ICT as communicative tool

Fourth Reflection on Blog

Information and communication technology (ICT) as communicative tool  

After discussing about the communicative tool I realize that one of the fundamental skills that every one of us should possess is to have good communication skills. Education is the basic need of every human being and today’s technology has a big part in every sphere of life. In fact, education is the most important investment by countries, societies, families and individuals for the future. A communication network has become an essential tool in today’s educational environment than ever before. Today’s society is said to have entered into the age of a new social revolution that is ‘information revolution’. The 21^st century has witnessed the explosion of information technologies.

By digital revolution, technologies in computers, audio-visual devices, and communications are integrated into a powerful technology-information technology. The global era is characterized by rapid advances in technology and expansion of knowledge. Basically technology is nothing but a tool used in implementing our ideas and methodology in education. In addition teacher must have good communication skills to help our students achieve their academic success. We also use communicative tool as a means to learn in the online classes. 

Communicative tools are those applications which enable easy communication. Some of the communicative tools that help us in communicating through various forms are g-mail, we-chat, messenger, face book and video conferencing. We can also use ICT as a communicative tool in our classroom to convey the messages for the students, to analyze and think critically and develop speaking skills. We also use we chat group to communicate and pass message to one another and learn together at the same time. We can also apply the same concept in the future and help students learn better through we chat and other means of communication tools. 

We also learn two types of communications skills and they are synchronous (also called real time, in which users must be simultaneously connected, rather like a telephone call) and asynchronous (not requiring the people communicating to be logged on the internet at the same time). Some the ways to communicate through synchronous are videoconferencing and face to face whereas asynchronous includes e-mail, vle discussion forum and blog. We also learn how to create a blog and what we need to do or write in the blog. We create our own blog and give address to our blog. In this way ICT act a communicative tool which brings a greater impact in our life.