Science Education:

HOW DO SCIENCE TEACHER USE ICT? HOW CAN SCIENCE TEACHER USE ICT?

Nowadays ICT plays a major role in education system. Schools in Brunei are equipped with projectors, visualisers, smartboards, computer laboratory, and etc, to enhance teaching and learning skills. Last semester, i went for Teaching Practice at Sekolah Menengah Pengiran Isteri Hajah Mariam (Serasa School). This school has a few rooms that are equipped with smartboard facilities.
I was given a year 10 class to teach for the Combined Science subject. Therefore, i make use of the facilities provided to deliver my lessons. I prepared powerpoint slides and some animated diagrams for my lesson. During the lesson, i can see that students are very active and keen to answer the questions from the slides, as i make use of some colourful pictures and animations on certain diagrams. I believe students can learned better with colourful and animated powerpoint slides rather than just chalk and talk. To my surprise, some students find the 50 mins lesson (2 periods) short and fast. This shows that the lesson was very interesting and they do enjoy learning from those colourful diagrams and animations that they don't feel the time.
Another interesting topic to teach is on water cycle. Aminations can be used to show students on how the water cycle goes starting from the different processes such as condensation, evaporation, precipitation and surface runoff and etc, thus this produces a complete water cycle and would be very easy for the students to understand through colourful and animations presentations.