Activity 1

Sunday 3rd March 2013

ICT Integration at The Belair Government School (BGS)

It can be clearly demonstrated that there is some level of integration taking place in the school but all is not well. 

The students are taught Basic Information Technology from Grade K – 6 by the IT Teacher.  Students are provided with the basic skills and knowledge needed for the operation of the computer.

Students use the various applications on the net books to complete given tasks e.g. office calculator, writer, impress etc.

The schools is equip with a computer lab which contains 6 Hp Computers, 2 laptops, Projector, Printers etc. The computers there are used by teachers to help in the delivery of some of their lessons.

Only the students from grade 3-6 are recipient of the government initiative one netbook per child. The students have access to wireless internet on a daily basis where they can research or do their homework if they have no access at home.  The problem comes when we are using the net books and some of the Net books are not working or chargers have a fault. Then they have to work into groups and some students don’t want to share.

Some teachers try integrate ICT into one or two of their lessons per week due to the fact of unavailability of some resources and some teacher don’t have all the training to integrate ICT effectively in the classroom.

Finally I believe with appropriate planning and implementation strategies of ICT integration students and Teachers at the Belair Government School will benefit tremendously.