Professional tool: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 18:19, 28 August 2006

(In this context) we define a professional tool as a tool that is used in a work context and hat has been mainly developped for it.

In education, and in particular in the school system, that kind of software seems to be the most popular category of educational technologies.

There may be several interrelated explanations:
- Such tools are used in the real world and therefor did demonstrate their usefulness within given tasks.
- Such tools are used in the "real world", therefore augment authenticity and learner motivation
- Such tools are well suited to support project-oriented learning scenarios, i.e. support activity-based teaching
- Teachers know how to use them (e.g. they use them to prepare courses or demonstrations).

Internet publication tools like web-pages, CMSs and associated search technology

Reference managers, links managers, etc., in particular those who allow to share informations with others.

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 * Office tools (word processors, speadsheets, presentation tools)
+* Some [[writing tool]]s
 * Some [[cognitive tool]]s like [[concept map]]s and note-taking tools like the [[Scribe note-taking application]]
-* Internet publication tools like web-pages, [[CMS]]s
+* Internet publication tools like web-pages, [[CMS]]s and associated search technology
 * [[Reference manager]]s, [[links manager]]s, etc., in particular those who allow to share informations with others.