Use of ICT in Learning and Teaching

  Chapter 33: Exploring the Wonder of Google Gemini Date/Time: 22nd April 2025 - Tuesday, 1:04 am This is yet another interesting post on the wonders of Google Gemini based on my recent online training sessions with educators from all across the country - Pakistan. In a 2 - 3 hour session online the participants had a great learning opportunity to explore the immense potential of Gemini in education. It was awe inspiring to see participants creating innovative content using Gemini.  The session was created in Google Sites with lesson checks, feedback forms and attendance forms all created in Google Sites. Participants had view only access to the Google site. They were added as collaborators in Google docs for collaboration activities. The session started with gauging participants' prior knowledge about Gemini. Some had used it and for most of the participants it was a new resource. Participants knew that it can be used for searching information and creating content. They knew ...

Introducing Computational Thinking in Classrooms Date: 26th May 2019/Sunday/12:18 PM           27th May 2019/Monday/1:55 PM This blog post is inspired from my dive into my recent course i.e Computational Thinking for Every Educator Course offered by the ISTE International Society of Technology Education. It had a lot of insight to offer about Computational Thinking, its four key components i.e Decomposition, Pattern Recognition, Abstraction and Algorithms, its practical applications in classrooms, designing lesson plans and activities incorporating Computational Thinking in your classrooms. What amazed me was that its completely different to Computer Science, as educators we often confuse the two terms, though they are completely different from each other . Lets dive in and figure out how. So let's begin with our understanding of what is Computer Science ? Computer Science as per definitions explored onlin1 (1) its the study of information (data) and...

AI Artificial Intelligence and US Date:16th Feb 2019 Saturday -18:17 PM Long time but I was literally excited to write this blog post. This is inspired by my recent dive into a course on Artificial intelligence by ISTE International Standards of Technology Education.  The post will give you an insight into AI and types of AI (Assistive and Agentive), use of AI in daily life applications, its deep impact and the potential for schools etc. Though I have had an encounter with AI during my MS IT program some 10 years back but it never occurred the field would grow to this extent in just 10 years and have a profound effect on our future lives. What I remember from my course is the research I did about developing a traffic control system in Peshawar based on fuzzy logic and swarm intelligence, that aids in smooth running of the traffic and avoids traffic congestion on roads. The traffic model was designed using Matlab. It basically meant giving computer enough intelligence to ...