Sunday, January 25, 2015

Beauty of ICT in Education

If we use ICT in its proper sense to facilitate teaching and learning in science subjects at which ever level of education, then learning science will just be as exciting as watching a football match. Teachers of science let us adopt this change and help our learners, for whom we are employed and earn income. The employer number one therefore are our learners because without them, we have no meaning

Friday, January 23, 2015

Science Literacy

The teaching of Science in developing countries is a milestone to technological inventions. It is imperative that the epistemology and ontology of science is emphasized in teaching in order to achieve science literacy. Science literacy is not about learners memorizing contents which they then reproduce in answering examinations but it is about understanding the nature of science.
Two areas in the nature of science includes:
  • there is no absolute truth in science
  • the laws and theories and principals are not static
  In understanding the above nature of science, teachers experiences a paradigm shift in their method of teaching science so that they produce critical graduates of education system. students should therefore be given opportunity to discover and  learn on their own with the aim of making them independent. Through this the learners interact with each other with the teacher 's role being to scaffold the learners to allow learning to take place.