E-learning or online learning is becoming increasingly popular and with various unprecedented events taking place in our lives, this does not only open opportunities for schools to ensure that students have access to curriculum materials whilst in the classroom but also allows them to ensure students outside the classroom such as at home or even in hospitals can learn.
Information and Communications Technology (ICT) can impact student learning when teachers are digitally literate and understand how to integrate it into curriculum.
When teachers are digitally literate and trained to use ICT, these approaches can lead to higher order thinking skills, provide creative and individualized options for students to express their understandings, and leave students better-prepared, to deal with ongoing technological change in society and the workplace
ICT is a broader term for Information Technology (IT), which refers to all technologies that helps in teaching learning processes.
In the Institute it enhance teaching learning process by playing video, PPTs, Internet, Animations, various apps which help in teaching.
Some of the tools which can be used in ICT are:
Animoto: It is used to create animations, Presentations using Video clips, audio and texts.
Avagadro: It is molecule editor, designer for chemistry and bioinformatics.
Bhuvan: It is an Indian earth observatory.
Circuitlabs: It helps in designing electric circuits
Easelly: It is an online tool used to create Infographics
Geogebra: It is a mathematical tool for geometry, algebra etc
Gliffy: It is a tool to create diagrams, flowcharts etc
Google Earth: It is Google LLCs geographical information tool
Kalzium: It is used to learn periodic system of elements
Moodle: It is a tool for personalized learning
Natural Reader: It is a text to speech converter software
pHET: It is a tool for interactive, research based physical phenomenon
Tabula: It is a data mining tool
YouTube: It is a video sharing website
Zoom: It is online meeting platform.
