Lesson 4 Using Open Ended Tools in Facilitating Learning
Lesson 4 Using Open Ended Tools in Facilitating Learning
Tools in Facilitating
Learning
Open-Ended Tools
• Tools that make learning more
meaningful, concrete, efficient and
encouraging
• This may be common or
conventional and are installed,
innovative and web-based
• Their characteristics are provocative
and stimulate divergent thinking
about a topic
An open-ended activity or situation does not have a
planned ending, so it may develop in several ways.
How can Open-ended tools improve teaching and learning?
1. It builds communication and critical thinking skills. Learners
cannot answer an open-ended question with just a yes or a no.
2. It allows learners to offer their own opinions, experiences and
ideas or to respond creatively.
3. It encourages imagination, creativity and problem-solving skills.
How can Open-ended tools improve teaching and learning?
4. It gives the students the flexibility to think actively and creatively
in solving a problem.
5. Allows sharing of their thinking, thus building discussion and
reasoning skills.
6. Encourage students to explore multiple perspectives, justify their
arguments, and reflect on their own thinking.
Uses of Open-ended Tools in Teaching and Learning
2. Facilitates learners’
productivity skills
(creating blogs,
digital stories or
videos relevant to the
topic).
5. Collaborates 7. Boosts
with other learner’s
educators and speaking and
students and writing abilities
share ideas
beyond a
conversation.
Creating an ICT-engaged Classroom
1. Using Word 2. Using slides 3. Using spreadsheets in
Applications in scaffolding presentations in introducing some lessons
student’s learning like in
doing learning plans, preparing visually and in mathematics and
assessment tools, audibly appealing science courses
templates and forms, presentation software
graphic organizers and
others. applications
Some Microsoft Word Alternatives (Investintech 2020)
• Drop Box Paper – a free online word processor offered by online
cloud storage provider.
• WPS Office 2016 Free – with the same familiar look and feel of
MS Office with one exception – it has a tabbed viewing window,
so you can open more than one document at a time.