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)