sound file

This ICT tool considers the musical/audio learning style, appealing to those students who learn by listening to music or audio to learn the information. This ICT could be implemented as a good cognitive tool within the learning environment by students reflecting on what they have heard, these tools do not have to be music, rather a vast amount of information could be possessed in a small audio file that they may listen to in class or at home to enrich their learning on the topic. Students could be asked to take notes or highlight the main points and discuss this in small groups.

Graphic organiser/mind map

This form of ICT supports both linguistic and spatial learners, appealing to multiple intelligences. This ICT could be useful as a cognitive tool because it starts with a central idea that the students have to think about themselves and put their own personal ideas on the topic down. It calls on deeper learning and self evaluation while also recalling information previously viewed on the computer.

( to view the mind map better, just click on the image)

Online game

This ICT tool would relate to the visual learning style. This tool could be implemented as a good ICT tool as it helps with information recall. Students learn how to recall which picture is under which box and helps them with remembering information.

link for embedding audio

http://beta-templatetesting.blogspot.com/2006/12/to-include-audio-clip-in-your-posts.html

Images of Cu Chi tunnels in Vietnam

This ICT supports the learning style of visual, it shows relevant pictures in relation to the Vietnam war and shows actual pictures of the Cu Chi tunnels. It shows exactly what it would have been like for the Vietcong, a group the students would have been learning about.

This ICT could be implemented as a good cognitive tool within the learning environment by getting them to think about what it would be like to actually fight in these conditions, this tool allows student to self evaluate and think deeply about how they might have felt fighting in these conditions, it provides a real life example for them to look at.

Image of Vietnam War

video

This video supports the visual learning style as well as audio/musical due to the visual and audio elements contained in the video.This could be implemented as a cognitive tool because the teacher could ask students to reflect on what they are seeing and hearing in the video and relate it back to the topic they are studying.