Communication tool

Communication tool

ICT can also be used as communicative tool. Communicative tools are ICT application which allows the teachers and the students with easy communication medium. It is commonly used by the Teachers while giving task through mail, call, video conferencing, wechat and VLE forums. It also provides an easy access for students to summit their task and clarify the doubts. Therefore, ICT as a communicate tool is an easy medium for both the teachers and the students.

As a teacher, using ICT in the classroom as a communicative tool has many benefits. For example, teacher can post the questions on VLE forum and the students can read and respond to it. Then for the follow up, the teacher can give feedback. It helps both the teachers’ and the students to save time and other resources such as pen and papers. It also minimizes the teacher’s workload and for students, it helps in solving urgent issues or problems through call or video conference.

Despite of having so many benefits of using ICT as communicative tool, there are still some drawbacks of it. Some of them are, students playing games instead of communication, chatting with friends on unnecessary things, downloading unwanted videos and wasting parent’s money. This happens many times in school, at home and there needs to be done something about it. We all know that data charges are very high and if students misuse ICT application then parents are going to the victim at the end. 

However, if we make a proper use of it, we can always be one step ahead of those who don’t. There are two types of communication tools, asynchronous tool where people are not required to be logged in at the same time. Example; questions posted on VLE forum, we can take our time to read and answer whenever we want. The other one is synchronous where people need to be online at the same time. Example; video conference, it needs use to be online and the question needs prompt answering.

Informative Tool

ICT as an informative tool

The ICT (information and community technology) itself stands for information. Here I am going to talk about how we integrate ICT in our classroom as an informative tool. There are many informative tools which makes it difficult for students to choose one and because of which we can see youth all over the social media. Some of the ICT based information source are television, radio and the very popular one which is internet. These applications provide vast repositories of information/content to learners’ activity in the form of graphic, sound, text, audio and video.

So, if I talk about how we use ICT as an informative too in our lesson/classroom, it provides an information for both the teacher and the student. For teachers, it gives new ideas on how to go about the lesson and how to make the lesson more interactive. When it comes to students, it provides information in the beginning or during or after the activity. After getting the information, its important that the student analyze, synthesize and manipulate the information instead of copying everything from the source. If we copy everything from the source then it is an act of plagiarism and we won’t be getting new ideas or knowledge. Therefore, it’s important that we construct our own meaning.

If we use these informative tools very wisely then there are many positive points, such as we can learn to integrate our idea with the relevant idea from the source. After getting the relevant ideas, we need to analyze the information to make it more into our context. When we search information online, we are learning new skills and it also improves our critical thinking skills while analyzing the information. Finally, when we sort out information then we are also evaluating resources according to their validity and reliability.



So, unless we don’t miss use it there are unlimited advantages of using ICT as an informative tool. For example, for those visual learner’s ICT provides information in a graphic form, for auditory learner’s, it provides information in a recorded audio form. For kinetics learner, ICT provides videos on different activities to being carried out and they can learn accordingly. Therefore, if used properly ICT can provide us with numerous information which can help us to increase our knowledge.