Using Internet for Teaching

There is already a recognized fact that the need for educational experience is rapidly growing, the development of technology is rapidly changing the phase of education to which teaching and learning are taking new dimensions. The Internet plays a significant role in the lives of young people today. Many research points to advantages as well as disadvantages of the use of the Internet in a formal educational context. It was found that the teachers think that the Internet is a valuable source of information and an important additional teaching tool. The Internet can e.g. motivate the students, make teaching more fun, and allows variation in teaching.

Similarly with the resource and information available in World Wide Web (www), I browsed and downloaded pictures of different fruits from the internet to be used as teaching material for my classroom.

Since the pictures downloaded from the internet looked real, attractive and beautifully painted it was easy to gain children’s attention since the kids were easily attracted by the picture. The picture of fruits downloaded from the internet added colours to the classroom when displayed on the classroom wall. The pictures when displayed on the walls not only helped students to remember the names of the fruit but also can be used for revising the lesson during later part of the academic session. The displayed pictures can also be preserved and used for the new batches of Class 1 children during the 2017 academic year. Therefore using internet not only saved me time but also made my teaching effective, inclusive and interactive to the students.