Reflection on Co-constructive tool

Co-constructive tool

Just as the word co-construct means, a co-constructive tool is an approach, where it is an emphasis on collaboration, and partnership working. It also includes the process of interaction such as cooperation and coordination among us. We are all aware of how this tool is important in our day to day life and how it impacts our life. 

Through Co-constructive tool, the communication between the teacher and learners that focuses on learning will improve drastically and students will able to explore and share their views in term of learning. They will also be able to build a relationship between society to have effective communication and learning.  We can develop creative partnerships within the classroom as well as societies and use constructive tools to work cooperatively and construct a shared understanding of new knowledge. Students can achieve high-level cognitive processes like explanation, problem - finding, problem solving and more relevant skills that are in their life.

 After knowing what and the importance of co-constructive tool, I think it is very important in our life as a student and soon to be a teacher. Because we can use co-constructive tools, we can communicate and construct ideas from anywhere within short period of time. For example, as of our situation now, where we have to keep our physical distance and where schools and colleges being closed, we have no other options but to use these tools to continue our learning. 

The perfect example of this tool is Google Doc.  When my tutor first told us that we are going to make a integrated lesson plan using google doc, I honestly didn't have any idea about it. Until now, I have absolutely no idea what is google doc and the purpose it serves. Google doc is a word processor and can be used simultaneously by team members on the same document. It gives us the privilege to work together from different places at the same time. 

 

 

 This are the pictures that we worked on google doc while planning a integrated lesson plan lesson plan on any topic. 

Just by looking at the pictures, we can see that there is a discussion taking place and we all can work collaboratively with other members.  I guess this tool is much more better than really coming together physically to discuss. We can be at anywhere we like and still work together like its no big deal. 

Because of this co-constructive tool, I came to conclusion that this tool can be definitely used in school. We can give them project work or any activities and let them work using goggle doc and I am sure that they will work collaboratively among their friends and learn fruitfully.

Reflection on Constructive Tools

Constructive tool

What do you understand by the term constructive tool? 

From my understanding, its is a tool used for manipulating information; visualizing one's understanding and building new knowledge. In other words, I think it means that we can construct new meaning with the help of ICT. The computer itself can be used for manipulating information, visualizing ones understanding and building new knowledge. I think the perfect example of constructive tool can be Microsoft word. The Microsoft word computer program itself is a desktop publishing software that allows users to organize and present their ideas in attractive formats.

 

Till class twelve, all of our assignments and even the activities that we do in our class are all in notebook. We would finish tons and tons of notebook for a single subject, but after entering the college, our assignments are all submitted online and we have minimum use of notebooks. We made use of constructive tools like Microsoft word, presentation, excel and many more and that made our work much more easier and convenient. 

 We can design a presentation using power point by inserting pictures, animations, sound and videos which help both the learners and the teachers. And we just did that in one of our activities. We were asked to make a simulation, using only one slide. Honestly, it was quite hard to make a presentation using only one slide because we are used to making a presentation using as many slides as it takes. To be able to present whole ideas in just one slide was challenging but it was worth trying because I got a deep understanding of using features like animation, transition, slideshow and many other features. I came to realize that i have been using this features on the surface not at all realizing the exact purpose of each feature and now i am absolutely aware thanks to the activity that my tutor gave us.

Below is my simulation and the link to my simulation.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JRP6zGsj5pnxU2h8_lkH507LiswnJFCR/view?usp=sharing 

 

 

 

I came to realized that most of us use and integrate constructive tools to communicate among our friends, teacher, family and other people all around the world. Usage of constructive tool helps both the learner and the teachers to convey and comprehend concept. I must say constructive tools are very essential for teaching and learning a particular concept, where students will have an equal opportunity to share their information. For instance, making lesson plan using Microsoft word is much more convenient than actually writing it down. 

 Like I have already mentioned, actually computer itself is constructive tool that is used for manipulating, visualizing and building new knowledge.

For instance, let’s take the example of Google doc.

 

Google doc is one of the constructive tool. Currently, we are writing a lesson which is integrated with ICT and I can see that it is very engaging and useful tool to hold a discussion. It is a very interesting tool because we can create our own group and carry on discussion with our friends. It is a self-directed learning where students alone could work without or with teacher where it breaks the monotonous way of teaching and learning. It enables learner to become a creative thinker and create their own knowledge. In line to that learner can retain it for longer duration because constructive tool make the learners to do more of hands on experience.

 I found out that constructive tool is very interesting and engaging where students explore through different tools to construct their own knowledge and keeps students engage throughout the lesson unlike the teaching in normal class. 

We could integrate constructive tool in our lessons through manipulation of the information and planning the lessons in a power point presentation and by creating blog and goggle classroom to have interactive teaching and learning. In the current situation where all the schools and colleges are closed, if there are no constructive tools, we all will be left in the dark. It is because of the constructive tools that we are able to learn continuously without any stop. Therefore, I came to conclusion that constructive tool is one of the effective teaching and learning methods which help the learners to learn effectively with full engagement throughout the lesson.