ICT as situating tool

ICT as situating tool

Situating tools are the applications that help to situate learner’s in an environment to experience the context and happenings.

Experience before simulation

Before beginning the lesson we are asked to look for simulation that can help to teach any concept from the primary curriculum. Initially I had a vague idea on simulation, I thought simulation as creating one slide ppt incorporating all the points in one slide.

Experience after simulation

However, after attending class on simulation and making simulation on advertising our village. I got clear idea on simulation and how this act as situating tool. Besides, in this lesson I have learnt to plot a graph just by looking at the equation.

For eg: y=mx+c (linear Equation)

          

            Y=-2x+5

Positive 5 will show the intersection of line in the y axis.

-2x is called slope, and negative will move to left direction and if it is positive it will move to right 

direction .

And to find the intersection on x axis we have to replace y as 0

i.e., : 0= -2x+5

              2x=5

            

              x=5/2

              x= 2.1 

           

This retrieved me with a flashback from my school days. Now I can proudly say that I can plot the graph without the need of the variables. I enjoyed the follow up activity where sir made us to draw the graph without using the computer. At first we used Graphc calc as a situating tool to plot graph. Using Graphic calc was interesting where we just have to enter the equation and the graph is automatically generated there. I even thought if something like this would have been taught in school days then we could have learnt it easily.

Image of  graph calc

Reflection

After learning simulation I got a clear idea of using ICT as situating tool. I found this very effective for learners. When I was using pH scale situating tool, and Google map I enjoyed using it and motivated me to explore more. So I felt that it is very informative and effective to the learners. I thought if atlas were taught using Google map, I think I won’t be that bad in locating place and calculating time in geography.

Image of ph scale of phet simulation

Image of Google map in satellite view

Future Commitment
When I get enrolled as a teacher in one of the school, I am going to focus on achieving optimum utilization of ICT in learning. There I am going to integrate ICT in my lesson especially the situating tool to help learner achieve learning efficiency. Moreover, I would extract every opportunity to make use of ICT as a primary tools to make my students an enthusiast learners.

Facebook as co-constructive tool

Facebook as co-constructive tool

In this lesson sir created class group in Facebook where we have to uploads our video works for comment and like. In that we uploaded our video generated using camtesia software. Making video using camtesia itself was an exploring quest towards learning and experiential journey in achieving ICT mandate.

Going through whole sets of different videos was at time challenging as well as interesting experiences. There we can view how different ideas are creatively elaborated through video presentation. Watching video was full of learning as different individual had beautifully and creatively incorporated their ideas into video. Moreover, commenting each other works creates platform to detect our mistakes and make immediate correction.

Therefore, incorporating such learning in Facebook came out to be significant one as to bring out different ideas and knowledge together. Beside it was inclusive in nature that it helps in building confident of students facing camera and immediate correction can be done without wasting much of time. Thus, Facebook not only helps in learning collaboratively but also it helps in making quality and informative works.

Google Doc as co-constructive tool

ICT as co-constructive tool

Co-constructive tool are the applications that supports the construction of knowledge through a shared understanding.

In this lesson our main focus was on google doc. It was totally a new learning for me. We can work on a single document with teammates. We can also invite people through email for editing, view or comment option. We can even chat and discuss about our document. I found it very informative and in fact an experiential one.

Picture of goggle doc and some important feature that i learned

After going through Google doc, I felt that if an only all the assignment assigned in group were made to do in Google doc, then only it would be fair enough for the entire students. And the plus point is it helps the student to learn collaboratively and helps in exchanging ideas and knowledge ensuing individual capacity and growth.

Now the generation sets on technologies especially ICT becomes the immediate need for all the students. Therefore with the emergence of importance in ICT, hereafter I will make the student to use Google doc, as it is not only easy to bring all the ideas together but also helps the student and teacher learn collaboratively.