Today I attend four classes: Islamic, Science and two classes of ICT. I am delighted in helping the students to finish the Science worksheet. I think that the students like the way that the teacher uses to enhance their learning in the parts of the plants because she mixes between coloring and the job of each part of the plant. In addition, I wonder to see the students reading and speaking English.
I enjoyed my time when I attend the ICT classroom. First of all, I
am surprised that the teacher uses learning.com with grade one. They know how to open the computer and login to the website. I am pleased to see that the teacher glues some small paper on the table of each child with their username and password of the website. I think this is a helpful idea because that encourages the students to be independent. I notice the students are familiar with the website and don’t have any difficulty but some of them don’t understand some English words. I see that all of them are interested in the games and the task that they do on the learning.com. 
I am interested in the way that the teacher can print tasks, students’ grades and report of the students’ progress from the website. I think this website is useful because that saves time for the teacher to be well prepared and organized because the teacher can also choose the lesson that she wants to teach. Then, she doesn’t need any book and the students don’t too. Also, the students can revise the lesson at home if the teacher activates that from the website. I notice the students like using the website and don’t want to stop working on it because when the bell rings they still stay at computer. That reminds me of: “When a student found an experience so enjoyable it felt like they were being carried away by a current, like being in a flow” (Arends, 2004, 144). Moreover, there is an exciting thing which when a student finish a task, it shows hem/her a thankful certificate of his/her hard work with their names. Really, I believe that it is important for us to observe classes because that helps us to notice many things related to our studying at college.
I enjoyed my time when I attend the ICT classroom. First of all, I
am surprised that the teacher uses learning.com with grade one. They know how to open the computer and login to the website. I am pleased to see that the teacher glues some small paper on the table of each child with their username and password of the website. I think this is a helpful idea because that encourages the students to be independent. I notice the students are familiar with the website and don’t have any difficulty but some of them don’t understand some English words. I see that all of them are interested in the games and the task that they do on the learning.com. 
I am interested in the way that the teacher can print tasks, students’ grades and report of the students’ progress from the website. I think this website is useful because that saves time for the teacher to be well prepared and organized because the teacher can also choose the lesson that she wants to teach. Then, she doesn’t need any book and the students don’t too. Also, the students can revise the lesson at home if the teacher activates that from the website. I notice the students like using the website and don’t want to stop working on it because when the bell rings they still stay at computer. That reminds me of: “When a student found an experience so enjoyable it felt like they were being carried away by a current, like being in a flow” (Arends, 2004, 144). Moreover, there is an exciting thing which when a student finish a task, it shows hem/her a thankful certificate of his/her hard work with their names. Really, I believe that it is important for us to observe classes because that helps us to notice many things related to our studying at college.
3 comments:
Another interesting post. What do you think is motivating the students to work hard? Is it because they are using a computer? Is it because they get a certificate if the work hard? Is it the content of the lesson? Is it the teacher? Is it combination of these things or somethingelse completely different? What do you think?
I think the combination of these things. For example, working on the computer is the most important cause because all the day they read, write, color,...etc and get bored. So, they need something more interesting and they find that in using the computer. Also, the website that they use it makes them more exciting because there are many different activities. They work hard to get a good marks to get the certificate so that encourages them to work hard. I notice they tell each other their marks and they are happy appreciated when they finish the task and move to another. So, this kind of activity promotos the students to work.
Fatma Rashed
Can you take some screen shots of learning.com to show me as I have never used it and am very interested.
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