The modern technologies can play a very vital role in our day to day life. These technologies can also act as a situating tool. I can define situating in ICT to locate or situate places, measuring distance, and learning in a virtual environment.For me, even though I have an android gadget and applications that can help me to situate information and locate places, I rarely used it.
Let me share my understanding and some of the features that Google Maps provides.
- Measuring distance: I am in disbelief when my tutor said that we can measure the distance between two places. These for me was new learning. I always wanted to know the distance between Paro Dzong and Paro College where I take about 20 minutes to walk. I directly used my google account and checked in google maps. There I found, the distance between was 1.33km.
- Calculating time: here, to calculate the time we can easily find out the longitude of a place and direction, whether the place is east or west of Greenwich. Here, we can use the longitude and direction of the place to Greenwich and calculate time.
- Measuring area: I am also able to find the area of any land. Here, I can easily calculate the area of any place I want. As a test, I have measured the area of my college football pitch. I got the area 7315.05 square centimetre.
- Street view: This is the feature I liked the most about google map as we can view like as if we are at that place. It provides 3D images which makes it more realistic.
So, to my readers, I suggest you all try out google maps to the features in it. There are tons of things you can do with google map and makes our work easier.
Wow, I am really impressed with the features of google maps.
ReplyDeleteGoing through your reflection was worthwhile and I am sure that you are now confident with this feature. Hope you will integrate those in your classroom teaching and learning.
ReplyDeleteAs you have reflected, as the country is developing everyone has the mobile phones but we rarely use it in the educational context. we can use google features like map to teach our students about the world that we live it doing a hand-on experiment. As you have mentioned, we can use map to teach different subjects.
ReplyDeleteWorth reading your reflection and i am sure that you are now well aware of those features. As a digital world we need to use our phones in effective way. So i think your reflection will help them to use their phones in effective educational purposes.well done.
ReplyDeleteAstonishingly beautiful reflection that can help everyone in using ICT as situating tool.
ReplyDeleteThe graphics and content matches very well. I like your idea of using Google maps as a situating tool to teach your students about the direction.
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