5. SITUATING TOOL. ⚒

Situating tool

Situating tool is an application that helps to situate learners’ in an environment to experience the context and happenings.

Examples:

ü  Simulations (flight, farming, surgery, environment, driving, HistoryCity, SimCity, play station)

ü  Virtual Reality (VR)

The importance of situating tools

ü  Situates user in the environment

ü  Comprehend & manipulate variables

ü  Communicate with other users login

ü  Foster creativity & visualization skills

ü  Integration into teaching learning

When a certain real-life experience is impossible or difficult to attain, situating tool is used.

Simulations are programs (associated with constructivism) that teach strategies and rules which are made to apply to real life situations:

•         computer presents simulations of real learning situations

•         makes learner to take decisions

•         shows the effect of the decisions

•         provides opportunities to interact with the real life situations without danger, expense or difficulty

•         solves simulated real life problems

•         manipulates the elements of the model as the computer provides feedback

•         invokes learners’ conceptual understanding & higher order thinking skills

 

We have done virtual knee surgery by clicking the given link below: https://www.silvergames.com/en/virtual-knee-surgery.

We have also discuss the following games which are of different subjects like

ü  FarmVille https://poki.com/en/g/game-of-farmers

ü  Restaurant city https://www.crazygames.com/game/yummy-    xmas-tree-cookies

ü  Tower of Hanoi https://www.mathsisfun.com/games/towerofhanoi.html

ü  https://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulations/category/physics

 

All of this are the simulation game where by it helps in dealing with real life situation, decision making, providing opportunity to interact with real life situation, solving real life problems and in enriching understanding and thinking.

If this tool was there during my high school days i would have fulfilled my ambition of becoming a doctor. Since I couldn’t achieve my dream I will help my students to become a doctor or what they are desired to be, by using this simulation tool meaningfully.