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.