Information and
Communication Technology (ICT) and its integration in teaching and learning
creates avenue for transforming and enriching the better education.
The technology can help
educators in facilitating their teaching which will enhance teaching quality
for strengthened education. ICT can be used as five separate tools to assist
effective teaching and learning.
ICT as:
1.
informative tool.
2.
communicative tool.
3.
constructive tool.
4.
co-constructive tool.
5.
situating tool.
ICT as Informative tool
The applications which
provide vast storage of information/content to learners’ activity is what I learned at very first when introduced to ICT
informative tools. I could also learn that the informative tool can be regarded as passive repositories
of information for the learners. Myself as one of the users just needs to activate and apply
the information in learning which creates active learning. ICT has always been a
great help to person’s curious mind through the support of vast information in those
applications. The ICT has now become the most approached applications for any
information learners look for. I could also reflect on my actions where I depend and think for the information from the internet for every queries I get. This solely indicates how importantly ICT has become for retrieving of ideas.
The information
provided can be seen in large amount in various formats which includes
information in text, graphic representation, and information in sounds and
through video/movies. These various formats of the information are very useful
for the teachers in the planning. I can vividly remember how I made used of the information and ideas for planning my teaching lesson from all those formats during my teaching teaching practicum in one of the schools. Those formats really benefited me as a teachers to integrate those formats into my planning to
cater all individual learners considering all learning styles and individual uniqueness. Information in different
formats supports effective learning. Learners have choice to grasp information
from any format they learn easily and better. For example, sounds for those who
learn better through auditory sense, and text, video and graphics for visual
learners. All formats of information have increased chance for learning with
better choice and opportunities. These are some experiences I can relate with the ideas that I could learn from this tool.
The lesson on informative tool could help me to see good list of
ICT based sources on which learners can depend for information. The information
sources such as Television, Radio and Internet. Moreover, I could understand about Internet which has gained popularity;
most common and preferred source for the information by the learners. Including myself people prefer internet to
rest of the sources considering it as most significant ICT tool for learning
which also includes Social Medias, Chat room, Forums and Blogs. For example, in
the current situation of COVID-19, learning through e-learning environment has
gained importance and has become choice for teaching and learning. Students of
the nation are taught through television and TV has now become most significant
source of information for teaching and learning. Similarly, despite the shutdown
of schools and colleges, college students are still into learning through use
of internet; VLE (Virtual Learning Environment). Students login and learn
through the text, videos, audios and graphics uploaded in forums for the
information. Social media applications, chat room and forum have also gained
importance for the exchange of information.
The information tool
has huge benefits in teaching and learning. The students are advantaged with
enough ideas and information to integrate/add on what they already know. The students’
engagement into use of ICT applications have benefited in developing their
information searching skills and also learned on how to look for and evaluate
resources on internet. Besides learning, it has also catered in enhancing
critical thinking of the learners stimulated by the information encountered.
These are some of the advantage I could see for using ICT to rely for information.
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Hello Yeshi
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