In the following brief I will mention the tangible benefits this Diploma offers through the courses it provides that includes a lot of information which enriches the teachers educational and life experiences.
1. Its influence on me as a teacher
-Increases self-confidence through keeping up with technological development in information communication technology.
-Gaining more experience through socializing and getting to know the greatest number of colleagues.
-Gaining knowledge in research while utilizing new abilities and techniques in using the internet.
-Learning various software applications that are useful in teaching and in life generally.
-Providing more flexibility in dealing with students through concentrating on intelligence patterns.
-Acquiring experience in the procedure of allowing for individual differences among students,
-Making use of group work and observing that on increasing the students efficiency.
-The ability of using a number of (ICT) tools in the classroom.
-Acquiring experience in providing diversity in the tools used to present ideas and questions to accommodate for the different intelligent patterns that are among the students
- Providing an interaction to the class lesson through using "the talking book".
-Clarifying the picture of the student abilities and competencies in which it was proofed that applying (ICT) is the best method in allowing for individual differences among students.
-The urge of using new methods of evaluation that allows for all intelligence patterns and not depending absolutely on the edited test.
-Allowing for the participation of students in which there is a number of students that exceed teachers in their abilities of using (ICT) tools especially that it was proofed that youngsters have the ability to deal better with technology that elder ones.
2. Its influence on students
- Increasing the desire of students to attend the class
- Increasing the interaction in the class.
- Preparation of computerized lessons by a number of students
- Increasing the competition among students to offer their best
- Boosting student awareness in changing their role from a recipient to a participant in the teaching process.
- Gaining new skills and depending on their selves in looking for the information through the internet.
- trying to communicate with the teacher in any new issues in (ICT).
- Participation of students, who weren't nearly present in normal classes, and whom are highly skillful in using the computer and (ICT) tools in which the latter made them interact in class and participate often.
- Activating the role of self-learning in the student following his belief in having the ability to do that at the school and at the home.
- Changing the interpretation of a teacher gradually, from a person that has everything and is the only source of information to a participant and teaching leader.
- Student application of (ICT) methods and tools results in increasing his self-confidence and ability to participate in providing information instead of being a recipient only which in turn strengthens his belief even more that he's a major partner in the teaching process.
