blog 3 making connection between your ese and the masterplans for ict in education

For your third post, describe which achievement(s) of the three masterplans for ICT in education are evident in the school/classes that you are attached to for your ESE.

Most students have shown that they possess the necessary skills to complete ICT-based projects/assignments. Many of the primary five and six students are tech-savvy enough to participate actively in the podcast exercises that the mother tongue department has pioneered. In these exercises, students would recite an oral passage in the manner they would during an actual examination and record it using podcasts. Their friends would then listen to these podcasts and advise each other under the supervision of the mother tongue teachers. The other levels have their respective ICT projects such as producing a simple powerpoint presentation at the primary 3 level and so on.

Most students are competent in the use of the Internet and simple word processing. Admittedly, due to the demographics of the student population in my school, there are still many lower primary students who are unfamiliar with using the computer. They would require assistance with switching on the computers or accessing the programs required for the lessons.

All full time teachers have the basic competencies in incorporating ICT in their lessons, and are receptive of using ICT as a pedagogical tool. Many FAs are not trained in IT and are not keen to using ICT in their lessons though. It might not be an easy task training them in using ICT as according to Erikson's Life-Spanish Development Theory, certain skills have to be attained at certain stages of life.

The provision of the necessary physical and ICT infrastructure for ICT-based teaching and learning with the proper networking and student to computer ratio is also evident.

In conclusion, my school had, at the time of writing, attained the achievements of Masterplan 2 to a certain degree but is still a distance away from those of Masterplan 3.