Classroom Management with ICT integration

For most teachers the term classroom management refers to the practical details that must be looked after if a pedagogic situation is going to actually run smoothly on a day to day basis. ICT has the potential to become a great and useful tool in the hands of skilled educators. Like any other tool it also has the potential to become a frustration and a burden if the teacher fails to learn how to use the tool correctly. All tools must be used well to realise their full potential, but they must also be managed well. Take a simple analogy - a skilled carpenter can use a plane to smooth and finish a rough piece of timber. However, if the plane is never sharpened or honed, if it is jarred against nails and generally mismanaged, then the tool will cease to be of use for that person. You know the saying ‘A skilled crafts-person never blames the tools’. Much the same with ICT. The skills of using the tools are dealt with in various other chapters. We want to take a short look at management of the tools. Much of classroom management is the common sense associated with dealing professionally with a subject. Most teachers probably know these practical ideas, but it always helps to see these things catalogued and noted. It is also simpler to add to a list of practical ideas once they have been started. Good classroom management is the actual implementation of as many of these practical objectives as possible, at any given time. Mismanagement will undoubtedly result in frustration and stress. There are three main areas to be dealt with concerning ICT and classroom management:

• Hardware Management
• Software Management
• Classroom Management

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Source: CCTI-SVG-June 2012
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