Face book as a teaching tool

Face book can be used as a tool for education because face book teaching can strengthen communication between student themselves and between student to teacher.

I personally felt that using face book as an educational tool can help to increase student’s informal learning, in particular discussions of course content outside the classroom. Moreover, our personal connection with students will grow much more swiftly through face book teaching and learning. Beside this, many of the students use face book and has become safe and easy alternative.

Figure 1. Collaboratively Learning using Face book .

To share about my experience in using face book as a teaching tool, what I found during my teaching practice was that many students made personal call to me seeking help in connection to their studies . So I opted to use face book in order to help my students in clarifying their doubts regarding the concepts taught in the class. I decided to go ahead and accept student friend requests, and to be honest, it has had a far more advantages than disadvantages. Firstly, my personal connection with students grew much more quickly. They felt immediately more connected to me, and turn, opened up more even in my classroom resulting to a better learning progress.

Therefore, we as a teacher can make use of Face book as an ICT tool in order to scaffold our students whenever they are in need.

Simulation as Constructive tool

Simulation is yet another interesting strategy that fits well with the principles of students-centered and constructivist teaching and learning.
Though it was my first time experience creating simulation using PowerPoint, it was worth learning. Through this experience, I knew that one of the primary benefits of simulation is  that it allows the designers to determine the correctness and and the efficiency of a design before the system is actually constructed. Moreover, it also helps an individual to construct their knowledge through the collection of relevant information on the chosen topic.

Figure 1: Simulation created using PowerPoint.