Innovation Through Virtual Learning

Classroom spotlight: Senior Sciences:

With the outbreak of novel coronavirus and the unprecedented nationwide lockdown, the DP Sciences Department at MIS needed to demonstrate quick adaptation and agility to overcome the crisis in order to properly cover the curricula and preserve our high standards of teaching and learning. As such, the Department committed to deliver the curriculum to the students utilizing online Virtual Learning platforms, which enable us to interact with students through simulations and video tutorials.

Teaching and learning takes an alternative, albeit challenging, route which compels both the teacher and the taught to become “techno-savvy”. Online tools that were previously in existence, but which were never part of our programme, were quickly co-opted and put into place as important instructional vehicles, where they will remain for the foreseeable future. COVID-19 pushed the conventional “chalk-and-talk” method aside, and allowed new and better online pedagogies to come to the forefront.

Apps like Skype, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube which were previously used primarily in our smartphones for entertainment purposes are now among the most trustworthy platforms for online collaboration, allowing us to learn and share ideas across the globe. Further exploration led us to Zoom, Teams and Gtalk for make virtual connections. Tools like Whiteboard, Canva, Paint 3D, Perusall, Prism, and Screencast-o-Matic further strengthened teaching and learning and has made the students and teachers both more responsible, more enthusiastic and more engaging.

Simulation- Calorimetry

As far as assessments go, Exam.net proved to have robust features which not only securely guarded the Question Papers but also gave us the ability to randomly generate exam questions, and assisted students and teachers in a variety of other ways ensuring security and fair evaluation.

Of course, we all miss the face-to-face interaction with our wonderful students and are looking forward to their return to campus. In the meantime, however, we have successfully turned this crisis into an educational opportunity. Soon, we hope, the Science Department will once again see the labs filled with cheerful students who are well-versed in online learning skills who are also able to apply these to real hands-on practice in the science labs.

Shakir Ali

Science dept.

Human systems and economic activities	The study of how and why people construct organizations and systems; the ways in which people connect locally and globally; the distribution of power and authority.
Social organization and culture	The study of people, communities, cultures and societies in the ways in which individuals, groups and societies interact with each other.
Continuity and change through time	The study of the relationships between people and events through time; the past, its influences on the present and its implications for the future; people who have shaped the future through their actions.
Human and natural environments	The study of the distinctive features that give a place its identity; how people adapt to and alter their environment; how people experience and represent place; the impact of natural disasters on people and the built environment.
Resources and the environment	The interaction between people and the environment; the study of how humans allocate and manage resources; the positive and negative effects of this management; the impact of scientific and technological developments on the environment.

Living things	The study of the characteristics, systems and behaviours of humans and other animals, and of plants; the interactions and relationships between and among them, and with their environment.
Earth and space	The study of planet Earth and its position in the universe, particularly its relationship with the sun; the natural phenomena and systems that shape the planet and the distinctive features that identify it; the infinite and finite resources of the planet.
Materials and matter	The study of the properties, behaviours and uses of materials, both natural and human-made; the origins of human-made materials and how they are manipulated to suit a purpose.
Forces and energy	The study of energy, its origins, storage and transfer, and the work it can do; the study of forces; the application of scientific understanding through inventions and machines. (IBO, 2009)

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