13th week class reflection

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Since the advent of the new era of globalization, knowledge and skills that are not possible before in the old days is now possible. Thanks to the knowledge explosion through internet and innovation of computers, our education sphere have revolutionized and this created a new generation of pupils who have technology awareness as well as demanding need for the use of technological material and resources in the their learning process. This in turn propelled teacher, school administrators, ministry of education and policy makers to adopt new approach which in parallel with the changes in the global educational scenario.

Replicating this effort of revolutionizing the education scenario in our country was the use of software that contains interesting games and activity. In particular, children educational software provides effective means for the pupils to enjoy the experience of learning suitable with their age level, interest as well as learning preferences. The thirteenth class explores on this technology benefit by introducing the characteristic of effective educational software such as the need for the software used in the classroom to be in congruent with the curriculum and the lesson taught. Software that contains simple and easy games promotes improvements of learning from the ordinary traditional method of chalk and talk. In addition, it also promotes critical and creative thinking as well as problem solving skills that are deemed impossible with the use of old method. One of research finding suggested that, pupils are able to improve their learning of specific knowledge and skills, better concentration and effective utilization of critical and creative thinking skills much better in the longer term than the pupils who did not experience the technology use in their classroom.

Even though it has been a while since the introduction of this technology in school, it is apparent that some school was not able to fully utilize it in order to improve their teaching and learning process in the classroom. This may have been due to some inevitable factors such as teachers’ incompetence in the computer utilization, lack of facility, constrains of time and copyright matters. All this hinder the progression of our education move towards world class education standard.

In a nut shell, technology utilization in particular through children software will keep on changing and evolving. It is up to all the parties concerned to take on the wise decision and effective effort in order to produce best result for the benefit of our education field.