Our group's first meeting was held on the 20th of March, Saturday, 2pm at Yunxuan's house. We polished up the Mock presentation and decided on Civics and Moral Education (CME) as the common CS for lesson ideas. CS Chinese was not selected as we wanted to introduce novelty to the teaching of CME. We decided to expand the lesson idea from the mock presentation and agreed on using "Responsibility" as the theme for the entire lesson idea PowerPoint package.
We browsed through the MOE 2007 CME syllabus and saw that there are 4 sub-topics under Responsibility. Out of the 4 sub-topics, we chose 3 and agreed that each of us would take charge of one of them. Then, we went through the Lesson Idea Summary and set objectives to be fulfilled through the activities. We also brainstormed for lesson activities that incorporated the use of ICT Tools. While brainstorming, we discovered that it is really difficult to incorporate ICT tools into the lesson as most ICT tools demands certain level of IT skills and as such, pupils may not have the ability to harness such tools. In addition, incorporating ICT into lessons may make the it mundane and hence, not practical and efficient in bringing across lesson ideas to students. Some activities ideas that were thought out was also thought to be cliche and hence not selected for usage. It is thus a challenge to balance interesting ideas with ICT tools.
With the rough lesson outline, we decided that each of us would being creating PowerPoint slides for our sub-topic and are to add in our own insights along the way. We would have to finish our part by the next meeting, which would most probably be on the 24th of March, Wednesday, so that we would be able to polish up the ideas as a group on the next meeting. We also agreed that this aspect of the group assignment should be finished ASAP so that we can devote more time to Lesson Idea Summary and the 12 minutes presenation.
With that, the meeting adjourned at 5.30pm.
PeiSin =D
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During the first meeting, we voiced out each others ideas on the activities. So as to brainstorm activities for our CME class, the meeting allows us to be clear of what is required and to plan out our task and time better.The difficulties we faced was to input the use of ICT into the activities for lower primary's pupils, as there is a limit to their knowledge in technology as well as the access to that.After the discussion, i realized that not all teaching requires the use of ICT tools to make lesson more interesting and interactive. Adding in ICT tools may be more troublesome and also it has became a burden, using for the sake of using it.
Stephanie, the long long hair girl! 12.41am
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We had our first meeting yesterday..
We decide on the topic that we want to do and the subject we are going to do..
Instead of teaching a specific topin for Chinese Language we decide to focus on Civics and Moral Education instead.
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We will be teaching them on responsibilty.
It will be 2periods over a week of 6 weeks..
We encountered some problems as we are not sure on what ICT tools we can use for our lesson.
For this initial stage of meeting we decide on some possible ICT tools we can use,
that includes Facebook, Blog, Podcast.
And we are still trying to decide on which is the best tool we will eventually make use of.
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We have come up with our lesson plan and will be starting on our powerpoint slides.
They next meeting we will be improving on our lesson plan and possible ways to make use of ICT in our teaching..
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~yunxuan~
9.54pm
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HELLO!!!!
THIS IS OUR 1ST POST!!!!
:)
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peisin,stephanie & yunxuan
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