I've never been an overly tech-savvy person. I tend to just play around with programs and applications until I figure them out in a hands-on approach to learning. The first workshop was very hands-on, navigating our way around the Inspiration program and creating our own blog page. These processes encouraged us to express thoughts and ideas in a creative way, incorporating broader ICT applications and processes such as retrieving information and pictures etc from other ICT sources and combining them in our own virtual concept map.
Notions of ICT have positive aspirations for the primary classroom. We are living in a technological era where ICT skills are prominent across many everyday circumstances. Social networking sites, email, internet banking, research, even looking up maps opposed to using the good old melways, are all examples of the technology we rely on regularly. In our objective as primary school teachers, to prepare students with knowledge and skills useful and important for their futures in global society, it is important we support children’s comprehension of information and communication technologies as they have become practical life skills.
Programs such as blogs can support children in the accessibility of information within a stimulating discourse in regards to a particular subject or issue. Creating blogs gives students the opportunity to be abstract in their thinking and creativity and can incorporate sound and music extend this opportunity. Blogs can be accessible to teachers, students and families; a relative issue about the student personally and/or academically can be monitored by all parties supporting their individual developmental journey.
ICT is an engaging, exploratory and useful tool for the learning student. It can be fun and creative and open up almost unlimited possibilities and information. I want to support skills useful in ICT for my students by devising a pedagogy which incorporates ICT across the curriculum in an enjoyable and functional way.
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