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This document discusses using digital tools for teaching and learning. It provides examples of using mobile phones with QR codes, laptops with infographics, and iPads with online bulletin boards. QR codes allow quick access to information by scanning codes with phone cameras. Infographics are visual representations that simplify complex topics. Online bulletin boards like Padlet allow creative and collaborative posting in an engaging digital format. The document emphasizes that appropriate use of digital tools depends on how teachers employ them to engage learners.

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This document discusses using digital tools for teaching and learning. It provides examples of using mobile phones with QR codes, laptops with infographics, and iPads with online bulletin boards. QR codes allow quick access to information by scanning codes with phone cameras. Infographics are visual representations that simplify complex topics. Online bulletin boards like Padlet allow creative and collaborative posting in an engaging digital format. The document emphasizes that appropriate use of digital tools depends on how teachers employ them to engage learners.

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LESSON 2: Select and Use ICT Tools for Teaching and Learning

Lesson Outcomes:
1. Selected and use an appropriate digital tools in teaching.
2. Provided alternative ways in incorporating the digita tool in a lesson.

Introduction:

The current systems employ technologies by integrating ICT tools and


applications in educations and in in instruction. ICT stand for Information and
Communications Technology. This refers to various tools and devices or gadgets
use in communicating, disseminating, creating, storing and managing information.
It is important that learners understand how to use this tools in helping them
learn.

A great part of learning is working on information and using it create


something that can be useful and edifying for humanity. Since the intension of
education is to make learner to become useful and productive citizens, the use of
ICT tools can provide a lot possibilities on how learners can do something with
what they know. Teachers can now therefore employ ICT tools in their ways of
engaging learners by communicating, disseminating, and managing information.
This direction of integrating ICT tools will reveal the usefulness of employing ICT
tools in a wider range of the teaching and learning process.

“Technology will never replace teachers, but technology in the hand of


great teachers is transformational.”
= George Couros =

It is not necessarily the precense of advance technology or the use of ICT tools
that can ensure the success in engaging learners, but it still remains that the
effective use of ICT tools depend on how teacher will use them. There is a variety
of ICT tools from which to choose. When employed appropriately, the potentials
of their uses can have bearing on the lesson and the learners engagement in the
process of learning. In instruction the ICT tools can be use in the presentations of
the lesson, demonstrating a point or presenting a concept. There are tools that
can be use in providing practice or provide the chance to apply the skills taught.
Even when working us a team or group, tools can be employed to facilitate the
accomplishment of the task during the class or even after beyond the face to face
session.

A. Using Mobile Phone and the QR Code

Since ICT integration allow ease of processing of information, here’s an


example of how we can read information at a quicker speed and in an interesting
manner.
Familiriarize yourself with a QR Code. It is a code that was created by
Japanese Corporation Denso-Wave in 1994. Effectively and efficiently connecting
the physical world with the electronic world. QR stands for “Quick Response”. It
allows the readers to decode the informations at a high rate of speed. This is
popular in japan and it is by companies as they attached their QR Code in their
products. It is usually gives a URL linking you a to a website or immediately
provides ssalient information about the product.

You can easily read QR Code through a QR Code scanner:


Here’s all you need to do:

1. Have a mobile phone with camera.


2. Using the mobile phone with download from Playstore or Appstore the QR
Code reader or scanner application. Choose an appropriate QR Code reader for
your operating system whether IOS or android. Once installed in your gadgets,
you can use it to read the codes.
3. Focuss your camera on the QR Code. Click it in the message will be revealed to
you.

How to make a QR Code

Step 1: Be online
Step 2: Search for a QR Code generator and ensure that you read the information
about the application. This is important to ensure your safety in the internet.
There are tons of QR Code generators out there, but a few of the most popular
includes kaywa, GOQR. me, Visualead, and QR Stuff. There are many FREE
application online and therefore you can take this chance to use them.
Step 3: Once you have identified your free online QR code generator, you can now
encode the text or the information that you want.
Step 4: Run it and save it as a jpeg file. Now, you have successfully created your
own code which you can download.
Step 5: Test the QR Code using your QR code reader or scanner.

