ICT
as a co-constructive tool highlights
on teamwork, and collaboration working. Using the co-constructive tool children
can interact with one another learns from the colleagues to develop their knowledge.
The use of collaborative technology in an educational context increases
students' engagement with course content enriches the learning process and
enhances active participation through content creation. The co- constructive
tool engages both teacher and the students to come up with an efficient
product.
Through the co-constructive
tool it serves benefits like to exploration and sharing of views in term of
learning. Children can develop strong and efficient relationship with the
teacher and the society for effective learning. Students can co-edit and help each
other with the best ideas. It also have advantages on higher order thinking
level as students need to reason out when they write something, provide explanations
and negotiate among themselves to finalize the information shared.
During the session, we
were introduced to what is a co-constructive tool and what are its
benefits. From various examples we used Google docs as
a collaborative tool and it
was quite an interesting tool to be used. Google Docs is a
free, web-based word processing, presentations and spreadsheets program. Unlike
desktop software, Google Docs lets people create web-based documents,
presentations and spreadsheets that anyone in the group can update from his/her
own computer, even at the same time.
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| Preparing lesson plan in the groups of three using Google Docs |
It had benefits like providing each other valuable feedback and discussions.
When I used Google Docs I was able to read and comment almost as soon as my
friends shared their work with me. With the comment section, I found myself giving
more supplements and feedback and also contribute to the discussion than I usually do on regular basis. This
provides everyone with more individualized instruction and gives us valuable
formative comments that will help improve the quality of the work. Google Docs helps us to improve group assignments,
allowing us to interact and collaborate online, thus enhancing our learning
experience.
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Hello Yeshi,
ReplyDeleteWell reflected on ICT as co-constructive tool and the information are well presented which are very informative for the viewers. You have even shared how it has bebefited you as a learner especially the use of Google docs with images as evidence. As a viwer, i'm inspired by your writeup and learned that its very important to incorporate such tools in the lessons to enhance collaboration among children beyond the class.