Constructive Tool

Constructive Tool

Constructive tool is an ICT application which helps learner to learner, to modify information, to put our understanding into a visual form and finally help us construct our own knowledge.

Some of the examples of constructive tool are ‘concept map’, it is a program which helps users to brainstorm and visualize, ‘word, spread sheet and PowerPoint’ helps to organize, manipulate, record and present our work in different forms, and ‘desktop publishing’ is also a program which allows us to organize and present our work in an attractive format.

When we integrate ICT in our classroom, students can construct their own understanding with the help of the tools mentioned above. Learners are considered the maker of meaning and knowledge, it also says that integrating ICT can make learning more effective because learner are actively engaged in the use of ICT and when learner are actively engaged, they think critically and are able to create their own new ideas.

It not only helps students but also teachers in generating new ways of teaching through ICT. It constitutes a shift from teacher to learner centered pedagogy, which is a less work for teachers but a very good platform for students to use their own ideas. Use of ICT decreases learning through memorization and rote learning and focuses more on creative and hands on experience learning. Here learners can learn on their own through exploration and hands on practice even in absence of teacher and that’s called construction of knowledge which ICT can provide in various ways.

Example of simulation