My Final Reflection

Well, I have come to the end of my reflection. I can guarantee myself that I have learned a lot from this reflection and it was fun exploring all the five tools of the ICT. 

I can say that all the five tools are woven together and none of it is segregated and these tools are interdepended. I have come across lots of tools that will help me as a student as well as a teacher in the future. All of us are aware to the core that ICT play a crucial role in today’s world. I feel that it is our pure luck that we were born into this world where our works are made easier due to the development of ICT around the world.

 ICT tools like google classroom, google doc, google map and other tools can be applied in the school and can be integrated in the lesson to make it more effective and fun for students to learn. Integrating ICT in the class will be worthy for students as well as teachers as students will be engaged thoroughly and teacher and students can co-construct meaning together.

Thank you sir Ugyen Wangchuk, my tutor for ICT for letting us reflect on this five tools and I can assure that I have learned a lot about the ICT tools and will be able to integrate these tools in the near future while teaching.  

Reflection on Google Classroom

Google Classroom 

I am very glad that I get to know how to use this interesting tool called google classroom and I deeply thank our ICT tutor Sir Ugyen Wangchuk. Google classroom is a suitable tool for teachers to use and specially in this situation were online teaching is favored and I can proudly say that this tool is perfect for students and teachers to learn collaboratively. 

 

One of my tutor said that she taught a large number of students online and at that time I wondered how that was possible but now, thinking carefully, I came to realize that there are many tools to learn and teach online. I am thinking that teaching online is much more convenient than rather coming physically to the class and teaching students. I really like this google classroom because it is very interesting. 

The virtual learning environment (VLE) that we use here in college and the google classroom is similar but I noticed that VLE is only available to the Paro college students and teachers whereas google classroom can be used by every teachers on this earth who have some knowledge to use this tool. 

I enjoyed exploring this tool and I think that it will help both teacher and student in the future. 

As a teacher, we want students to learn better and I assure that this tool will help them because we can upload  various type of materials that will help them learn effectively. 

 

There are many interesting features to use on google classroom. We can make announcement, assign them quiz, assignments, materials, questions, invite students as well as their parent if they have an google account and we also can create a rubrics for them to focus on their assignments thoroughly. 

This tool can be used in the school and I am thinking that this tool is a blessing for teachers as well as students. They can sit anywhere and can still learn with their teacher but on the condition that they access to the internet.

Reflection on Situating Tool

Hello everyone! Welcome back. 

Well, we learned about another ICT tool today and that is ICT as situating tool. When my tutor asked “what do you understand by the term situating”, I instantly panicked and my mind instantly went blank. There is nothing I can think of and fortunately, I didn’t get picked up for answering this question. The literal meaning of the term situating is the happening in and around our environment and I came to know that situating tools are application that helps to situate learners in an environment to experience the context and happenings. 

It also means the virtual reality in which the computer can give the user the feeling that are situated in virtual environment.

If you are also wondering how this tool helps in teaching and learning, let me tell you, there are many situating tools that will definitely help in teaching and learning for everyone. I have learned that this tool situates user in the environment and foster creativity and visualization skills. 

There are tools like 2-d graphing calculator which will allow us manipulate data and help us in learning all about graphing. We can use this tool to teach students the concepts about the graphing and I bet students will learn much more better than usual.

Getting to experience with my own hand was very exciting and I think that I am very lucky that I got this chance to use this tools now but my only regret is that I didn’t get the chance to use this tools when I was a student. If I were taught using situating tools, I think, I might have grasp the idea quickly and in the future, I will let students explore this tool which will help them tremendously.

Another interesting activity that we did in the class is about google map. It was very fun and while my tutor was demonstrating us on how to use the google map, I was so excited that I couldn’t sit idly with my monitor closed. I did found this tool in my phone but I couldn’t use it because I had no idea how to use this tool and who knew that this tool will be very useful and fun to play with after the exploration.  

 Through this tool, we can teach many subjects like social studies, science and geography. Students will be able to have a real experience of the earth looks like and will also help in the memory retention. We can also take a tour around the world not just in our country. Even though we cannot reach those places physically, at least with the help of this tool, we can take a tour around and it is as same as we are physically there enjoying ourselves.  

 

We can just seat around and as long as we have internet connection, I can say that the world is on the tip of our hand and how wonderful is that! It was really fun exploring this tool and I learned a lot. 

We also learned about Phet simulation and it was very engaging and it felt like we are experiencing it with real life situations as we can change the variables and manipulate the data.

 

 

We just explored on pH scale but there are lots and lots of other simulations in various subjects that we can use and download for our students so that they learn more effectively and for them to become a critical and creative students as well as for the teachers. It was fun learning all these things.