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=== Subject based free and open educational applications ===

=== Subject based free and open educational applications ===

The Free and Open Source Software community has developed hundreds of educational applications, which teachers can use to teach their subjects. These tools complement and supplement the traditional teaching methods that teachers use, such as lecture, chalk and talk, group discussions, projects etc. These tools have a few potential advantages:

The Free and Open Source Software community has developed hundreds of educational applications, which teachers can use to teach their subjects. These tools complement and supplement the traditional teaching methods that teachers use, such as lecture, chalk and talk, group discussions, projects etc. These tools have a few potential advantages:

# Many of them are interactive and allow for the learner to provide inputs and get feedback/responses and create resources / digital artefacts. This can support a constructivist approach. (One of [[wikipedia:Jean_Piaget|Piaget]]'s contemporaries, [[wikipedia:Seymour_Papert|Seymour Papert]] conceptualised this process as '[[wikipedia:Constructionism|Constructionism]]'

# Many of them are interactive and allow for the learner to provide inputs and get feedback/responses and create resources / digital artefacts. This can support a constructivist approach. One of [[wikipedia:Jean_Piaget|Piaget]]'s contemporaries, [[wikipedia:Seymour_Papert|Seymour Papert]] conceptualised this process as '[[wikipedia:Constructionism|Constructionism]]'

# Resources created by the learner can be assessed by the teacher for conceptual understanding

# Resources created by the learner can be assessed by the teacher for conceptual understanding

# Peer learning possibilities amongst learners can be supported by encouraging group learning (this can take advantage of the limited ICT resources that may be available in the school, due to which a 2:1 or even 3:1 learner:computer ratio may be required)

# Peer learning possibilities amongst learners can be supported by encouraging group learning (this can take advantage of the limited ICT resources that may be available in the school, due to which a 2:1 or even 3:1 learner:computer ratio may be required)

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