VELS statement: ICT provides a rich and flexible learner-centred environment in which students can experiment and take risks when developing new understanding.
The ICT domain is organised into 3 dimensions, these dimensions are:
- ICT for visualising thinking
- ICT for creating
- ICT for communicating
The statement above fits into the first domain ICT for visualising thinking. This statement encourages teaches to use ICT in the classroom to help in showing students patterns in their work and to encourage students to code their work. This helps a student to have a more structured and clear understanding to be able to sort their work into section based up their allocated code. Another benefit in using ICT to visualise thinking is it aids students to create links between past and current topics.
For example in my Business method, I have observed and used ICT to educate students about given topics. Such as in my Year 11 Accounting class I have been teaching whilst on placement I used PowerPoint to introduce the new topic of Cash flow statements to the class, through the use of PowerPoint I was able to show students the structure of a Cash Flow Statement and relate Cash Flow statement to what they have previously studied. I then went on to in the class to use Microsoft excel to work with the students to do an example question; I found this helpful as it makes structuring the Cash Flow statement much easier and gave the students a clear example.
The other 2 domains, ICT for creating and ICT for communication encourage teachers to use ICT to solve problems and to aid students in the problem solving process. As ICT for communication encourages teaches to use ICT to communicate with other people to present ideas and knowledge. This can be helpful in especially in the business as there is a lot of content to cover in a short period especially during VCE. I also found using ICT for problem solving to be helpful as it allows you to work through a problem as a class and it gives the students a better understanding of the thinking you go through in the process of solving the different types of problems.
You provided some really good examples of using ICT in the business method area. This is also my teaching area and it was helpful to see how ICT can be used in an accounting class - because traditionally accounting is about reading the textbook and doing examples in workbooks.
ReplyDeleteI think using PowerPoint is a great resource. However, it has to be done correctly (i.e. having dot points/basic ideas - and not chunks of information. It is also helpful because you can store all previous work/lessons and can show them in the future if you have to refer back.