Connection between ESE & the Masterplans for ICT

Describe how the achievement(s) of the three Masterplans for the ICT in education are evident in the school/ classes that you are attached to for your ESE.

In my opinion, I think my school has done well in the Masterplans for ICT in education. In terms of infrastructure, our school has three computer labs catered for day-to-day teaching. On top of that, there is also a library/ research corner for students to use during their free time. Each teacher is given a laptop for use. Besides, all the classroom has a computer and also a visualiser for the teacher’s use when need arises. This encourages the teachers to use ICT resources in their teaching.

For the students, there are minimally 2 lessons plan each term, called the ‘ICT baseline’, where the teachers will impart computer skills to the students in any of the subjects. Some examples include asking the P4 students to search on dfferent search engines the meaning of geyser and presenting the information in table forms, or creating art pieces with the program Fireworks.

Teachers are also able to leverage on online resources like Lead.com and students generally enjoy going to computer classes. For example in Mathematics classes, the students prefer going to ZoobaIsland for practices to papers. I feel that computer programs like this stimulates the students’ thinking further as compared to just sitting in classrooms and doing the revision papers.

In Mrs Khoo’s class which I blogged about in the first post, it is evident that the students in this case already exhibit characteristics of being self-directed learners.

After that particular mobile trail, I did sit in for the post discussion. The discussion was lively, students have a lot of questions for the teacher and you can see that they want to know more and some of them are even able to generate ideas to answer to their peers’ question without the help of the teacher. This goes in line with the goal of Masterplan 3 where the students work as a community through collaborative learning with the use of ICT.