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Reflection on ICT as situating tool

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Reflection on ICT as situating tool As we discussed that situating tools is the application that helps to situate learners in an environment to experience the context and happenings. Its the application that provides opportunity for learners to experience and feels the real situation that is not possible in the text. application such as simulations (flight, farming, surgery, driving and play station), virtual reality and CD-ROM can be used as the situating tools to teach the concept. If we are going to teach the concept of pH value of various solution, we can go to PhET interaction website and choose the pH simulation.  From that website we can find the any subject related simulation to teach student. This helps learners to situate in the environment and gives the feeling reality.   W e can use those applications when a certain real-life experience is impossible to attain.  We can use google map to teach the concept of the location of any place, time, di...

Reflection on ICT as a co-constructive tool

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 ICT as a co-constructive tool Co-constructive tools are tool that support the construction of knowledge through shared understanding. In other word it is tool use to work cooperatively and construct a shared understanding of new knowledge. Examples of co-constructive tool are Google docs, electronic whiteboards, blogs and wikis.  Constructing something with the use of ICT gives many new knowledge, ideas and skills. I think that it is very important to use co-constructive tools in teaching and learning environment necessarily. For example; till now I never know about the Google docs and blogs. But after I came across the constructive tools I came go know such new knowledge and skills. Through such new experiences I learned very productive things in my life for the first time. Working with co-constructive tools makes our work easier and gain many ideas. For example, while using the Google doc we can discuss together, share ideas, and edit each other and able pr...

Reflection on ICT as a constructive tool

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ICT as a constructive tool Above video tutorial was one of the my own accomplished task for the first time in my life. When i construct this video tutorial i have gained my experiences. Earlier i don't have the knowledge about video making and editing on video makers apps. Now i can able to use some ideas and able to applied some knowledge that i learned from above video tutorial. In future it will be easier for me to construct such video tutorials for students and teach students well. The word construct means make or create. ICT as a constructive tool can be refer to making or creating own knowledge and meaning with the use of ICT. Since constructive is mostly personal construction of meaning it is one of the best approaches for students to learn. Instead of teacher teaching theoretically it is most important to give student practical task for their own construction of knowledge and meaning. So this will help students to explore more on different sources of information an...

Reflection on ICT as a communicative tool

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ICT as a communicative tool Communication tool are the device that helps people to communicate easily. It can be happen between two or more person through the tools like we-chat, face-book, video conference and Gmail etc. This tool helps people to communicate and share their thoughts even if they are not face to face or together. Some tools also help to see each other face and gives a feeling like talking face to face in a real situation. This tool really helps in connecting people from different places. There are two types of communication: 1. Synchronous: it is a real time communication people like face to face or phone communication. For example, we use to phone call or video call through our mobile to friends or to families and we communicate or talk each other. So that can be called as synchronous or real time communication. From education side its mainly use for instructional activities that required higher degree of interaction and helps in solving urgent problems ...

Reflection on ICT as an informative tool

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ICT as an informative tool Informative tools are applications that provide information in various formats such as text, graphics, sounds or videos, radio, internet etc. Internet includes the social media, Google, chats room, forum and blogs etc. Out of many information formats internet is considered as the most popular source of information since we can easily access through it and able to collect the information what we want at any time.    ICT as an informative tool is also very effective to use in our lessons or classroom. If teacher and students are not able to understand any concept they can easily go through internet and search for different information and learn it. When students doing activities, assignments and home works it provides a great help to them since students can search various sources of information and have effective product of their tasks. With the use of informative tools teacher can also plan a good lesson for the students. Actually from ...

ICT as a tool

ICT as a tool ICT is very important in school classroom to explore through different sources of information and to have efficient teaching learning. Teacher can use ICT as a tool to teach and learn. Teacher can use ICT in the classroom as five tools. 1. ICT as an informative tool 2. ICT as a communicative tool 3. ICT as a constructive tool 4. ICT as a co-constructive tool 5. ICT as a situated tool