Saturday, October 18, 2008

How To Promote The Usage Of Computer Labs In Schools?

Nowadays, almost all schools are well-equipped with the computer labs. However, not all teachers make use of the computer labs. actually, tehre are many things or activities that teachers can do to promote the use of computer labs.

Blogging-Teacher can asks pupils to create a blog. But, it is important for teachers to teach the pupils on how to create the blog. There are so many things that pupils can do with blog. They can share their interest with others, share their opinion about certain topics, express their feelings and many more. As for teachers, they will be able to assess their pupils in terms of the pupils' writing skills and fluency. Blogging will have the pupils to improve their writing skills and teach them to be reflective thinker.

Software-Teacher can teach the pupils using the software that are available. This can developed the pupils' computer skills. Besides, it will also make the learning become more enjoyable and fun as teachers integrate the use of games in the lesson.

Conferencing-Teacher also can encourage pupils to share their views with the teacher and also their friends through chatting and forums. This online discussion will help the pupils to improve their communication skills as they are interact with each other.

Internet skills-Teacher can improve the pupils internet skills with the use of computer labs. This can be done by asking the pupils to do the activities such as gather materials for their portfolios. This can help to developed their skills in searching, downloading, encoding, storinga nd etc.

Competition-Teacher can also create a competition among the pupils about computer skills. This can be done by asking them to work in groups and create e-book, doing the photo-editing, audio-editing and etc. Other than developing the skills, teacher can developed teamwork among the pupils.

Obviously there are so much things that teacher can do to promote the usage of the computer labs. However, the teachers themselves should become technology literate first before they start to promote it to the pupils and other teachers. Besides, teacher should be able to facilitate their pupils in the computer labs. Thus, there will be no problem occur in the computer labs and the pupils will acquire the knowledge that they should have.

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