Situating tool

Situating tool

 Nowadays the role of information Communication Technology(ICT), in the education plays an important role, especially in the process of empowering the technology into the education activities. ICT plays a catalytic role in enhancing learning in classroom and beyond.  We are fascinated with technology and it encourages and motivates us to learn in the class. Today we learned many new things like, using google maps and finding places. We also learned how to calculate time of different places. I have learned many new techniques and the real world applications of simulation tool. Simulation tool is a virtual reality extension systems, where the computer can create 3-D images on display to give the feeling that are situated in a virtual environment.  A flight simulation program is an example of situating tool which places the user in a simulated flying environment.

We also learned how to create graphs using graphcalc. It was really fun and useful. We were taught how to read and think analytically how graph will form looking to its equation. We did an examples and it was very useful as we did the activity. I understood how to plot a graph in graphcalc.  It is very useful and we can teach student  how to plot graphs in graphcals  rather than giving them to write manually. 

 We learned how to find places using google map. I learned different features on google map like, we can check the distance of one place to another and we can even see the latitude and longitude of any place from google map and we learned how to calculate time . We explored and found out where our houses were located through satellite view where we could even  make a tour of 360 degree to see the place which was really fascinating and fun to explore those new ideas on google map. 

We even learned about the PhET simulation. It is a simulation that provides fun, free, interactive computer simulation for teaching and learning. It can be run online or downloaded for free from the PhET website. The simulation are animated, interactive, and game-like environments where students learn through exploration. It was really fun to try those simulation and hoping to use those PhET simulation to make student to explore an entire learning worth content in great detail with many different activities. They are designed to be fun and engaging.