Teaching Aids

Teaching aids was the main topic for the lesson in this week. I believed that ‘teaching aids’ was a common word among of all of us. It was usually defined as supporting materials that were used in a teaching learning process. However, in this lesson, most of us were fascinated as we were assigned to integrate and use technology in teaching aids. This meant that we had to prepare a lesson that was fully conducted by using technology as teaching aids. I was wondering about it because I did not have much expose to the various teaching aids in terms of technology. This meant that the world was progressing in a fast pace especially in education. Luckily, Pn. Foziah had assigned us to do it in pairs rather than single. This helped me to learn and share some new ideas from my partner. It eventually developed cooperation in each pair.

Pn. Foziah had mentioned several teaching aids which were integrated with technology. E-Book, flash games, flash cards, music video, online story, online games and online educational activities were some of the examples of advanced technological teaching aids. Through her explanation on these teaching aids, I had a better idea on how it was linked in a teaching learning process. ‘What were impacts of using technological teaching aids?’ was the first question that emerged in my little mind. Would it mean that teachers were no longer important in schools?

In my opinion, teachers were absolutely important in schools even though lots of invention of technological teaching aids. This was because teachers were still needed as facilitators by giving them the correct instructions on how to do the tasks. Without teachers, I believe chaos would happen in schools as pupils were unable to clarify their hesitation.


There were many advantages of using technological teaching aids in classroom. Firstly, it created an interesting and exciting classroom. For example, a music video clip such as, ‘Head, shoulders, knees and toes’ that was shown at the beginning of a class would trigger pupils’ curiosity in learning rather than a traditional teaching method. This eventually aroused their interests and motivated them to learn. This video clip could also give them a brief idea or concept on the lesson. Thus, they would have focus and direction in learning.


Secondly, by integrating technology and teaching aids, teachers could have a more pupils-centered learning. This was because it contains lots of educational games and online tasksheets where pupils could participate at the same time. Pupils would also attain immediate feedbacks either it was positive or negative from the activities. This helped them to realize their strengths and weaknesses on the spot. Teachers also could avoid delaying the feedbacks to pupils in terms of marking their books. Pupils could also do extra activities at home just by clicking on the internet. In addition, there were many free of charge website for educational games.


Lastly, technological teaching aids which were colourful and contained lots of animations and graphics had widen pupils’ knowledge in using ICT. This would be very useful in their future especially in working life. Pupils could also be one of the techno savvy as children in oversea who had a very conducive learning environment. All in all, technology must be integrated in teaching so that our young generation could be the same par as the others in this advanced world.