Situating tool

As we discussed that situating tools is the application that helps to situate learners' in an environment to experience the context and happenings. Its the application that provides avenue for learners to experience and feels the real situation that is not possible in theory/text. Application such as simulations (flight, farming, surgery, environment, driving, History City, Sim City, play station), virtual reality and CD-ROM can be used as the situating tools to teach  the any concept. 

Let me cite few examples of situating tool and how we can use it in a lesson. If we are going to teach the concept of open and closed circuit, we can go to phet interaction website and choose the circuit simulation. This helps learners to situate in the environment and gives the real feelings of the open and closed circuit by manipulating the variables in this simulation. 

We can use google map to teach the concept of the location of any place, time, distance and area instead of reading from the text. It provides the 3D and 2D view of the any place that we want. Which really builds interest and curiosity to explore more. In the way it also makes class environment lively. There is other simulation like pH scale, so forth that you will find in phet interaction website. So, we can use those applications when a certain real-life experience is impossible to attain. 

Personally, i found out that simulation allows me to feel the real experience of the environment. By using it, i can comprehend the concept easily because i have a choice to manipulate the variables. Also, when we manipulate the variables, it helps to boost the creativity and visualization skills as we need to focus on the simulation.