TITLE:
“Digital Classroom”: An Innovative Teaching and Learning Technique for Gifted Learners Using ICT
AUTHORS:
Abu Yazid Abu Bakar
KEYWORDS:
Teaching and Learning, Gifted Learners, Information and Communication Technology (ICT)
JOURNAL NAME:
Creative Education,
Vol.7 No.1,
January
22,
2016
ABSTRACT: Gifted student population is a group of individuals with specific and unique learning needs. Due to their uniqueness, the students always face problems in mainstream educational system. Teachers of gifted students need to be proactive and creative in preparing their teaching plans, methodologies, and materials, in order to ensure that the learning process is going to be effective to the students. This article discusses the concept of “digital classroom”—an innovative technique using integration of information and communication technology (ICT)—used at the “laboratory school” of National Gifted Center, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia as teaching and learning strategy for local gifted students. The teachers integrate the use ICT such as the electronic mail, social media applications, and online learning portals as platforms to effectively teach the students. In comparison to the conventional way of teaching, this technique creates a borderless classroom which enables the students to freely explore knowledge without limit or boundary.