7th week

This 7th week, we learned about “ICT And The Learning Principles Of The Primary School Curriculum”. I think, this topic is really beneficial for all educators. In Malaysia context, the integration of ICT in education is not really vast due to certain unavoidable problems. However, towards the developing of ICT in our country, everybody especially educators should know about this. Firstly, we should understand the three fundamental approaches in using ICT which are Learning about ICT, Learning with ICT and Learning through ICT. Before able to use it, we should know well how ICT can help us. Then only we can exploit the use of it to the most. Yet, learners or children should be exposed to this approaches also as they were our core product. In order for our country to develop as an ICT country with ICT literate citizens, learning using ICT play great role. This is one ways for children to be more open minded in learning. For instance, through ICT, they can be encouraged to be more independent learner as to find further information in the internet. They also can be exposed to distant learning and conference. Thus, they will not feel reluctant to use ICT for educational purposes. It is not to be used as entertainment purposes only. Further more, using ICT, teachers can enhance their teaching as they can adapt and adopt various latest teaching and learning technique from internet and by using ICT tools. This will help them to ensure the progression of students parallel with the needs of current requirement.
So, start updates our ICT knowledge so that we can impart the knowledge to our students and share with them. We shoulder a great responsibility to ensure our next generation is ICT literate.