The Third Tool

Constructive Tool

Constructive tool focuses on constructivist approach of teaching  and learning. Constructivism approach mainly talks about  learners being very active and constructing their own knowledge; moreover, constructivist approach emphasizes on  learners being actively engaged, knowledge being personal which exists in their mind and fostering critical thinkers, motivating learners and creating an independent learners. However, lets go into main topic that is Constructive Tool.

What are constructive tool?

 Constructive tool are those applicants  which help learner to manipulate information, visualize one's understanding and construct their own knowledge. Some of the examples of constructive tool are as follow:

      1.Concept Map Program

A concept map is a visual organization  and representation of knowledge. Concept Map is a great way to build upon previous knowledge  by connecting new information back to it. 

 It helps users to brainstorm and visualize the relationships between ideas, concepts , or their understanding about the topic.

 

Moreover, it encourages students to think creatively about the topic.

  

 2. Desktop Publishing Program

Desktop Publishing (DTP) is the creation of documents using page layout software on desktop.

This program helps users to organize and present their ideas in an attractive format.

Some the popular  Desktop Publisher software are Adobe, Microsoft and Corel.

3.Word, Spread sheet and PowerPoint

These help organize, record, manipulate and present their ideas in attractive in the form of memos, reports,letters, presentations, record routine information.

Apart from  these tools, there are some others tool given as examples like  Electronic bulletin boards 

/ Moodle, MS-Publisher, multimedia authoring tool, social networking sites (Blog/facebook / twitter) and simulation. For further notes please visit this link :https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BQ0AJcaXsQVo8PG-5KHhZRsi8mrpQCdN/view?usp=sharing

Based on this tool, we were given an activity to create a simulation which was to advocate my village as a tourist agent to attract the tourists. However, this task was bit difficult without any sample to look upon but it was of a great experience of learning how to create one of our own simulation. After tutor's guidance it was much of help and I would say I was able to create much better simulation than before.

Other than all the tools mentioned above, I found simulation more appropriate while integrating  in classroom because simulation can be integrated to teach students a narration of stories, poem or anything on any topic just like a video tutorial. For further explanation on what is simulation and how  I have created please go through this link: 

  https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/my-drive

Constructive tool can be integrated in various way in teaching and learning.  Following are the some of methods to integrate constructive tool:

1. Letting students use  basic technology tools to create a brain storm or concept map for their project work or any other subject matter.
2. Teacher can create something   new way to deliver  the lesson using constructive tool like powerpoint, word or spread sheet.
3.  Allowing students to publish a brocher or  flyer of their own.
4. Let them use spread sheet  and word to write  and publish it on desktop.
5. Teacher can use it for assessing children's learning  by giving comment and feedback.
6. Students can use it in getting information fro teacher and teacher can use it for passing lesson to students through video lessons.

Therefore, I conclude that constructive tool is as effective as any other tool in teaching and learning. Moreover, constructive tool provides student the greater platform to construct their own knowledge and be an active learner.

That's all about constructive tool.  Happy Reading 🙂🙂🙂

The Second Tool.

Communication Tool

The second tool of Information Communication Technology as integration in teaching and learning is a communication tool. There was a presentation presented by the module tutor. From his presentation, I learnt the definition of communication tool, its two types, its definition with examples; their difference, why? And how to use communication tools in learning and teaching. Given below is the presentation link done by the module tutor:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/169lfYMDZvw19K0Y1GvkBudWElae3075kS8RhNuVhr5A/edit#slide=id.p3

Now, let’s go through what I have learnt from this session. I learnt that communication tool is applications that we can use to communicate to our family or to other people. Some of the examples given by our tutor are Gmail, Skype, Video conferencing, chat, Blog etc.

The two types of Communication tools are Synchronous and Asynchronous. Synchronous communication happens when both the sender and receiver are active at the same time. Like talking on telephone is the best example. Some more  examples of synchronous communication tools are video conferencing, Chat, Instant Messaging etc.

 Asynchronous communication happens when the sending and receiving occur  at different times. Like emailing and answering after few hours as receiver was not online. Some more examples of asynchronous  communication tools are Email, Web- based training, Pod casting, Computer- based Training and DVD.

From these two types of communication tool,  I realized we used most the time synchronous but as side by side we have also used asynchronous communication tool. But we have used video conferencing  only this year due to Covid-19 pandemic. However,  I found  using online classes through live video conference was such an amazing experience for me where teacher can be seen at the same moment and teaching us on the topic just like we are inside classroom face to face. Besides, we can get immediate  feedback as well.

There are lots of a difference between these two type of communicative tool and here are some of their differences:

Synchronous      

During synchronous, all students as well as facilitators need to be present. It is real time interaction with tutor and activities are done during class period itself where as  Asynchronous , students can attend whenever they want within the course time frame, facilitators need not have to be online at a given time, there is no real time interaction with tutors and tutors or students need to find time to communicate with each other for activities.                                      

Why to use the communication tool in teaching and learning?

Communication tool must be used in teaching and learning so that every individual  needs are fulfilled, more over teacher will be able to cater to the children's interest in learning as well as in teaching. Teacher can make class more lively and fun through different communication tools.

