When I was a new teacher, I had few expectations for how technology
should be used by my pupils. So I wasn't shy about exploring of technology to help
my pupils become self-directed and engaged learners. In fact, when I first
started teaching, I didn't realize that technology in the classroom wasn't the standard.
But now, just three years in my teaching career, my classroom is seen as a new.
One of my jobs as a teacher is to coach my pupils to learn
for their future life. If I do a good job, my pupils won’t need me anymore.
It’s a part of my life to use media and technology every day
since college. It’s my job to prepare my pupils for their future and life. To create
new products with technology is required in society. For this reason, it’s
normal for me to be innovative and to use technology in the classroom.”
In my teaching experiences, I use many different IT tools
and programs in my classroom. I am familiar with handling new media; I use
various media like MS Word, PowerPoint, and Movie Maker confidently and
effectively in presenting the lesson. They have learned through various means
of communication how to quickly get information and how to communicate with me
as their teacher.”
One time, after my presentation with PowerPoint in English subject,
some of my pupils asked me if it’s possible to create a PowerPoint presentation
for Sibika, too. The result of this second presentation was brilliant. They
learned and enjoyed a lot. In this learning
activity the pupils could be creative and show their strengths and knowledge.
My biggest hope for today’s pupils is that they find their
personal strengths and a lot of inspiring moments to develop new innovations.
Technology helps me typing test papers, quizzes, creating
designs for my bulletin, and other paper works and forms in the school. And the
big benefit that I gained in technology is computing the grades of my pupils. It
helps me to save time computing the grades because when I learned to used
Microsoft Office Excel it is easier for me to quickly compute the grades of my
pupils.
