What is an information tool?
Information tools are an application which provides vast amounts of information or content to learners activity.
Information tool doesn't really do anything rather they should be considered as huge, passive repositories of information.
Students
can use informative tools to support generating and testing hypothesis during a
problem-solving. These kinds of learning task all fall within ‘constructive’
the framework of teaching and learning. It provides an information/ reference/
content for the students in the beginning or during or after the activity.
Helps students to analyze, synthesize, manipulate and moreover construct their
own knowledge and meaning.
computers as an informative tool can provide a vast amount of information in various forms such as text, graphics, sound, images, and videos.
Advantages
of Informative Tools
- Helps
to enhance critical thinking.
- Informative
search skills are developed.
- Able
to learn the ways of evaluating resources on the internet.
- Learn
to analyze the information.
- Develop
the integrating skills with the relevant ideas.
Types
1. Text
Text is a character that is used to create letters, words, sentence, and paragraphs and it can be alphanumeric.
2. Graphics
The animation is a graphics that created the illusion of motion and graphics is a combination of text, image, sound, animation, and video.
3. Sound
it is cause by vibrating object and it act as background to the television.
it is cause by vibrating object and it act as background to the television.
4. Image
The image is a picture that presented on computer or on television and the image speaks a thousand words.
5. Video
Graphics that create illusion of motion.
ICT based information source are:
- Television
- Radio
- Internet
- Newspaper
- Books.
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