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The lecture for today was started by the presentation by Ms Chin regarding the ICT and learning principles in primary classroom learning, which I find very useful for us since we are going to deal with ICT in our future teaching. The way the ICT is used in dealing with the principles of the primary curriculum is very useful in classroom practice, since there are massive advantages of integrating ICT in the classroom to support learning process. The use of internet, audio and video in learning may attract students’ attention and prolong their attention span, which will give a good impact towards their learning. Besides that, teacher can use ICT for problem solving, which will sharpen students’ level of creativity in thinking.

Then, the lecture was taken over by Prof Maznah, who is more focusing on our SMART BOARD assignment. The main reference used was a text on the use of interactive whiteboard in schools by Tolley. I realised that it is very important to understand and implement what is written in the text, since it is very much helpful in this assignment. For instance, it is a requirement for us to use and integrate some of the 12 teaching strategies in our presentation, for instance brainstorms, simulations, video shots and others. This will be a bit challenging for me since I am not quite familiar with some of the strategies, but I will take it positively and try to integrate it in my presentation. This is good in the sense that it trained us to be more practical in our presentation, since all these strategies were based on research and practice in the real classroom. Besides that, the text also stressed on the level of interactivity in the classroom, which is crucial especially in the primary classroom. Many of the teachers are just focusing on the finishing the syllabus in the classroom without paying much attention on the participation of students in the classroom activity. This is wrong in the sense that participation of students is one of the good proof that illustrate the understanding of the students in the classroom.

In addition, a lot of thinking was needed for this assignment since there is a need to adopt teaching and learning model such as ADDIE model and Dick Carey model in the presentation, besides learning theories such as behaviourism, cognitivism and constructivism. This make me realised that this assignment is really like real classroom application for me, and some readings need to be made in order to get a clear view of how to integrate the learning theories in this SMARTBOARD presentation. Therefore, I need to be more creative and innovative in manipulating all the resources around me and make use of it in my presentation. The presentation must be clear, challenging, interactive, and the most challenging part I think is where we have to rationalize whatever we present in the assignment.

This assignment is really a challenge for me and I am now in the process of exploring this new technology in order to be implemented in the real classroom.