ICT
Reflection for the month of September 2020.
Considering the present situation, I have to teach
and lecture online to my students. In fact all school in our country suspended
in-class instruction due to the coronavirus pandemic. In maximum frequency I
took online classes for the class four to six grades. Based on my experience I
could say that online instruction has real value in some settings. We the
teachers has the interaction with the children and has interactive classes. It
also provides the learners to explore knowledge beyond the classroom settings.
I could say that online teaching works well and has good
discussion, especially if everyone is motivated and prepared. If there are
10-12 students or fewer, it’s fairly easy to keep track of everyone and has
good interaction as in person. By contrast, things are tougher with the large
number of learners. In large number of learners it is hard to gauge how more
than a small fraction of learner is reacting to you, and also hard to manage
the discussion. Effective instruction often depends on maintaining the learners
and being able to gauge how well the learner are absorbing what the teacher has
taught. Sometimes I also did the lecture followed by questions approach, which
makes things easier. Even so, lack of eye contact with most of the learners
made it hard to gauge things. And managing the questions was harder than it
would be in a classroom.
Another thing I could say is, students have bit
trouble interacting with each other when they can’t see more than a fraction of
classmates at once. That, too, is an impediment to effective discussion. But,
later in future when the teachers and students are familiar with this current
situation then I think there won’t be any issues in the teaching process. Some
of these problems will be diminished as people get more used to the systems.
The online teaching may be more effective in future when students and faculty
have more time to prepare for it.
However, the students often have great difficulties
to propose their own solutions. Even though till now maximum of the students
are familiar with the system and few of them are really doing good. Of course, the problem that many students do
not attend my lecture and classes due to the lack of materials. Some of them
were not able to afford the materials that is used in the online teaching. So,
to support these students for their learning the teachers used to visit their
house once a week to deliver door to door teaching.
Parsuram Mukhia, DE B, III.
Some the activity that are carried out:
