Use of ICT in Learning and Teaching

Exploring - Buncee Date: 10th Oct 2018/Wednesday This blogpost is inspired from my recent dive into Buncee - a super cool tool for content creation - from creating interactive and animated presentations to digital stories flyers, comic strips, animated cards, tutorials, newsletters and much much more. The blog post will give you a virtual walk through of the important features of this tool called Buncee,  with an insight of how and where could this tool be used effectively and meaningfully to engage learners/educators.  Lets begin by exploring why do we need to create presentations? Obviously to share information, share ideas, promote a product or launch a new initiative, create awareness, check understanding, to inspire and motivate people, to instruct or teach a topic, deliver a lecture, to engage the audience and so on. Have you ever thought of using presentations to cater to the differentiated needs of the learners in the classroom? Have you ever thought of crea...

Differentiated VS Personalized VS Individualized Learning Date: 23/09/2018 Sunday This blogpost is inspired from my twitter chat today organized by #edchatmena about individualized, personalized and differentiated learning.  It was so good to interact with a very experienced and knowledgeable group of educators who were able to share some amazing resources about the three different learning approaches. I did have some understanding about differentiated learning in classrooms, but the twitter chat helped build a much clearer understanding of the three approaches.  According to an article by Dale Basye differentiation is a type of learning where instruction is tailored to meet the needs of learners in class, the learning objectives remain the same, but teachers can use different resources, different strategies , providing students different paths to students to achieve their learning goals. There are different types of differentiation. Lets look at each in detail....

Exploring Mobile Technology In Education Date: 16 Sep 2018/Sunday This blog post is one of the most interesting blog post written in a long time because it deals with a very precious device called MOBILE that we hold tight in our hands 24/7 :). I am sure each one you out there would enjoy reading the blog.  We see mobile phones almost in every second person's hands, be it a 2 year old kid, a teacher, a parent, cook, cleaner etc Whats important is to educate everyone around about an effective use of this device. It has much more to offer than just games and social media interaction.   This blog post will provide you an insight into a different dimension of mobile devices, you will get an opportunity to look into effective use of mobile devices in teaching and learning.   In the recent years there has been a huge increase in the number of educational apps and tools that can be easily downloaded and installed on our mobile devices making learning and ...