Summary

 

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) gives various platforms through which we can learn and make our teaching more interesting and meaningful. To start off, ICT as communicative tools helps in communication between students and teachers overcoming the barrier of space and time. Tools like social media and blog, language learning app, email and messaging, allow learners to exchange ideas, solve doubts, receive feedback, thereby enhancing the learning experience.

Further, ICT as informative tools refers to the use of ICT to gather, access and disseminate information. Or it refers to the application that provides various information or content to the learners. This tool of ICT helps in bringing greater benefits to educators and learners. By using the Virtual Learning Environment (VLE), telegram, Facebook, We Chat and many more, learners can gain knowledge far beyond the four walls of the class and support independent and self-directed learning. We can incorporate those tools in our lessons seamlessly and make learning effective.

Moreover, ICT as constructive tools enables people to generate new ideas of teaching and learning through technology. For instance, concept map, desktop publishing, word, spread sheet, power point, google classroom and social networking sites, they all allow learners to construct knowledge. Among these, I use ppt to make my presentation visually appealing and write easy to remember notes. Even, I have learned to create and use Google classroom where I can assign work, grade my students work, upload the notes, which greatly helps in the educational journey. Therefore, I can’t wait to use this tool when I am truly in my field.

Additionally, ICT acts as a situating tool where I have explained about it in the form of video. ICT as a situating tool help to situate learners in a realistic environment, so that they can experience the context of happenings. Some examples could be virtual realistic (VR), augmented reality (AR), simulation such as Phet, graphic calculator, google map, GeoGebra and many more.

Lastly, in this blog I have written reflection about assistive technology, especially about JAWS and Brialle display. Assistive technology is a device, software, tools that help people with disabilities perform tasks more easily and independently. JAWS and Brialle both helps people with visual problem to do tasks. Therefore, this knowledge about assistive tools and ICT as different tools help me gain more insight about technologies and their benefits.

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