ICT as a communicative tools

My understanding on ICT as a communicative tool

ICT is used as a tool for communication, which provide an opportunity for the teachers and learners to interact without having to meet face to face. Communicative tools is an application which enable easy communication between the teachers and the students. It consists of software and hardware tools to make communication faster, easier and more reliable. We are using communication tools such as emails, messengers, WeChat, zoom, Facebook, computer, video and etc. inorder to spread knowledge and information. In our country all the teachers and students are using communicative tools to share their knowledge and information. It was increased because of the out break of global pandemic covid-19. I feel more comfortable using WeChat, Gmail and Virtual Learning  Environment (VLE) as a means of teaching and learning. 

Two types of communicative tools:

1) Synchronous

It is a real time communication between two people. It includes messaging, video conferencing, telephone call and email etc. It is mainly used for instructional activities that require higher degree of interaction. We are using this type of communicative tool to help in solving urgent problems and issues. This type of communicative tools is difficult to use as we cannot make quick comments and because of many discussion it lose focus. 

2) Asynchronous

This type of communication happens at different time and at different place. Here learners are free to complete the task at their own pace. This communicative tools are appropriate for the activities that require more time in thinking before responding. It includes e-mail, vle discussion, WeChat, blog, and etc.