EDT201-ICT in teaching and learning

It's interesting to consider these concepts of communicative, informative, and co-construction tools. As a student teacher, it's been greatly enlightening to consider how we've utilized these technologies. Considering WhatsApp, it's not simply an application for messaging, is it? That video call with my classmates, surrounded by our phones, trying to craft an explanation of a tricky idea – that's the picture that truly freezes a moment of collective learning. It wasn't so much discovering the answer; it was talking through it, listening to others' ideas, and having it confirmed. To this day, I value how much those informal discussions helped to build our knowledge and our bond as prospective teachers. It's simple to use, simple to access, and it's where the majority of our actual working together happened. And, there's our university VLE. It's slightly more structured, like our academic portal, I think. Scrolling through the lecture materials...

 What is Co-constructive tool? A Co-constructive tool is a computer tool that allows you to build connected and complete things (like text, images, or designs) and typically allows more than one individual to collaborate on them at the same time in a shared virtual space. It is all about creating things that are flowing and connected, and perhaps with collaboration. Lesson planning as a  group, using Google docs when everyone was at their own place.  Google docs allows us to have conversion and chat there itself and as the same time we can type our work side by side at the same time Google Docs as a Co-Constructive Tool: How it has been helping in  teaching and learning As a future teacher, I've also found Google Docs to be quite helpful when working with others. At first, it was clear that it helped plan lessons with mates more effectively ( We did group lesson planning on google docs). We could add our ideas and edit simultaneously, meaning lesson plans were co-wri...