The Use of ICT in Teaching Science of Grade VI Pupils in Bienvenido R. Fojas Memorial Elementary School

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

The Department of Education (DepEd) continues to strategize to improve education and curriculum in the intermediate level. It is done through emphasizing teaching of English, Filipino, Mathematics, and Science and Technology, provision of alternative delivery schemes, development of research, improvement of school libraries and teachers' welfare. To improve the quality of teaching and learning, new trends are introduced such as the use of technology. Educational technology is the study and ethical practice of facilitating learning and improving performance by creating, using, and managing technology processes.

METHODS

The study used experimental design to determine the effects of the different IT gadgets on the academic performance of the pupils when used as aids in teaching Science. The design used the experimental-control group technique. This was done by isolating the research in a physical situation apart from the routine of ordinary classroom situation and by manipulating one or more independent variables under rigorously specified, operationalized, and controlled conditions. (Kerlinger 2010)

RESULTS

The mean of the experimental group is greater than the control group. The two approaches of teaching from ICT based instruction and the traditional approach can enhance students learning in Science. The use of both teaching approaches leads pupils to gaining knowledge, but the use of the ICT based instruction can enhance the students to learn more and much better than the use of traditional, spiral approach on this particular study.

DISCUSSIONS

The demographic profile of the Grade 6 pupils of Bienvenido R. Fojas Memorial Elementary School in Tanza, Cavite SY 2017-2018 age and sex of the pupils indicates that the pupils have entered the school at the right age. Teachers use the projector, speakers, mobile phone, and television all the time. The average academic performance of the grade 6 pupils in Science in the Experimental is 87.23, on the other hand the mean grade of the control group is 87.45 which means that the selection of the member of the group is balanced, according to the academic performance of the pupils. The means of the experimental group (with gadgets) is greater than the control group (without gadgets). The two approaches of teaching using the ICT based instruction and the traditional approach can enhance students’ learning in Science, but the use of the ICT based instruction, students learned better than the controlled group.