Sharing My Memorable IT Experience before Christmas! 🎅🎄❄️🌠
Ho-ho-ho! Merry Christmas, Joyers! 😆🎄🎄🎅🎅
Ups, yes, it’s already December, but maybe it’s too soon to
celebrate Christmas now. Haha!
Anyway, how have you been this week, Joyers? I hope that you
are in a good condition. Moreover, today, I’ll share one of my unforgettable experiences
about technology infusion in learning from my elementary school time. 👩💻💻
So here is the story. I remember clearly that my mathematics teacher in my 5th grade taught my friends and me about fractions using a very engaging PowerPoint presentation file. The PowerPoint file had abundant illustrations like the picture of a boy thinking, a girl eating or bringing apples, food like pizzas, and cute animals. Every time my teacher clicked his mouse to go to the next page, in every slide, each illustration would move, flicker, and make sounds. He also always told us to paid attention to the illustrations, like “Look at that boy. Why did he look so happy? What are the pinguins doing?”
This memory couldn’t be erased from my mind that the young
me who was sitting in the back of the class and who loved to talk with my
friends in a soft voice during the class could not put away my eyes from the
screen projector when my teacher was taught me about fractions. It felt as if
my eyes were glued to it. The lesson media just looked and sounded very interesting
and amazing to me.
I believe that my teacher’s intention is good as he knows
the inclination of young learners that not all of them love learning mathematics,
so he tried to create the learning medias as interesting as possible to engage
the students by providing abundant illustrations suitable for each slide and
the sounds. Now, I feel like I can’t appreciate him more that he prepared the
lesson very neatly like that. I believe that his purpose in explaining the
lesson through that very appealing PPT file came through a long time of
preparation.
Besides that, when I am reminiscing this experience now, my
teacher’s teaching using this PPT is already great. Why? Because my school is
in a village, and it was around 2013. Moreover, in that very year, Canva was just
launched. It was just so great that my teacher was able to design that learning
media with those illustrations and sounds by using a PowerPoint app only, not Canva.
I guess that he downloaded the pictures from the internet, converted them into
png, erased the backgrounds, and add transition and animations to each. I believe
that he could do it by understanding PowerPoint app so well, to be able to
create that because even I don’t know how to do that. I actually even don’t
want to do it because it’s easier if I use Canva.
Another aspect of the lesson which was already good were like
what I mentioned above that in each slide, there would be one or more illustration.
He also mentioned the illustration and invited us to pay attention to it.
Nevertheless, about this learning experience and what my
teacher did, there are also some things he should have improved. Firstly, he
should have chosen more beautiful pictures/illustrations because all pictures have
monotonous colour and colouring type. However, about this, I will just accept
it because it was in 2013 when the technology was not so modern like nowadays.
Moreover and most importantly, there is this one thing that my teacher should
have really improved back then. It is about his pace when explaining the
material. I felt that he moved to one slide to another too fast. He also didn’t
engage with all students, especially all who were sitting in the back. Some of
my friends in the back was less called or asked during the lesson because after
the students sitting at front already answered, my teacher would continue to
the next slide and deem that all students already understood. Also, maybe it’s
due to the limited instructional hours that making him couldn’t call all
students and just continued when he thought that it was the right time.
Truly, in short, it is just my opinion that although how
good the learning is but the delivering method and techniques can’t accommodate
all students' needs, it won’t be a very successful learning. Then, when these
things are put aside, I really want to appreciate my teacher because no matter
what, I still learned something from him, and I want to appreciate his effort in
preparing the learning media; this very engaging PowerPoint presentation file. 😊🙏
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