Week Five Personal Reflection

I guess it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to gather that children love computer games and animations. With the internet offering such websites in conjunction with an educational edge, we as future educators will be almost insane to not incorporate these resources within the classroom. With a wide range of different sources available for free use on the internet, students are given the opportunity to explore these websites in the classroom as well as at home for their own personal use.

I strongly believe these are the websites needed to assist in motivating students and allowing the process of individual learning. Incorporating such activities within the classroom allows for children’s creative problem solving skills to enhance, acting as a scaffold for further skills to also substantially develop. This in turn additionally allows for multiple intelligences and offers the flexibility for children to incorporate their multiple intelligences and work at their own individual pace.

Animation within primary schools works in conjunction with the modern methods of communicating information. Students predominantly find repetitive tasks boring and I believe this is the edge needed within classrooms to potentially keep students engaged and motivated. The biggest advantage of such activities is the encouragement of active learning as opposed to the common idea of passive learning.

References:

‘Integrating ICT in Classroom’ Notes prepared by Greg Powell.