What
do you mean by communicative tool?
I
perceived it as a means of communicating and interacting through instrument
like e-mail, chat with teacher and friends on learning topic. The communication
can happen before, during and after the lesson. We can either share our
experiences on the concept, clarify doubts or can exchange our reflection and
understanding with teacher and friends.
To
boost the interest of students and keep their attention, teacher can use either
use synchronous or asynchronous communicative tool according to necessities in
learning. These are two types of communicative tool. The synchronous tools
enable real time communication. It is used when we require higher amount of
interaction and insistent problem solving. The chat and video conferencing can
be used to enhance learning constantly while asynchronous tool like pin up, blogging and virtue learning environment discussion forum can be exercise when students
require time in thinking before responding.
Examples of synchronous
Examples of Asynchronous
How
this two communicative tools help in learning?
Both
the communicative tools possess advantages and disadvantages by nature of its
design. Mutually it amplifies students to construct knowledge through networking
and involving in social interaction. It also provides the learners to develop
critical thinking especially while asynchronous tool as it does not need to
take communication simultaneously. Like for every advantage it also hold
disadvantages. This tool may sometime be ineffective to implement in classroom.
For
example, if we use synchronous tool, the learner may respond but it may not be
appropriate and authentic to valid. As it does not provide space as well as
time for students to think and evaluate their respond. While asynchronous may
create learners to lose interest in learning after waiting for respond by
friends to their questions and taking time to clarify their doubts.
For
that purpose, teacher needs to first assess its strength and use accordingly to
nature of learning.
HI,
ReplyDeleteyou had good reflection on the communicative tool with life examples but it could be so nice if you could snap and put images that we are using to communicate to give your evidences rather than copy directly from the google.
Hi Passang,
ReplyDeleteYou had written a very beautiful reflection on how communicative tools help in learning. After going through your reflection i could say that communicative tools really had benefits in our learning in everyday to fit in this digital world.