B. Using Laptop and the infographics

There is apparent deluge of information around and access to these is


made easier through the internet. You are face with one major question on how
to best interpret it all and put it into one cohesive information that is quick and
clear to read.
In the teaching and the learning context, you may be face with a
challenging topic given a short amount of time. How can you capture and deliver
that information simply and effectively while making it engage and informative as
well? Infographics are an immediate answer to this situation. The infographic is
another interesting tools to use in instruction.

As a group study the infographic and agree on a definition of the tools.


An infographic is a visual representation or an image such as a diagram,
chart or pictures representing information or data. It is eye-catching and makes
use of a clear out, attractive colors and hues, and caricatures that provide a
cohesive pesentations of the information.

If it is use to market products in the increasing visual world, then


infographic can also be employed in marketing information and ideas in the
teaching and learning process.

One tool that can be used in creating infographic is canva. It has infographic
template for education. You can try out the free design elements and produce
one just like a professional infographic designer. You can start exploring this site
and familiarize yourself with its features. As a gentle reminder, please take time
to read the instructions and navigates around the features to get optimal use of it.
There are many ways for which infographics camn be used.
USING INFOGRAPHICS:

1. TO PRESENT SURVEY DATA


Presenting statistical data such as from surveys can be overwhelming,
Infographics can be highly useful. Data are much easier to decode. They can be
made easier and quicker to understand if they are presented in an.
infographics
2. TO SIMPLY A COMPLEX CONCEPT
Simplyfying a complex idea is the core purpose of using an infographics.
This is very effective educational tool as a way of summarizing key points of
providing an overview of a lesson.

3. TO EXPLAIN HOW SOMETHING FUNCTIONS


Using infographics, you can show the intricacy of how something complex
works. It can reveal the mechanics behind intricate objects, concepts.

4. TO COMPARE
Presenting information by highlighting similarities and differences through
a visual parallel in an infographic can turn out more effective than sometimes
expressing it in words. It is easier to draw comparisons with the same information
healthy organized.
Assess the given infographic of a superhero batman- from the time it was
conceived in 1939 to 2013.

5. TO PRESENT INTERESTING FACTS


When information or facts are presented all in words, the use of
infographics can bring life. If done well, infographic can transform from the
information into visual image that can attract and engage readers.

If there is a written text, the information may not stand out compared to
when it is presented in this format. Information written in snippets becomes
understandable and more appealing to the eye.
How will you make your own Infographics?
You need the following:

1. You need to be online.


2. Using the PC, laptop or mobile phone, search for Canva , Vismen or Venngage
among others.
3. Create sign ip an account if you still do not have one in order to design your
own infographics.
4. Procedure :
Step 1: Choose the most suitable template for your use from the library.
Step 2: You may use images from their file or upload your own pictures.
Step 3: Make a cohesive layout containing correct and essential information.
Step 4: You can choose a background and font styles.
Step 5: You may change the color of boxes and the text to suit your style and
add stunning filters to add flair.
Step 6: Save the image of the infographics.
Step 7: Share the infographic you have created.

C. IPAD/PADLET and the Online Bulletin Board


Creativity and collaboration are fun! A dull and boring bulletin board can be
made interesting when done online. Post when the with theme backgrounds,
stylish fonts and varied colors become attractive to the learners. An online
bulletin board is a way of presenting ideas with a twist and interest with no cost
at all.
Here’s how:

Ste,p 1: Search for https://padlet.com/


Step 2: Sign up or log-in using any of your social media account.
Step 3: If you want to make your own, click MAKE A PADLET.

a. You can choose start with a Blank or Pick a Template.


b. Start making posts by clicking the + sign.
c. Make your posts as creative as you can by clicking Modify and selecting
your choice of color, font, theme etc.
d. You can now share your Padlet or online bulletin board to your friends.
Click Share and allow others to have access to it or you can share through
the social media account where others can view it.

Step 4: If you want to join someones bulletin board, click JOIN A TABLET.
a. Enter in the dialogue box the URL of the padlet you want to join.
b. Start posting on your friends/classmate’s padlet by clicking the + sign.

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