Constructive Tool

ICT as a constructive tool

1.What is a constructive tool?

It is applications that help the learner to manipulate information, visualize one’s understanding, and construct one’s own knowledge. Microsoft of word, power point and the spread sheet in the computer allows users to organize and present their ideas in attractive formats.

In the last two decades, research studies of information and communication technologies

(ICT) in education have shifted away from the analytic study of single learning and instructional

variables towards the whole configuration of events, activities, contents, and interpersonal processes taking place in the context that ICT is used.

Constructive tools are general-purpose tools that can be used for manipulating information, constructing one’s own knowledge or visualizing one understands. The term constructive’ stems from the fact that these tools enable students to produce a certain tangible

product for a given instructional purpose. For example, web authoring applications allow

students to create their own web pages and communicate their ideas to the world.

Construction tools such as Microsoft Word or Powerpoint has a strong impact in the educational environment and is widely used in most organizations in the form of memos, reports, letters, presentations, record routine information, giving businesses the most (McMahon, M. 1997.) In learning a second language, Microsoft Word manages to help students to make correct sentences and texts, as well as modern word processors, include spell checking and dictionaries and grammar checkers. Therefore, teachers can use the software to promote writing in the curriculum.

2. How we can integrate the constructive tool in teaching and learning?

In order to integrate the constructive tool in teaching and learning, teachers must encourage students to use constructive tools to work cooperatively and construct a shared understanding of new knowledge. There must be an interaction between the teacher and the students when we use ICT as a Constructive tool to construct one’s own knowledge through visualizing one’s understanding. Most importantly, learners must actively be engaged in the learning process and they must able to construct their own knowledge through their own understanding to make meaning. When students construct their own knowledge, they feel motivated and it helps them to think critically. Learners must get help from the teachers when they construct their own knowledge so that they become independent learners in the later part.