ICT Integration in various subject area

During my school days, I was not aware of the words that typed in Dzongkha because I was not that much exposed to the use of ICT. After I joined in this college, I learned lot about the ICT and importance of ICT in our life as well as I being as future teacher. In the first semester, I learned about the use of different search engines, Microsoft word document, Microsoft excels sheet and Microsoft power point presentation. During second semester, I learned about the module 'Environmental Studies' (EVS) in Dzongkha. During that time, I was thinking that ICT cannot be used in dzongkha or ICT cannot be integrated in Dzongkha subject but I was wrong.

In that module, besides learning about teaching methods, strategies and skill, I learned about how to type words or letter in Dzongkha. When I learnt first time, I faced difficulty in recognizing the letter in Dzongkha as well as in order to type all the letters of dzongkha, I used to take more than 10 to 15 minutes. As time passes by I could learn how to type words or letters in dzongkha and I was able to recognize the letter in dzongkhag. Now when I type 30 alphabets of dzongkha I hardly take five minutes to complete.

Being a general graduate we are not only suppose to teach English subjects but also need to teach dzongkha subject as well. This module really helped me in teaching dzongkha subject using power point presentation and word processor and also helped me in doing dzongkhag assignment and presentation in the class. If I did not have that knowledge, I might have to write all in chart paper and paper and need to present in the class. Using PowerPoint saves time and can cover large amount of topic within set time. It can be effective and efficient tool to use in the class while displaying information to student. Moreover, when I need to write the assignment in dzongkha, it really saves time and it also helps in preparing the lesson plan too.

Integrating ICT in different subject is very important because I thought that ICT cannot be integrated in dzongkha subject but it is not like that. ICT can be integrated in different subject areas. During my schools day, until class 9 I have never seen my teaching using Microsoft power point presentation in teaching and learning process both in English and dzongkha. Moreover, many teachers were not competent in using ICT in teaching. Therefore, in today world ICT plays a vital role and it is very important for teacher to have ICT knowledge.