Module Number 3 Assignment 3.1 Version 1.0



Group Members

01. M.H.Dinesh Kumara
02. P.G. Bandula Karunarathna
03. W.N.P. Weerakkody
04. Y.H.N.N. Banduprema


Introduction

With the invention of new computer technologies, the world now had become a universal village. Especially invention of internet, e-mail, was made convenience the modern lives in large scale. Then it is a vast necessity to explore the modern technology and absorb them into education field in any country. So it is a vast necessity to bring these technologies into the school education and the students who aware of absorb of modern world. We, as teachers should have concern this vital necessity and must try to convey these timely need implement the ways to give these disadvantageous students.

This task mainly based on this objective offering many benefits to the students. On one hand they study the allocated study materials. And also, by this activity we hope to establish a self defendant environment among the students. Today the student grown and someday they become adults. Our task is based on food production. In future the student may have faced a lot of problems on food productions with the competitive society. Then they can use the previous knowledge on farming and make cultivation and offer some point to the national gross production. To implement this task, the modern technology can be used vastly; especially e-mail and internet.
As we are developing country, this is most important factor on political, social and economic surroundings. And it is very useful to absorb the modern technology into agricultural field as our country’s main source of income.

Targeted group
Class: Grade 10/11
Number of students: 12
Number of Groups: 2
Subject : Agriculture

Basic requirements

01 Hardware and Software requirements
· Accessibility Word 2003 or 2007 Version
Web browser
· Search Engine
· E-mail
Other requirements
· Every tools and instrument which needs in agricultural field.
· Some types of fertilizers which use for cultivations.


pedagogical aspects


With the invention of new technological way of education, the students utilize those scientific method of learning has increased. The students are able to take or absorb the new technological knowledge than in the past with this task the teacher try to develop those abilities of the students in many ways.
And also student are involving to respect the social and cultural values of several areas with the way of doing this task.
Involvement to cultivation that can be utilized in day today life and enhance the knowledge of them. And also involvement of the use the modern e- communication on agriculture and solve the problems that arise in the task. And also students are able to comprehend, it can be change the bad effects and enhance the harvest using the appropriate soil, relevant fertilizers, well maintaining, controlling the climatic changing and changing the control methods of poison. And student can absorb the knowledge of team work, complete the task in given time, make the faults and bear the responsible in equal way.



Aspect of ICT skill

Of students
The targeted group who we choose to implement this must have some sort of knowledge with computer literacy. And they must have ability to access to internet and its features and familiar to do some works with e-mail. And also it is required to have some knowledge and to understand some general commands on internet and e-mail such as ability to send e-mail etc…


Of teacher
Teacher must have thorough knowledge on computer environment and the operating systems, web browsing and the ability to prevent students from distracting the webs. And also the knowledge on Ms Word is essential. When conducting the lesson, some matters may arise from the students and then the teacher must have the ability to find out them and correct them and the matters on agriculture subjects. And also teacher must have thorough knowledge of internet and e-mail specially blogs, chats, wiki, skype, yahoo answer, audio and video recorded e-mail.

The matters to be discussed in each school (especially with teachers)
01. Teachers are in both schools having to meet via any models of communication and decide the plant which are going to be cultivated.
02. with the types of plants and the climatic and the geographical factors decide the planting season
03. Considering the climatic factors and other basic requirement teachers decide the day of land preparing.
04. considering the geographical background deciding the types of plant pods
05. handling the discussion with the students decide the day of planting
06. According to the day of planting, handle a discussion on the days of fertilizing.
07. considering the types of cultivation and the build of the plants teachers have to give the advises on the types of fertilizer
08. Handling a discussion on the core of the final report decide the day of sending final report.

09. Decide the electronics models that use to exchange the details. So the teachers have to handle a discussion on what models have to be used. i.e. e-mal, chat, video and audio models etc….














Time frame



















In: no:
Activities
1stMonth
2 nd month
3 rd month
Weeks
Weeks
Weeks

Leading discussions












2
Acknowledge the students on the project and provide the tools












3
Land preparing / exchange the information












4
Preparing the plant pods












5
Planting the seeds/ exchange the information












6
Basic fertilizing/ exchange the information












7
Maintaining and sharing the progress reports












8
Preparing the final report and publish it in wiki












9
Sending gratitude to participants













Lesson plan

1 step: teacher makes the class into two groups including boys and girls into each group. Then explain the project that is going to be implemented.
Then students have to exchage their photos, names study sections, the facilities they have to implement this project etc… between two schools.

2. Step: teacher provides the particular advises on preparing the land to be sowing the seed and involve the students to prepare the land.
Then students have to send an e-mail which Includes the pictures and description on preparing land to students in another school who are engaging in the same task and get back the responses and examine them with making mistakes.

03. Step: taking the students for seeding provided seeds on
allocated time.Sending the e-mail report per two days on germination the seed including the planting the seeds, the days occur to plant, the average height of plants, seeds disease or destruction.

04. Step: involvement to be taken student to prepare the land in Suitable time and involve the student to plant the plants which are in suite planting Exchange an e-mail report per a week about the build of the plants, diseases, using fertilizers. Leading a discussing on the issues which arise in each schools about the diseases and temporary impacts such as insects affects, temperature in the soil, climatic changing sect…


05. Step: taking the harvest on time or certain period considering the state of the harvest. Now again exchange an e-mail report with each school on the quantity of the harvest, the situations of harvest and the quality of the harvest.

06. Step: taking involvement the student to maintain further the harvest, encouraging them with positively.

07. Step: finally student has to make a report to publish on the wiki that had made already on conclusion on the better situation to cultivate the plant.

08. Step: sending e-mail to people who aid and contribute to the success of the project. i.e. principal, teachers, agricultural instructors and students



The problematic areas

Technological problems


01. If the student face troublesome with accessing the e-mails and internet the project will be failed. Then teacher has to handle those problems recovering the harm

02. According to the climatic and geographical changes of the areas, sometimes many problems may arise, such as current failure delay the sending time, inconvenience to access the information from other groups on time. Then facilitators should take these risks and solve them on behalf of the students

Other problems

01. If the students have problems which could not be solving to each school when implementing the project ask the advices from agricultural officers via skype and e-mail.























Criteria for evaluation

In this phase teacher has to evaluate the student throughout the task.



Index no:
Criteria
Excellence
Very good
Good
Try again
01
Duty-conscious.




02
Follow the correct path




03
Maintaining




04
Follow the rules when using e-mail




05
Reuse the matters that studied.