Constructive tool

                                                                  ICT as a Constructive Tools

Constructive tool is a general purpose tool that can be used to manipulate information, construct their own knowledge or visualize students understanding. Constructive tools are general-purpose tools that can be used for manipulating information, constructing one’s own knowledge or visualizing one’s understanding.  The term ‘constructive’ stems from the fact that these tools enable students to produce a certain tangible product for a given instructional purpose. 

Constructivist approach to teaching and learning emphasis:

ü  students' need to construct their own understanding

ü  learners are the markers of meaning and knowledge

ü  learning is more effective when a student is actively engaged

ü  all knowledge is personal and exits in mind

ü  foster critical thinking and creates motivated and independent learners

ü  it constitute a shift from teacher to learner centered pedagogy

ü  technology triggers constructivist learning by helping learner to adopt explore and practice.

Examples of Constructive tools 

•   electronic bulletin boards/ moodle
•  DPT/in-designs/MS publisher
•  Multimedia authoring tools
•   social networking sites(blogs/Facebook/twitter
•  simulation

Out of many constructive tools, i am familiar with moodle, MS publisher, twitter and Facebook as we are more in touched with this media.

We were taught how ICT acts as constructive tool and as an activity we were asked to produce video using simulation. I designed one page simulated advertisement about my village, Pemagatshel.The learning was very effective as we got to be creative, got to play with our ideas and it provides deep understanding of a given concepts. Simulation are traditionally defined as programs, which simulate real-life environment.
 https://vle.pce.edu.bt/mod/assign/view.php?id=60043