken once the unit is completed or even in the midst to checking for understanding. The...