communicative tools

Communicative tools

The second tool that we learned was the Communicative tools.Within modern educational paradigm, the 21st century skills concept (Abbott, 2013) is motivated by the belief that teaching students the most relevant, useful, in-demand, and universally applicable skills should be prioritized in today’s schools, and by the related belief that many schools may not sufficiently prioritize such skills or effectively teach them to students. This includes the integration of ICT as a communicative tool between the teacher student and among the students beyond the physical barriers such as time or time of the classroom. It expands the creativity and the teaching and learning dimensions inside and outside the schools. ICT can be a powerful and flexible tool for learning, but like any other tool, it requires care and experience to use appropriately.

 The popular communication tools includes;

he highest ranking Communication tools identified include: 

•  Social networks
•  Blogs
•  Skype  
•  Writing.com
•  Mind Miester(mind maps)
•  Scribblar
•  Google Classroom 
•  Trello
•  Google presentation
•       You Tube
•       Adobe Connect
•       Red Pen
•       Evernote
•        PaperRater and etc

There are two types of communicative tools

Synchronous involves geographically dispersed students accessing the same web site at the same time as an instructor. This type of learning is commonly supported by internet communications media such as videoconferencing and chat. The instructor typically "drives" a slideshow presentation, which the students watch while connected to a conference web site. Students can ask questions or provide comments through the phone line, or through a chat window.  In other words, participants communicate at the same time, from different locations using the same communication tool. The best example for this kind of tool is the vle discussion forums and the videoconferencing tools such as Zoom and Meet apps.

Asynchronous, is a just-in-time, on-demand student learning experience. It is commonly facilitated by internet communications media such as e-mail and discussion boards. Students do not need to schedule their time around the predetermined plan of the instructor. There is complete flexibility with asynchronous training, which comes in two forms, facilitated and self-paced. Asynchronous e-learning makes it possible for learners to log on to an e-learning environment at any time and download documents or send messages to teachers or peers. In other words, participants communicate at different times from different places using the same communication tool.

This blog is a part of communicative tool where i write down my reflections on the lessons and my friends can comment and let me know if i have missed out anything or correct me if i make any incorrect statements. So, i believe the communicative tools provides us a very good platform to perform collaborative learning and share information with one another. 

Reference

Abbott S. (Ed.) (2013) The glossary of education reform. Retrieved from http://edglossary.org/hidden-curriculum