How ICT Will Be Used in RGS
How ICT Will Be Used in RGS
ICT will be used in RGS during class time and beyond to:
1 . Activate Learning
- Students access different types of media – text, videos, images, models, simulations, animations
- Students are oriented towards the learning objectives either before a lesson at home or at the start of a lesson in class
- Teachers can make lesson materials available online through online platforms such as Edmodo or the RGS Google Domain
- Teachers can conduct a survey or put up an online quiz to gather information on prior knowledge on a topic they are about to start teaching
- Teachers can provide task environments that represent and simulate real-world problems, situations and contexts
-Micro-worlds and simulations
-Virtual/augmented reality
-Role-play simulations - Students have access to online libraries, databases and search engines and can learn independently or be directed to specific sources by their teachers
- Students can communicate with the teacher online to inform on what they have already learned, and what they would like to know more about even before a lesson starts
- Students set goals and targets and organise their own learning (e.g. wikis, blogs, online calendars, email)
2 . Promote Thinking and Discussion
- Students gather live data in authentic contexts
- Probes (provided by the school) are used in some subjects
- Students conduct field work using ICT devices for input
- Students analyse, evaluate and synthesise multiple types of information (e.g. graphic organisers, mind-maps, spreadsheets)
- Students collaborate with their peers both within their class synchronously as well as beyond the class, asynchronously
- Students collaborate with peers from other classes
- Students at times, collaborate with students from other schools and even from other countries
- Students have access to teachers without having to meet them face-to-face
- Students have access to experts beyond the school
3 . Facilitate Demonstration of Learning
- Students create digital products (e.g. video editing software, authoring tools for infographics, slideshows, animations, websites, blogs, e-books, e-portfolios)
- Students can share/communicate information to demonstrate what they have learned with peers, experts, parents and their teachers
4 . Monitor and Provide Feedback
- Teachers can check for understanding using students’ works in different media
- Teachers can give timely and targeted feedback – this would be both generic, directed to the class as a whole, as well as targeted at individual students
- If exercises are done online, real-time feedback can be provided, especially with automated quizzes and adaptive learning tools such as through ACE Learning in Mathematics
- Students can also obtain feedback from peers or experts or even from their parents
- Students are encouraged to give feedback to others
- Students document their learning journey and reflect on goals and learning processes
- Students can track their own progress
- Students can submit their work online through portals such as Turnitin
(Adapted from the Active Learning Cycle, ETD, Ministry of Education, 2016)