Reflection on ICT
March 17, 2008
ICT (Information, Communication, Technology) of course has its effects on not only teaching but also learning English. For teachers, it provides a platform making teaching more active and more interesting. For learners, (include teachers too) ICT also offers lots of information to digest and to absorb themselves.
Yet, teaching English with ICT has precondition. A part of ICT is “information.” Before introducing it in class, teachers have to evaluate and to make sure that the information on websites is appropriate and indeed helpful to learners. Also, how to present the information is another issue— to think beforehand how to make use of ICT and how to give a fluent presentation is necessary. And this is what I need to learn.
April 13, 2008 at 9:45 pm
It’s crucial that both the teacher and the learners know how to evaluate the resources on the Internet. Searching “how to evaluate websites” and then we get 18,600,000 results. If you add “site:edu” after the key phrase, it would pop up only 176 results. In this aspect, I won’t say “the more, the better.” Instead, I believe the educational site would provide us with more reliable information. I think this is one of the ways to choose websites. If you need to learn more how to evaluate websites, the first link in the result list is recommended.