ICT as Informative tool

After reading about ICT as informative tool, I realized that most of us use the internet as source of information. In this 21st century world, the main plate form for information is ICT. Even students and teachers retrieve information using ICT  for learning and teaching respectively. We can now get information of any kind from internet, radio, television and from many more technologies but internet as informative tool is used in large scale in the form of websites, blogs and social media.
Teachers are able to get information for any concept they want to teach from internet easily and in various forms. ICT as informative tool is very important and relevant tools that adheres teachers to provide learning classroom very effective and conducive.
And students, they can retrieve any information on the content they are learning from internet easily and in vast.

One of the advantages of using ICT as informative tool is that while students are browsing information on internet, they learn to evaluate resources on internet and enhance their critical thinking.
In our class, our tutor assigned us a task on the topic "Is Hitler a gay?"
I looked up in internet for all the information about Hitler's sexuality in the forms of texts and videos. And I wrote about Hitler's sexuality after critically analyzing the documents that I read.

 This is the link to the presentation on Hitler.


https://vle.pce.edu.bt/mod/assign/view.php?id=57679

In a situation like this year, where the world is suffering a great pandemic, ICT is playing a huge role in providing information for students where learning takes place at home not requiring to physically be present at classroom. They can access information from ICT informative tools for information from wherever they are.

I feel ICT provides required information in great way and ICT indeed is a informative tool.

How do we use ICT as tool for teaching and learning?

ICT tools contribute to high quality lessons since they have potential to increase students motivation, connect students to many information sources, support active in-class and out-class learning environments, and let instructors to allocate more time for facilitation.

There are around five ICT tools for teaching and learning;

1. Informative tool
2. Communication tool
3. Constructive tool
4. Co-constructive tool
5. Situating tool