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.

ICT as Informative tool

Third Reflection on blog

Information and communication technology (ICT) as informative tool

In both schools and homes, information and communication technologies are widely seen as enhancing learning. After discussing about informative tool I know the meaning of it that is an informative tool is an application which provides vast information or content to learners. The use of information and communication technology (ICT) increases students’ motivation to learn and explore new things and improved their confidence and became aware of their own learning and most importantly their creativity.

After learning about it, I know that the information and communication technology acts as a main tool for getting information. The uses of computer help us in getting information through various forms such as graphics, text, sound and movie. We can also use ICT as an informative tool in our classroom to provide information for the students, to analyze and synthesis and construct their own knowledge and meaning. It also helps students to organize, reorganize and improve their critical thinking and creativity. 

In the past, the teachers were the main source of information for the students and the students believe what their teachers say. The knowledge is limited and they depend solely on teacher and textbook. With the advancement of science and technology in our country, it makes our work much easier. The living standard become high and makes our life more comfortable. All the information that we need is uploaded in the internet and we can easily search from it. It also helps us to analyze the information and enhance our critical thinking.We can also provide the information through online such as google meet, vle and we chat. Moreover, we can use those forums and concepts to teach and provide information to the students in the future too. In this way, ICT act as an informative tool which expands our knowledge and analyzing skills.  

Introduction on blogging

Reflection on Blogging

Informative Communicative Tool (ICT) teaching and learning (EDN/ICT-419) is one of the interesting modules which teachers got to learn without exception. With advancement of modern technologies and endorsement of 21^st century pedagogies, ICT is playing a vital role to cater different types of learners (auditory, kinesthetic, linguistic and visual). The teaching is done with much ease for the teachers as well as the students also enjoy the freedom of comprehending information without much difficulty. We also discussed about SAMR and TPACK model. After discussing about it, I came to know about it clearly and the idea will be useful in the future too. 




One of the topics learnt in this module is ICT integration which unfurls sub-topic like low, medium and high level of integration. This is one of the main strategies most teachers practice on starting from primary education till tertiary level. With learning ICT integration, I knew how to effectively and appropriately integrate ICT in teaching. Task of designing activities and investigating case studies enabled expansion of understanding about the topic.

The activity of designing PowerPoint presentation titled “Was Adolf Hitler a gay?”  This enlarged not only skills of making PowerPoint presentation, but also on comprehending information beside gathering information. This gave insight of life of Adolf Hitler (history) beyond the ICT knowledge which indeed was greatest pleasure to do. After discussing about Hitler, I also know how to search related information online. 



The last topic we learnt was Blogging. We had created a blog site of our own which is earliest step to bringing milestone changes in personal development and career development.  Blogging was one of my curious topics that I longed for but I felt blessed having got to embark on with the blogging. Since it was ICT class, we were instructed to address the blog as relating to ICT classroom. Then I thought of a title as “Thinley and ICT integration at home”.  Entitlement should be one that gives hint to the content we are going to write, so did I. With the time and help of sir, I positively sight for further exploration about the blogging.