Lesson integrated with ICT on question tags.

ICT in education improves engagement and knowledge retention: When ICT is integrated into lessons; students become more engaged in their work. This is because technology provides different opportunities to make it more fun and enjoyable in terms of teaching the same things in different ways. The successful integration of ICT into the learning environment will depend on the ability of teachers to structure learning in new ways, to merge technology appropriately with pedagogy, develop socially active classrooms, and encourage co-operative interaction and collaborative learning and group work.

November month, mostly it is for the revision month. I too have the revision for class IV English. I did the revision on question tags. On 2^nd November during the 1^st period. Firstly I took them in the ICT lab and show the video on question tags. This video refreshed them on the topic that they have learnt before. They liked the way I re- introduce the topic and they enjoyed learning. The link for the video is given here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDo3ZNId8TE

In between the video I explained them and re-taught some of the question tags which was little difficult for them. As a follow up of my activity I paused in between the video and ask them to answer to the question tags examples shown in the video. Then I showed some examples of question tags written on the charts. There we discussed and child could understand better. I made them in groups of four and let them write the question tags for the question that I have given in a printed form. After the writing activity, the same question tag was displayed in word documents that I have written and we looked for the correct answer. There itself assessments were done and those who have got wrong answer, we corrected together. The group who got all the correct answer was given cheers by teacher and friends.

As a closure part of my lesson I ask few children to come in front, one should tell the question and another by listening to the question, need to give correct responses. The lesson was interesting and every child was involved in the activity. So to make more excited, I promised them that in next class they will be in the ICT lab and type five question tags individually. Children were so happy that they will have opportunity to use desktop and type themselves.

Some few challenges was faced while doing this lesson, due to small ICT room, all the students are were not comfortable and I had little difficult in time management. There was net fluctuation and the video sometimes got blur in image. Children faced little discomfort while writing as they have to sit down and write. Over all teaching with ICT is fun. With the change in learning environment from regular classes to ICT lab, it create different learning atmosphere and children really love learning the lesson with ICT integrated.