Informative tools

Reflection on ICT as informative tool.

What do we know about the ICT as informative tools?What do we know about the usefulness and appropriateness of informative tools for educational purpose? What are the advantages of using ICT as informative tools?

ICT plays a vital role and contributes to universal access to education, equity in education and the delivery of quality teaching and learning.  Technology has been supported in various ways to teach and learn. It is important to acknowledge that students are already interested and engaged in using technology because it gives amazing opportunities for teacher and students to improve their knowledge retention, encourage individual learning, collaboration and acquire many important skills. The integration of ICT tools such as informative, communicative, constructive, co-constructive and situating tools can take us through the different stage of teaching and learning. For now I will reflect on what an informative tool is and how it helps in effective teaching and learning process.

Informative tools are applications that provide various information in different format such as video, audio, text, internet and graphics. ICT has made our teaching and learning more convenient and effective. And I believe that with the rapid changes in education system demands hands-on-experience and the use of ICT. Learning from different informative tool is much better than learning from normal lecture as we get to explore lots of information from different sources. Through this we are learning effectively, provided with the creative idea to reshape our existing knowledge.   

Among the informative tools internet is one of the most appropriate and most preferred informative tool used in educational purposes. Let me reflect on how internet serves educational purposes. The development of internet technologies has raised the education system. Nowadays students are engaged through e-learning to continue their learning and it has changed the way students are being taught. Internet application responds to student’s question in real –time. As we can see multiple information uploaded on the internet, it helps the learning process as it simplifies the knowledge and visualizes what is being taught. Through the session on informative tools I learned that in order to have effective teaching and learning the teacher needs to provide the information / references/ content for the student in the beginning, during or after the activity. When we use ICT as informative tools we get to learn how to integrate relevant ideas, analyze the information and develop web evaluation skills. 

The informative tools have been crucial in the evaluation of education system in various ways. Hence it should be used for good purposes. It has had a great impact on imparting education to the children. This informative tools make content more enjoyable and leads to higher order thinking skills and students can gain genuine learning experience , collaboratively constructing their own knowledge and applying their learning’s in real-world context.