Situating Tool

Situating Tool

Situating tool is another tool which helps both the teacher and the student to learn with the help of integrating ICT in the class room. It provides an environment where the learners can experience the context and happenings. Examples of situating tool are simulation (flight, farming, surgery, environment, driving, History City, SimCity, play station), Virtual Reality (VR), CD-ROM.

 If I cite an example, the use of Google Map in the computer helped me as a learner to see the real 3D image of the places that I haven’t even visited in real. By sitting in a small room of Paro college of education, I could go and visit my village and also see my own house in a 3D form. This increase my interest to learn and it and I am sure the students will also be interested just like me.

Some of the importance of situating tools are, it helps in situating learner in the environment. It also makes it easier for the learner to comprehend and manipulate the variables. Situating tool is also a platform which allows the usher to communicate with another usher by login in to the server. While using situating tool, the learners can foster their creativity and visualize different skills.

Therefore, situating tool is a very important tool which helps the teacher as well as the learner to learn in a better way. Specially when the certain real-life experience is impossible or difficult to attain, here the situating tools are used. Simulations are part of situating tool because it gives the learner to attain a situation as if it’s a real one.

Example of situating tool