ICT as information tool

Levels of technology integration (Reflection)

On February 20^th, we were introduced about the level of technology integration(Basic, middle and high level). In the basic level of technology integration the new technological techniques do not involve a substantial change in learning and teaching process.  In the middle level of technology, ICT replaced the traditional teaching from teacher centered teaching to the learner centered learning by providing practice questions through the projector in the classroom. This is easier for the teacher without the traditional way of teaching. ICT provides enough practice and gives exposure to the students to learn more. Even in the absence of the teacher, the student can work and complete the work through online and when possible, the teacher will go through it and provide necessary comments. It is more of a student-centered classroom than a teacher-centered classroom. Teacher acts as a facilitator. The student initiates and explores the information on the topic they have chosen. The teacher monitors and clears the doubts when needed.

In the high level the technology  is used by students to help them through a variety of important learning processes. It allow students to make links among member of content areas and uses various learning tools and develop thinking and creativity skills.

The five types of ICT tools;

1) Informative tools

Informative tools are applications that provide vast amounts of information in various formats such as text, sound, graphics or video.  Informative tools do not really ‘do’ anything; rather they are considered as huge, passive repositories of information.  Examples of informative tools include multimedia encyclopedias or resources available on the World Wide Web (WWW).  It provides a vast amount of information, such as text, graphics, sounds and videos. Students can download relevant information using a computer as an information tool. The computer provides us all the necessary information as it is n informative tool. It allows one to be in touch regardless of the distance and time.

With access to information tools, we can easily download relevant information . Subsequently, we can use this captured information as source materials, which should be reorganized for our component assignment or presentation projects. When integrated  with lessons , Informative tools can provide information for students to manipulate and form which knowledge can be constructed.

We were asked to reflect on how we can integrate the informative tool in teaching and learning. In order to integrate the informative tool in teaching and learning, teachers can support students to process information by helping them to organize new information, link it to their prior knowledge and use memory aids to retrieve information. Teachers must provide information for the students in the beginning or during or after the activity. It is also the responsibility of the teachers to motivate students to construct their own knowledge and meaning so that the students learn to integrate relevant ideas, analyze the information, develop information search skills, enhance critical thinking and they learn to evaluate resources on the internet.

There are various sources that are used to search for information such as the internet, radio, television. I prefer to choose the source internet in the top priority because it is the source where we can get information in the short period of time and the internet provides us useful information, data, and knowledge for the personal, social, economic development. It has the ability to connect billions of computers and devices to each other and it creates convenience in sharing and receiving information between users. To understand more on the informative tools we were assigned to prepare and present slides on the topic 'Is Hitler a gay?'

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