Reflection 3

Days by days, weeks by weeks passed me by and that marked new beginning each time dawn meeting the dusk. I could never escape from learning new things and encountering new challenges. Almost every lecture would surely be accompanied by numbers of tasks.

For this week, the Educational Technology class was fully occupied and we had being given numbers of task to be done. On Monday, we were presenting our video and to our surprise, that was actually the first part of our group assignment. Mr. Norsarihan was rather satisfied with our work but he would be glad to see better videos during the real video presentation for evaluation later.   

Besides the video presentation, we also learnt about Instructional Models. One of the examples of the Instructional Models that we are focusing on is ASSURE Model. ASSURE model is an effective model to be used to design lesson plans for more attractive, interesting, meaningful and workable lesson plan for teaching heterogeneous classrooms. As an add-on point, the corporation of teacher aids based on media and technology, the lesson will surely be more fun and attractive. Students’ attentions are drawn to the lesson and thus will make the objectives for the day are successfully achieved. However, despite its brilliant points, we should realize that technologies can disappoint us anytime and anywhere. So, as teachers, we should be ready with few back-up plans. Beautiful and animated slides, attractive videos and songs for set induction mean nothing when the electricity fails out of sudden. So, besides preparing all the fun and interesting stuffs in the notebook, we as teachers should prepare the hard copies for everything. Apart from that, we can still utilize our handphone or radio with batteries to play the song we intend to use for our set induction. Thus, at least things don’t go zero at all.

Last but not least, Mr. Norsarihan also reminded us to keep on updating and customizing our personal blog as he wanted to see us presenting it on this coming Monday. It is of course merely for fun. It is our first individual assignment. So, friends, if you have forgotten about that and you are reading this post, please do update your reflection and customize your blog as attractive as you can. Please kindly be noted everyone!