Final thoughts

The course is very interesting and impressive, it add many to our knowledge. This course is the best for me; I learned different strategies to teaching IT. This Course holds smooth ideas that can be implement not just ideas written on paper. I am sure that it will help me a lot in my future.

I would like to thank Dr Myint for his clearly explanations and spaciousness of his chest and his cooperation with us. I hope all teachers hold the same morals.

Games and Simulations

I was happy to know that many researchers view video games seriously and try to incorporate games and simulations into teaching and learning.  It’s nice to know that video games are not just for recreation.

I really like the direction on incorporating technology into future learning.  It is exciting how innovative teaching and learning may become.

I hope to create some video games that meet the main objectives in my lessons, It will help me think a lot about how games and simulations need to incorporate real game-like features to make them more interesting and meaningful to students.

Cyber-safety

The Internet is an indispensable tool for information, research, and education.   We use the Internet to communicate with family, friends, work colleagues, and others for a myriad of purposes.  All forms of entertainment can be accessed via the Internet. 

Those with common interests can share their thoughts, skills, and support and are not constrained by geography. 

Most of us rely on the Internet to purchase merchandise, do our banking, and conduct business transactions.  We have the option of not going to the store, bank or place of business, but rather doing these activities from home.

While the Internet is a very valuable a tool, it also poses risks to our safety, security, and privacy.  Most of us have had “pop-ups” appear while visiting a website promising free gifts and prizes in exchange for personal information.  Children are enticed by these promises and may divulge information that can jeopardize their safety or privacy.  

This is some online -safety tips:

u Never agree to meet with someone you have met online

u People may not be who they say they are online

u Encourage the use of pen names

u Remove address and contact details from emails

u Never respond to obscene or suggestive messages

u Don’t send personal photos over the internet and critical data such as visa card number

u Be sure there is an anti-virus installed in your PC and be sure it is updated

concept/mind map

Like all maps, concept maps are representations of spatial relationships.   Concept maps reflect the psychological structure of an individual’s knowledge.It show what individuals know and how their knowledge is structured.

Grounded in a constructivist perspective of learning, concept maps have 3 elements: nodes or concepts, lines representing links and directional relations among concepts, and labels that describe the nature of the relationship. These 3 elements combine to create propositions, or meaningful statements.

I think Students are lack of knowledge about mind map, Students cannot identify the key words / key concepts, they have just copied down the headings of their textbook or they copy the whole paragraph and some students claim that it is time–consuming.

But I advice teachers to overcome all of these problems is to create a mind map together by part to part during the lesson, show the benefits of mind map, integrate the mind map into teaching activities .So student will be familiar with this kind of maps to get better results through facilitate long term memory, identify linkages between concepts, consolidate concepts in junior forms, and cultivate Self-learners.