ICT as communicative tool

My understanding on ICT as a communicative tool.

In the above picture, we can see a tiny line connecting every small things, and it depicts on how ICT connects our lives and how it helps in communication in every corner of the world. ICT is not only used as a informative tool, it can be used for different purposes. Now lets see how ICT is used as a communicative tool. 

ICT is used as a communicative tool which enhance easy communication between tutors and learners, learners to learners and learners to community. To me, I consider ICT as a light in the darkness which lightens the life of people. In olden days, it takes several days just to reach the message, “how are you” to other person, but now we no longer need to walk to the other side of the school ground to ask our colleague a quick question, we can simply message them and get response almost immediately with the help of ICT. Cell phones (text messages and voicemail), E-mail, Instant messaging, Electronic newsletters (e-newsletters), Class and school web pages, and Social networks are some of the communicative tools used every day.

Fig: examples of communicative tools.

We have learned two types of communication. Synchronous or real time communication and asynchronous communication which both helps in communication.  As we all know the situation, we are in nowadays and above-mentioned tools are the main source that facilitate our learning.  Our learning and communication take place through email, Wechat, vle forum, google meet, zoom, video conferencing, messaging and messenger between tutor to learners, learners to learners and learners to tutors. Every passerby was equipped with cell phones, a great means of communication. Simple text message can remind individual about their plan and schedules.

As a teacher, Effective communication is essential to create strong school-home partnership and to increase parental involvement in teaching and learning process. Teachers being skilled in the art of teaching isn’t enough rather they require knowledge and skills to communicate effectively. Therefore, teachers should strive to use a variety of effective strategies to make communication as informative and interactive as possible, incorporating new communication methods. As done by our ICT tutor Mr. Ugyen Wangchuk while teaching on how to create and work in google doc through google meet. Even though we were apart by long distances, we could able to learn very well on how to create and work in google doc and were able to have collaborative session, jointly between tutors and students. 
let watch a video by our tutor Mr. Ugyen Wangchuk in which he had use google meet to teach us on how to create and work in google doc. 

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