This tool has a greater advantage in communicating and socializing with teachers as well as students in learning as well in teaching. Besides advantages, there are numerous disadvantages of Synchronous and Asynchronous. Synchronous needs commitment for collaborators but if the technologies fail then the collaboration session is impossible. Whereas, using Asynchronous doesn’t help learners to get immediate feedback so it becomes difficult to keep track of the learner’s learning.  Therefore, I agree that using synchronous can be much advantage than Asynchronous.

That’s all about this second tool ‘’communication tool.’’ See you all when I come up with the third tool. 

Above all the varieties of  communication tools, we learnt how to create  a Blog. We were given an activity to create a Blog related to Information Communication Technology and it is a kind of reflective or learning profile about Information Communication Technology as integration in learning and teaching.  It was of great learning experience for me.

Happy Reading!😊😊😊

The first tool

Informative Tool

Information Communication Technology  as an Informative tool was the first tool we learnt for almost a week(23 March-27 March).Our module tutor presented his slides on Information Communication Technology as an Informative tool. Presentation made by my tutor is given below:

From his presentation, I learnt that informative tool can provide vast amount of information in various forms, such as text, graphics, sound and video; and even multimedia encyclopedias which are available in the Internet. Moreover,  I learnt why should we used Information Communication Technology as Informative tool. As presented in my tutor's presentation we need to use Information Communication Technology  as informative tool to get global information resources like latest news, weather forecasts, educational information, sports schedules etc.  Through his presentation  I realized that we have  been using ICT as informative tool through our life. We had used ICT as informative tool in getting educational information for writing our assignments. I also learnt that we can use ICT as informative tool because it has many advantages  like  getting relevant ideas, analyzing information, we can even develop information search skills and we can even evaluate resources in the internet. We use Information Communication Technology to gather information be it for educational purposes or personal.

When it comes to how do we used information communication technology as an informative tool, there are  so many ways in which we inculcate ICT as informative tool like we use ICT as source of information/ reference/ content for teachers or for ourselves, we use it for synthesizing, analyzing and manipulating our learning and opinions with evidence  and we construct our knowledge and meaning through referring information given in internet. In his presentation, there are some reference provided which indicates that he has used ICT as an informative tool for his presentation. Some of the reference from sir's presentation: 

These are not only the things I learnt from this lesson but I also learnt a lot more like  using appropriate search engines to find for information, we even created a presentation on the title '' Is Hitler a gay?''  using graphics, sound, text and movies. Here, in my presentation, I took my stand saying ''Hitler is a gay'' with the evidence that I could find through my reading material in online. Through this exercise, I could learn how to use relevant source for reference  and making our work authentic. Here is the presentation I prepared using ICT as an Informative tool:<

In near future, when I go to schools as teacher I can always used ICT as informative tool to find appropriate resources to make my work authentic and more over I can allow my students to search information through internet for their better writing or gaining more knowledge from internet.

See you all again when I write about second ICT tool, that is communicative tool.🙂🙂🙂  

Happy Reading ! 🙂                                                                  

 

Introduction to my Blog

Greetings to all!

This blog will take you through my learning profile of Information Communication Technology module (EDN 419) about Information Communication Technology as five main tool in teaching in learning. The Information Communication Technology can be used as five main tool in teaching and learning , they are  informative tool, constructing tool, communicative tool, co-construction tool and  situating tool.

These were five main tool that we can use Information Communication Technology  in our learning and teaching. Now, lets talk about the definition of these five Information Communication Technology through my own understanding.  The first one is information tool; from my understanding I understood that Information Communication Technology can be used as informative tool as it can provide vast amount of data in various form such as audio, videos and documents . According to my tutor explanation,  Information Communication Technology can be used as informative tool as it can provide us with varieties  resources for our studies likes sounds, graphics, texts , movies and so many more. Therefore,  I realized Information Communication Technology was used as informative tool by us in our day to day life but we didn't have the knowledge of Information Communication Technology being one of the tool.

The second tool is communication tool and I understood  that communicative tool means Information   Communication Technology can be used as a features which facilitates two- way communication between individuals or group.  Using email, skype, wechat, blog etc are some examples that were used by my tutor to explain on communicative tool.  The third tool is constructive tool, which means Information Communication Technology can be used as a tool to construct knowledge using MS-Word, Power Point, mind mapping etc.  The fourth tool is co-constructive tool which means Information Communication Technology can be used as a tool to co-construct the knowledge together example like  using google docs, virtual learning platform, discussion board etc. The last tool is situating tool which means that information Communication Technology can be used as situating tool as it can be by mean of virtual reality extension system, or computer can create 3-D images  to give the user the feeling of  situated in virtual environment. Example like creating a simulation to advertise and attract more tourists to visit our home town.

Therefore, I realized that we have used Information Communication Technology as varieties tools but in our day to day life ; we have used these five main tools as more prominent tools in our learning as well as in teaching.  From next, I will talk about how I have understood about different tool with examples and how I will implement what i have learnt in my near future in my classroom to integrate Information Communication Technology as Teaching and learning tool.  

Hope everyone  will enjoy going through my learning journal. Please enjoy reading!🙂🙂