ICT as Constructive Tool (Google toolkit)

 ICT as Constructive Tool

Hello everyone,

This is my third blog. I hope that after reading this blog it will help everyone to get some knowledge about the ICT tools that are in the Google app. 

Co-constructive tool refers to

those tools which can be used to manipulate information, construct their own knowledge or visualize students understanding. 

Google classroom is an example of ICT as a constructive tool. This is an amazing online platform because it allows the teacher provide reading materials to the students. Teacher can also assign quiz assignments to the students and they can submit their assignments online without any difficulty.  We can also add answer keys and feedbacks to the questions that we have created. 

Like face to face learning, this tool also allows the teacher to make announcements whenever necessary. Teachers can also invite co teachers and invite all students or only a selected students.
 

Importance of Google Classroom in Education

1. Easy to use and Accessible from all devices

Apart from being delivered through the Chrome browser, which makes it accessible from all computers, mobile phones, tablets, it makes it really easy for us to create google documents to manage assignments and announcements, post you tube videos, add links or attach files from the drive. 

2. Effective feedback

Google Classroom gives us the opportunity to offer  online support to our learners right away; this means that feedback becomes more effective, as fresh comments and remarks have bigger impact on learners’ minds.

3. Speed up the Assignment Process

In Google classroom we can easily check who has submitted their assignment and who is still working on it and offer immediate feedback to their learning. 

Another example of ICT as a co constructive tool is Google docs where we can form a group and let students discuss about a particular topic. For an example, the picture below shows the discussion that we have carried out on the topic 'our country' with our group members. 

Familiarizing with this ICT tools is very important because to teach effectively in the class, this are some of the basic things that we have to know. By knowing about this tools we can provide a wide variety of learning platforms to our students. 

Even if we have to learn and teach through online platforms, we can do it effectively without any difficulty by using these tools. In conclusion, I can say that these lessons were very effective for me as a teacher. By knowing this tools helped me realize that ICT indeed is a great subject to study for the future of the students and ourselves.