This idea is inspired by Vygotsky's social development theory. So in this digital world, ICT is used as collaborative tools in various forms to interact and share personal experiences in a group. When I was in high school, I don't we don't have any idea of using ICT as collaborative tools of learning and I hardly remember teacher making use of ICT inside the class.
Through my personal experience I would say that making use of mobile phones had greater advantages in collaborative learning . It is because I mostly use WeChat and I also has more than 15 groups in which I really enjoy the way we discuss. We also have class WeChat group for each module in which we can discuss the solutions for the problems. All together can come up with affective solution. So, in a way I feel that it is important for a teacher to have WeChat group with their students so that it will be far convinent for the students to throw their doubts and all come up with fruitful results even during weekends.
Collaborative discussion in ICT WeChat forum
members in 4pcc ICT WeChat forum
With the help of WeChat I can able to construct many new ideas and knowledge through collaborative discussion.
One very good example of ICT as collaborative tool is 'creating good docs'.
Actually this idea was new for me but as we are asked by the tutor to join in google docs and plan a lesson. At first I was bit confused on how to use it but slowly I learned from my friends and can easily do it. There we can communicate and at the same time we can also write. I was glad to know that we can also comment one each one's sentence and collaboratively we came with excellent lesson plan.
ICT integrated lesson plan
Therefore, through my personal experience I would suggest to all my friends to make use of those tools in daily life to enhance learning. At the same time it is also important for us as a teacher to teach those concepts to our students for better learning. Sometime it is important for us to let student discuss using those ICT tools so that it can help them in knowledge building because there will be different ideas from different individuals.
The way how you came up with true expression of experiential learning is very touching.However, it would have been even better if you could put some more collaborative pictures in it.
ReplyDeleteDhan, You have reflected very well on the co-constructive tools. You have clearly shared your experiences with the tools and the examples you have shown are relevant.
ReplyDeleteHello Dhan
ReplyDeleteYour reflection on co-construtive tools is impressive with relative images to support your idea and you also share some of the example you as a user of those tools. Thank you