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Today I'm writing about education and technology. How technology play role in education. What kind of role technology plays in education. How technology is bringing the school to the leaving room. Which type or system we have and also which type of atmosphere we have in class room and also in leaving room. Which is the best atmosphere for study.
In 21st century, Digital Literacy became necessary for everyone. As a result of it, it becomes inevitable to include technology in education system. After an enlightened discussion on the use of web tools in teaching / learning it becomes vital to know about the students views / understanding on integrating the technology in education.
Digital Immigrants and Digital Natives by Marc Prensky :-
When we talk in terms of future generations, only technology can provide better future. There are so many benefits of using technology in classrooms.
The video is about Digital Immigrants and Digital Natives by Marc Prensky in which how digital Immigrants and digital Natives are very different to each other is discussed. Marc Prensky says that Digital Natives are extra intellectual than Digital Immigrants. Use of technology in education increased the level of accuracy in educational materials to a higher standard. Uses of new technologies are expanding. New computer programs and mobile apps are all playing their role to solve daily life problems.
They all are well equipped with today's technology. They all know how to use Computers, Laptops and video games. They all are self learners. They don't need any teachers for help. Google and Internet are their GURU. On the other side Digital Immigrants are not born into the digital world but have at some later point in our lives become fascinated by and adopted many or most aspects of the new technology are and always will be compared to them with digital Natives. In every discipline technology is very useful thing in human life. Education cultivate us from the animal to human being, it is fundamental right of people to be a literate and also it is very useful for live better life. So, with the passage of the time education also need to upgrade from chalk and talk to smart class. Digital classroom is necessary for teaching and learning process, it is useful for both teacher as well as students. In traditional way of teaching, teacher was at center but now in this age student is at center. Teacher's work as facilitator because through the technology students come with every information and work themselves so teacher's work is to facilitate them. Students can learn anytime from anywhere through digital classroom. Teacher can teach all the subjects like Math, science, History, Language, Geography, etc through technology.
Technology stimulate learning interest in the students much better than traditional way of lectures. So, according to me technology is necessary in education for better future career of the students or we can say that technology means good facility hence students and teachers have good facility in education. Digital Immigrants learn like all immigrants some better than others to adopt to their environment they always retain to some degree, their accents that is their foot in the past. Marc Prensky gives few fundamentals to differentiate Digital Immigrants and Digital Natives. According to him.
1. MULTI BAGS
2. Parallel Thinkers
3. MULTI MEDIA
4. MULTI RESOURCES
♧ Digital Immigrants are :-
1. LIMITED RESOURCES
2. TEXT
3. SEQUENTIAL THINKING
4. SINGLE TASK
These all are the some of the basic characteristics given by Marc Prensky to Digital Immigrants and Digital Natives. Further more in this video he says that Digital Immigrants teachers in the schools say their students in the classroom to search perticular topic on Google but Digital Natives teachers directly send the URL to their students and ask tp do flipped learning. Here I would like to put one more point is that Digital Natives are intrested in developing digital library, on the other side digital Immigrants are working with text books as well as resources material both.
So, there are some basic differences which is given by Marc Prensky in this video. We can integrate technology in the classroom through various web tools like power point presentation, Blog task, Flipped learning and social media like Whatsapp and Facebook, in which Flipped learning is very interesting because it broke the traditional norms of teaching and learning in the classroom. Students can learn any time from any where through flipped learning. Teacher can engage the students without his or her presence.
The Changing Paradigm by Ken Robinson :-
In this video " Changing Paradigm " by Sir Ken Robinson is talking about the public education system. In the beginning of the video he says that,
" Every country on the earth, at the moment is reforming public education. There are two reasons for it,
{1} ECONOMIC :- Economic people are trying to work out how do we educate our children to take their place in the economics of the 21st century?
{2} CULTURAL :- How we can pass on the cultural genes of our communities while being a part of the process of globalization.
Teacher and technology both are significant in the process of teaching and learning. Technology is better for leaning in new style, it gives you information but don't guide like teacher. Technology do not teach you life lesson and not be a role model for you but teacher can teach these all aspects of life. Teacher teach you to connect the dots but technology can't. But the problem is that the current education system was designed and conceived and structured for a different age. It was conceived in their Intellectual culture of the enlightenment and in the economic circumstances of the Industrial revolution before the mid of the 19th century. There were no system of public education.
In the age of technology we have to integrate it in our education but teacher also much needed to guide. Many times student like me failed to understand some topic while reading in google and watching videos but my professor Dr. Dilip Barad can teach me with the help of various examples, hence teacher is very helpful to understand easily. Public education paid for from taxation compulsory to everybody and free at the point of delivery that was a revolutionary idea and many people objected to it. They said it's not possible for many street working class children to benefit from public education. They are incapable of learning to read and write.
We come to think of as academic ability and this is deep in the gene pool of public education of the really two types of the people :
1. Academic & non academic
2. Smart people & non smart people
The main point that is discussed in this video is Economic and cultural. If we think about education then ideally we believe that education is for humanity and also a way of darkness to the light. But that is only an ideal thinking, truly the education is for stable economical conditions. The result is that many brilliant people think they're not because they're are being judged against this perticular view of the mind. So, we have twin pillars 1. ECONOMIC & 2. INTELLECTUAL. According to Ken Robinson this model has caused chaos in many people's lives. This is called " Modern Epidemic " and it's as misplaced and it's as fictitious. This is the Plague ADHD.
Ken Robinson raised a question about How do we educate our children to take their place in the economics of the 21st century ?Another is how we can teach the cultural identity of people to the children. He also made a point that the current education system was designed and conceived for a different age. The idea of public education is based on two factors: Economic and Intellectual. He was also telling that this model has caused chaos. In which we come to know that students become like customers.
He was also talking about diverge thinking. It's an ability to creative thinking and creativity. There is not only a linear or convergent but a multiple answers possible. Education system makes a dumber generation. Our children are living in the most intensely stimulating period in the history of the earth. That is being besieged with information and porce. Their attention from every platform computers from iPhones from advertising hoardings from hundreds of television channels. If you travel east across the country people start losing interest in Oklahoma.
They can hardly think straight in Arkansas. Ken Robinson believes that we have a system of education that is modelled on the interest of industrialism and in the image of it. He also talks about " Divergent Thinking. " Here I would like to put GIF of some photos in which sir Ken Robinson draws the picture of Divergent thinking.
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