ICT as Informative Tool

I realized that ICT is an essential and a widespread means to perform meaningful tasks in modifying and modernizing present educational system and the mode of learning. Other than education, it is also valuable part of several aspects of the daily life. The five tools to assist effective teaching learning processes using ICT are:

1.       informative tool

2.      communicative tool

3.      constructive tool

4.      co-constructive

5.      situating tool

For now, let me discuss on ICT as informative tool. It is an application that provides large amounts of information in various formats such as text, graphics, sound or video. Among different sources of information like radio, television, newspaper; the most preferred source is the internet. Children and as well as adults rely on internet as a virtual textbook, virtual tutor, virtual study groups and reference library to gain different types information. and I as a learner depend maximum of my learning on internet. Without  internet I am sure enough that i will become handicapped.

Talking about internet as the most popular informative tool, it struck me with a very good example of its use in the teaching learning process. Recently the online studies are on its vigorous stage and we use internet to read the notes provided by the tutors; uploaded in the VLE. Not only the VLE, we use internet services to watch the videos, read the research papers for some topics and also listen to an audio which explains several topics on  respective subjects. These days television is used as well, virtual learning for children is taking place. Children get information on subject topics which proofs that television is also a part of informative tool.

Use of VLE via internet

There are benefits of these tools in learning and teaching cycle. As I need to follow accurate directions to step into valid information, I need to restructure my language gradually developing an information search skill which is to be accurate and precise. I as a learner also needed to  analyze and synthesize the information I get on the sources. While choosing the information,I had to choose the most relevant and authentic information among tones of information being provided. This will made me analyze the information critically to reach to the most authentic information.

After retrieving the information I wrote in my own words to increase comprehension and use for future reference as well. This has really helped me in enhancing the writing skill. all the information on the internet are persuading and I needed to be vigilant enough to collect the valid information thereby increasing the evaluating skill. Learning possibilities expands via different informative sources which will cater to individual learning differences. For example; I am a kind of learner who could learn through audio, so listening to audios that are recorded by the tutor were more effective in my learning. The utilization of ICT as informative tool is increasingly felt in recent times and is beneficial through appropriate exploration.

Audios of tutor which could be listened through internet to gain information