Reflection- ICT as a constructive tool

Constructivist approach to teaching and learning believes that students need to construct their own understanding of a subject through critical thinking and active engagement as independent learners. This provides students to learn in absence of teacher by using wide range of resources from the net.

ICT based constructive tools can help learners to manipulate information, visualize ones understanding, and construct one’s own knowledge.

Some examples of constructive ICT applications can be;

1.     Concept map; this allows the learner to brainstorm and visualize their understanding of relationship among a collection of concepts. There are plenty of applications that can help learners to connect ideas, organize information, and to incorporate new learning to their prior understanding of a subject. Some concept mapping apps are; MindMeister, Popplet, SimpleMind, and Inkflow Visual Notebook.

2.     Desktop publishing; these programs allows learners to organize and present their ideas in attractive format. These helps the learners to make an enhancement to their documents with an element of fun. Some applications include; Adobe Spark, Twixl, and PDFelement.

3.     Word, Spread Sheet and PowerPoint; these applications helps to organize, record, manipulate and present their ideas in an attractive in the form of memos, reports, letters, presentations and record routine information.