ICT As MindTool

"Every generation has his ways and his style" this is an old say I used to hear it from my old-age relatives; especially, when they compare their lifestyle with the current. In fact, the same applies for teaching style and methods. In my school, I talked to experienced teachers about what style they prefer in teaching and I found out that they almost prefer the old traditional way of teaching. This cannot fit with the new generations who grown up with computer, internet, mobile, and play station. It's been obvious that such a way of teaching is going to decrease student's desires of learning. Therefore, teachers are encouraged to use Mind-tools like ICT tools to engage student's critical thinking and higher desire of learning.

Technologies have been used traditionally in schools to ‘teach’ students, much the same as teachers ‘teach’ students (tell students what they know and assess their recall and comprehension of what they were told). I do not believe that students learn from computers or teachers—which has been a traditional assumption of most schooling. Rather, students learn from thinking in meaningful ways. Thinking is engaged by activities, which can be fostered by computers or teachers. Thinking is engaged by representing what students know in the forms required by different MindTools.  MindTools, therefore, are computer applications that require students to think in meaningful ways in order to use the application to represent what they know.