ICT as Communicative Tool

                                                             ICT as Communicative Tool

Communicative tools are systems that allow easy communication between teachers and students or between students outside the physical barrier classroom. (Chen, D., Hsu, JJF, and Hung, D. 2000) It includes e-mail, electronic bulletin boards, chat, teleconference and electronic whiteboard. Synchronous communicative tools such as chat or video conference enable real-time communication while using the tools of communicative asynchronous (eg e-mail and electronic whiteboard) is a system in which exchange of messages between people are not 'live' but somehow delayed.

It can also be defined as the process of exchanging information online. Creating Facebook pages and the use of cell phones for text messaging and talking to people using the gadgets. Personal blogs and wikis to share information throughout the world. Another example could be the Wechat which is very much popular in the countries like Bhutan and China especially to exchange information for commercial as well as for education and for other purposes. 

As an assignment or activity to promote the use of ICT as communicative tools, we were introduced to blog. Individual students designed and created a blog on which we are supposed to share our learning and its reflection which is helpful for our learning and to keep track of what we understood.