Day 1( 3rd July 2015)

Day 1

The first ICT class began on 3^rd July, 2015 with brief introduction from subject teacher followed by short brain storming session. The focus of brain storming was mainly to find out the participants knowledge, expectations, benefits, importance, setbacks and constraints on ICT related matters. The following are some of the expectations raised from the floors.

ü  Rationale of ICT in education

ü  Benefits of ICT in schools

ü  Developing user friendly teaching learning materials

Shortly after preface session, sir took us through work plan wishing to cover in eighth semester including assessment parts. It was observed quite difficult and hectic at glance. Nonetheless, enthusiasm surged up following eloquent explanation on each sub session. 

The session on digital natives versus digital immigrants was presented taking us through its date of initial inception. The year 1980 onwards were considered digital native and today’s children by virtue falls under this category of high tech-digital user group. Teacher in other hand entails timely update to enable proper guidance on digital natives. The video clip on Digital Natives versus Digital Immigrants was quite informative.

The characteristics of Digital Native Students are as below:

Ø  They receive information very fast

Ø   Multi-tasking all the time

Ø  Prefer visual information over text

This clearly indicates that children of this era are more inclined towards digital usage whereby their congenital developments are parallel to digital advancement.

The Digital Immigrants are over the age of thirty and as they are into the digital world they are trying to adopt many aspects of new technology. It is said that digital immigrants can build the skills with daily practice and use. Some of the characteristics of Digital Immigrants:

·         Controlled release of information

·         Single or focused task

·         Prefer text than graphics

After having watched the video clip, I felt that there exist reasonable gap between Digital natives and digital immigrants. It is paramount to fill the gap when it comes to teaching domains. Digital Immigrants should update on digital advancement for pragmatic utility.

The word “horribly boring” depicts the students are simply inattentive because they find the teachings mundane. To cater digital native students proactively, we need to redefine our teaching and learning process in line with best available high tech ICT facilities. It is obvious that digital native prefer graphics, animation, real objects than fictitious facts and figures. Teaching in the form of audio-visuals needs to come up to fill the gap of digital native student