Tuesday, November 27, 2012

What about your student


What about your student

I am teaching high school students between the age group of 15-18. My students have multicultural back ground with average intellectual level. They belong to middle class with strong religious bond. They believe that information available on net is not always reliable.

Their parents consider the use of net as wastage of time and cause of diversion from their regular studies. They attribute sitting on net as unethical. So in this situation it is very difficult for a teacher to motivate the students and clear the doubts of students’ parents.

However, I constantly motivated them and gave them the advice that net itself is neither good nor bad and you have to be positively selective in gathering information from cyberspace. This made them make the effort to break cultural taboos.

After constant encouragement and introduction to the idea of group studies in the class, for a start students were assigned tasks and were asked to teach the class using multimedia. So the student learned the techniques of student centered learning such group studies and peer assessment.

Introduction of blogging technique among the students created great interest and enthusiasm, which not only removed shyness to use the net but also developed more and more interest in the conceptual understanding of the subject and made even non-active students to participate actively. In that way the whole class participated. Some links are given blew as students’ first work:




Some students were more enthusiastic and they developed web sites. One of the link is given below:


Some are on their way and trying to develop website.

Also, now in my class students are assessed by their peers. This further helps to keep my students involved and engaged.

 

 

1 comment:

  1. Hi Annie, it looks like you are inspiring your students to use the net in a very positive, proactive way! Some of the blogs were very informative particularly for me as a non-muslim. One in particular helped me to understand why gambling is haram - so thank you for that. I can clearly see the outcome of your teaching but how are they assessed?

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