Co-constructive tools

Co-constructive tools are applications that support the construction of knowledge through a shared understanding that is collaboratively consolidating the ideas. Students may also co-edit the same document from their homes. Some examples of the tools which we can use to co-construct our knowledge are; Google docs, electronic whiteboard, blogs and wikis, discussion forum on portals. Google docs, blogs and Moddle apps are free so, we can use it while other tools like electronic whiteboard is not free so we don’t have access to it.

It is important to teach our students using computer tool because they can co-edit, meaning they can edit each other’s work, communicate to share ideas which in turn promote collaborative learning. They are involved in series of cognitive process like explanation, problem finding and solving. In here learning becomes active and intentional as students participate to edit, refine and construct their work.

                         

We even learned about the advantages of using Google docs and it’s features like; edit, comment and view which gives the user full right to change the setting. The users can give right to the viewers to edit if he/she is competent enough, selects who comments and who can’t and even select who can just view their work on Google docs. Any type of changes made while working on Google docs gets automatically saved. In order to access Google docs we can either check our mail or browse googledocs.com online and login our Gmail account which will directly take us to Google docs

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