Informative Tool

What is informative tool?

Answer

It refers to the application which provides vast repositories of information or content to learners.

Information tools can comprise vast amounts of information in various formats such as text, graphs, sound, image and video.

Why do we integrate informative tools in a classroom?

Motivate students to investigate, engage in critical thinking, conduct research, and discover how to incorporate pertinent concepts and facts.
Give students the opportunity to assess the data and develop their understanding of the ideas they are studying.
Encourage critical thinking in the student and help them hone their search techniques.
Give the student resources to evaluate with.

How do we integrate information tools in the classroom?

Teachers must provide information, ideas, reference, content for their students in the beginning, during or after the lesson.
Learner will be enable to analyze, synthesize and manipulate information provided
Students will construct their own knowledge and ideas.

There are five informative tools

Text based 2. Visual based, 3. Graphics, 4. Sound, 5. Image and video

Text concept

What is audio?

Audio is the third informative tool we learned. Audio can be described as any sound or noise in a range human ear is capable of hearing One of the most common audio type file format used is mp3. Listening to audio will not only help improve creativity and imagination but also improve listening skills. Moreover, it strengthens comprehension and improve vocabulary so, try incorporating audio or sound in the teaching and learning to see the the change in learning.

Benefits of the audio

Helps to build imagination and creativity in the listener.
Improves listening skills
Helps strengthen memory and comprehension
Build vocabularies.

Text-what is a text?

Text is a human-readable sequence of characters and the words they form that can be encoded into computer-readable formats such as ASCII

• Text can be refer to the characters that are used to create letters, words, sentence, and paragraphs

• We use text for most of the time as it not only boosts vocabularies but helps in reading, develop comprehension skills, and gather information, On the other hand, we communicate our thoughts and ideas through texts. Moreover, texts can be retained for long duration

text is one of the powerful tool that conveys a deeper meaning or significant messages. There are countless software or apps that uses text like social media apps, google suite, Microsoft word, etc

What is video?

Refers to recording, manipulating, displaying moving images, especially in a formal that can be presented on a television or channels.

It is the digital recording of moving visual media and images that run in computers and phones.

What is video based learning?

It is a learning experience facilitated through video.

We watch diverse content clips or recordings in the form of moving images using multimedia devices like television, phones and etc be it for educational or entertainment purposes, those are videos.

Video based learning examples

Animated videos explainers
Expert-led explainer video
Interactive videos

Benefits of video based learning

Some of the video based video in the classroom

Let students watch videos for the complex topics as it will further: Activate learners interest in learning Retain the information for a longer period of time Videos create multi sensory learning experiences with its ability to combine camera footage, animation, graphics, text, and audio. It makes content widely accessible

Improves learner retention
It enables microlearning

Animation

Animation is a process of giving the illusion of movement to drawings, models, or inanimate objects.

Animations are attractive which helps learners to understand the concept better.

Example, animation on water cycle using ppt slides.

It builds creativity in learners and improve skills and knowledge.

Animations can help visual learners learn in quicker way than other tools.

Graphic

It refer to the combination of the text, image sound animation, video etc Generally a graphic is an image or visual representation of an object Therefore, computer graphics are simply images displayed on a computer screen Graphics such as image, animations, videos supplement text information's Promote the visual aids that can better help you communicate your ideas.

Image

what are images?

• Refers to visual representation of information such as drawings pictures, graphs, logos, photographs, etc. • Generally we can see the image format such as jpeg, bmp, png, gif, etc

• Images are powerful visuals quickly transmit information to our brain.

• They trigger our emotions an also help us learn and remember

• Images can capture attention, evoke emotion and easily convey large amounts of information in a relatively short period of time.

Using text and image, design a learning activity for primary children with relevant learning materials (resources)

Class: II

Subject: science

Topic: Living things and non-living things

Activity: Identify the living things and nonliving things from the given picture and write it in the respective table given below.

Flower