ICT as a communicative and constructive tools

In today’s digital era, communication is easier than ever before. People can connect with each other, share online content with the click of a button and work together on projects regardless of distance. So the second tool that we have discussed is ICT as communicative tools. A communicative tool is the applications which enable easy communication between the teacher and students, among students beyond the physical barrier. It also helps teacher to improve communication and interaction with participants, fellow teachers and parents. Some of the communication tools are; Skype, discussion forum, emails, zoom, Face book etc. 

After going through discussion I came to know that communication is classified into two types;

• Synchronous (enables real-time communication, helps solving urgent issues)
•       Example: chat, telephone call, video conferencing.

• Asynchronous (not requiring the people communication to be logged on the internet at the same time)
•       Example: e-mail, VLE discussion forum, we chat, face book, blog, wiki etc.

     Discussion on we chat and VLE forum

    

                                 Video conferencing in ZOOM 

Under this we also looked at what is blog? A blog is an online journal or a platform where a writers share their views on an individual subjects. As an activity we were asked to create our blog using blogger.com but before that we watched the videos uploaded by our tutor in VLE forum.

blog created using blogger.com

Before i heard a word blog quite a lot but after going through this topic i knew how to create blog using our gmail account.How and what we have to post in our own blog. we used communication tools like We-chat, VLE and Zoom for the discussion. Communication is not limited to phone calls and text messages and can communicate with others through different means of technology. So i can use this types of communication tools with my students when i go for teaching for effective teaching and learning.

ICT as a constructive tools

In the next session, we discussed on the topic ICT as the constructive tools in VLE which was really enriching- all of my classmates participated where we raise and clear our doubts. As an activity we got a task to design one page simulated advertisement to attract visitor to our locality using PowerPoint presentation with only one slides incorporating all the features and animation. By doing this I was able to use my ideas and information to construct something new.

Constructive tool means the computer/tools used for manipulating information, visualizing one's understanding and building/creating new knowledge. These constructive tools has been used in many ways but we did not recognize it. Some examples of constructive tools are; electronic bulletin boards/Moodle, Social networking sites (blog/face book/twitter), DTP/In-designs/ MS Publisher, Simulation, etc.

Constructive tools emphasis on constructivism theory, where the knowledge is constructed or builds upon. Here knowledge is constructed by the individual and learning takes place if the individual can construct their own knowledge and apply or generalize it in a new situation. So this task of making simulation helped me in improving my skills to work with the power-point. It was great experience where I was able to insert my own voice, song, pictures and shapes in a single slide. I used my past knowledge to organize and present their ideas in attractive format. I think this experience will help me a lot when making presentation, videos and etc. in the future.

In the upcoming blogs there will be discussion on remaining tools.