Reflection on ICT as constructive tool

ICT as constructive tools

Constructivism seeks to connect theory to practice and views students as “thinker, creator and constructor” of his own knowledge. Constructive tools are a general purpose tool that can be used to manipulate information, construct their own knowledge or visualize students understanding. Constructive  tools such as Microsoft Word or Power Point has a strong impact in the educational environment. This tool is based on the idea of constructivist believe that human learning is constructed, that learners build new knowledge upon the foundation of previous knowledge and this prior knowledge influences what new or modified knowledge and individual will construct from new learning experience.  Adding constructive activities to the lesson will be great way to make more active learning experiences, promote student agency, and develop advanced skills such as critical thinking, analysis, evaluation and creation.

This tool is a way ahead of facilitating effective teaching and learning. Integration of constructive tool is also one of the teaching pedagogy. Teacher can use these tools to deliver the contents in the form of PowerPoint and any other tools making it more creative and attractive. It provides opportunity to students, to use technology in conventional ways to build knowledge and experiences. For example, activation of former learning activities such as KWL chart erects a structure upon which information can be built are also effective but when this activities are done on computers, there is more opportunity for individual construction and reflection and capacity for inserting tables and graphics may add to promote visual retention for the learner. Additionally, ability to store these individual constructions on computer enhances the probability that they will be reused and reviewed.

PowerPoint is a widely used constructive tool where we can use graphics, add animation and any other multimedia features and it is very advantageous in the context of increasing creativity among students. When we are given the activity to create the simulation advertisement of our locality, despite having knowledge of my locality it gave an opportunities to explore more about the locality and to create simulation. By getting lots of knowledge on this content it helped me to come up with the unique simulation. I got the skill-based training for authoring the tools and fundamental concepts of incorporating multimedia design process. In addition, this tool provides impulsive information sharing, constructing knowledge and stimulated personal growth.   

I found out that constructive tool is very engaging where students get expose to different sources and information to construct their own knowledge. Unlike teaching in traditional classes we can always keep our students engaged through the integration of constructive tool in our lesson to have interactive session, or to have students centered sessions. It always helps learner to learn in absence of teacher and allows learners to participate actively in learning.