How to promote the usage of the school computer lab

Nowadays, every school is equipped with computer labs so as to encourage the teacher to integrate technology in teaching and learning. There are some ways that teacher can do to promote the usage of the school computer labs to students.

Firstly, teacher can bring the students to the computer lab and introduce to them some web based software that related to their lesson for that day. Using this, students are given the opportunity to explore and discover the software on their own and experience fun learning. There are plenty of software available on the world wide web and teacher can simply select and choose the best software to be used in their teaching.

Secondly, teacher can come out with an assignment or a task that requires the students to make full use of the internet to find the materials such as pictures, songs, etc and ideas for their task. Teacher can bring them to the computer lab and let them to search on their own the materials that they are looking for. Indirectly, teacher is promoting the benefits of internet as one of the source that students can rely to in order to find various materials and input in a short time.

All in all, it is the teacher's and administration's roles to determine how to promote the usage of computer lab in school. It is a waste not to use the facilities when it is already served for us!