Use of ICT in Learning and Teaching

Using Flippity in the Classroom Date:27th March 2022/Sunday Welcome to my new blog post exploring Flippity. This blog post will share features ,  examples of Flippity and how this tool can be used by teachers in the classroom to  create interesting, interactive, meaningful learning experiences. Let's begin by exploring  what Flippity is. Flippity is an online tool , a series of web apps that can be used to create  interactive learning activities. Flippity turns data on a google Sheet into an online quiz show,  flash cards, memory games, word searches etc. This is a free tool, you do not need to create a login , just click on the demo to explore the activity and then click on the  instruction word to follow instructions to edit the template and create their own activity. Why Flippity? It is easy to use the tool. It is easy to integrate the tool with G SUITE of  education.  There are already built in templates that teachers and even s...

Why Kids need to learn Scratch - Part 2 Date: 02/10/2018/Tuesday This blogpost is simply inspired from the work kids are doing in Scratch at Ranaa Child Welfare Foundation. The blogpost will share some of the amazing programs kids have been able to make in Scratch through coding with an insight into why kids need to learn #Scratch. Why kids like Scratch? A number of reasons.  Firstly, It has a very user friendly and ease to use interface. Kids can drag in sprites easily from library, change background, add sound from library , even draw own sprites. They can increase and decrease the size of  sprites using the grow and shrink button. Secondly   it's color coded, kids know blue colored code is for motion, purple code represents sound, brown code represents events, green represents various operators and so on. They just have to drag and drop the code in the script area. Third they have learnt how to look for step wise tutorials, learn independently about ho...

Exploring Scratch - Whys and Hows? Date: 26/07/18 -Thursday This blog post is simply inspired from my recent dive into Scratch . I have never been fond of programming and have always found it extremely boring and complicated. It was my recent experience of working in Scratch that helped change the initial thoughts. This blog post explores the whys and hows of introducing Scratch in schools, in  academy's , at home or in any other formal/informal settings.  Scratch is a programming language , developed by the Life Long Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab. It is designed for kids aged between 8 - 16 years but anyone can use it. A colorful and easy to use interface, easy accessibility, ease of sharing in an online community, trial and error opportunity, interactivity , availability of help tutorials and much more has made it a favorite of people of all ages. It is used in more than 150 countries and is available in 40 languages. My first program in Scratch was t...