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.
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