Teacher Training

Java Fundamentals workshops for IT teachers and ISAs at NIE. and Royal College IT lab (Work as facilitator from Sri Lanka ,with the Indian lecturers)

Alice is a 3 D Animation Software which is easy to handle by any teacher without a very good knowledge in computer programming.Subjects teachers can use the too for creating animations for their lesson presentations as well as guide students for the lesson targets.Teachers of the Wattegama Education Zone and Katugasthota Education zone were trained to use software.

Integration of ICT in teaching;
Introducing technology and tools into school has been done through out years.During the implementation level at the schools ,some problems occured.Resistance to change, time factor, school priority level ,staff confidence and skills are some key factors which affect ICT -based education.The children are digital learners as they are born into a digital world.Hence the traditional ways of teaching ,learning ,assessing and evaluating are to be changed.

Collaboration,Communication and Technology Skills in Project Based Learning.

Using Office Mix in PowerPoint -(Trial Lesson)

https://mix.office.com/MyMixes/Uploaded?page=1

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Teaching Computer Programming

Learning to program or coding is difficult.....some would say. But have you thought about Computational Thinking ? If you need to solve a problem you have to break it into small chunks or pieces first. (A problem into pieces? Again a problem? Oh no....Define patterns-same thing common/similar and different points ,abstraction- taking out all the details ) Let's see what computational thinking looks like and how to use it in classroom as a teacher. Computational Thinking - Lesson in Action Related Articles https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/computational-thinking-10-years-later/

PBL 30 years ago and citizens of 21st century

This is something I am trying to analyse. Beyond 25 years, I had noticed how my mother taught to her students. She was teaching in primary classes. So, I heard always the phrases “subject integration”, “learning by doing “with regard to her professional talks with her colleagues; and I was not a teacher. I review that, John Dewey’s idea of “learning by doing” advanced and applied in education as a teaching learning methodology called Project –based learning (PBL), was well implemented in her classroom. Her class often went out of the school; surely with permission and with an assistant teacher. (As a child of her, I remember I was worrying about her walking and getting tired, with a class of kids).She had walked along village roads with her students creating a playful and enjoyable atmosphere. She had visited some places with streams or small lakes, tea plantations, paddy fields and official places like surveying institute. Students had come back with a lot of knowledge and experien...

BBC microbit

Introductory lessons on BBC micro:bit circuit board was done for students who are interested. BBC micro:bit pocket size minicomputer was introduced with the following hardware features and options. · BBC micro:bit with two AAA batteries, battery case with the white connector and the USB cable. · 5×5 LED matrix with 25 red LEDs · 2 programmable buttons · Bluetooth connection · Digital Compass · Accelerometer · Light Sensor · Coding on Web based IDE - https://pxt. micro:bit .org/?lang=e · Practice codes with emulator · Microsoft Block Editor and downloading .hex file to ...

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