Sunday, January 10, 2021

1. ELT-2 Videos Thinking Activity

Hello Readers....


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.

The School in the Cloud and Future of learning by Sugata Mitro :-

In this video at the very beginning Sugata Mitro asks one question, 

" What is going to be the future of learning ?"

He says that if we look at the past, where it come from ? then in present it is quite easy to figure out. We say, It came from about 300 years ago and it came from the biggest empire on this planet, " The British Empire." They ran the whole planet without the computers, without the telephones with data handwritten on pieces of paper and travelling by ships. 

This video is about Sugata Mitra, it was amazing in which we found some of the very interesting ideas about education and learning. At the starting point he was talking about where the school learning came from ? Of course that is from Victorian people. The education system has become a bureaucratic administrative machine. Because of the empire the Victorian wants a people who can read, write, good handwriting, multiplication in mind. But now a time empire is gone. But the system of education is the same. So Sugata Mitra had questioned the system. He also talks about self learning. He had done interesting research in the education process.

This machine is called, " The Schools." The people who are in the schools they must know three thing :

1. They must have good handwriting, because the data is handwritten. 

2. They must be able to read. 

3. They must be able to do multiplication. 

The British empire is gone. But the main question which Sugata Mitro ask is that,

" So, what are we doing with that design that produces these identical people and what are we going to do next?"

But now in the present time the schools are outdated. He says that clerks are the computers. Those people don't need to write beautifully and multiply numbers in their heads. They need to be able to read. But we must have to think that what will be the future and how today's schools are preparing them for that world. Sugata Mitro is sharing his experience which had happened in Delhi before a years ago. 

He was talking about the current education system, and also what should be the system of learning. How technology is helpful to the education system. According to him now is the time we should not need to follow the system that is going on in our education system. He came across two types of people : The Slums and other who knows everything how to runs computer programs and everything. They said Sugata Mitro about their children that, 

" You know my son, I think he's gifted. "

At that time he was shocked and decided to do something for the poor children. And then he started doing experiments to those poor children of remote area villages. He gave them computers and made them self learners. He got very satisfied results. Then he thought to do more for them. Sugata Mitro asks the question, 

" What it will be tomorrow ? "

Could it be that we don't need to go to school at all. If you wish to find out something, you can find out in two minutes. Then Sugata Mitro created one programme called, " SOLE " ( SELF LEARNING ORGANISATION LEARNING ENVIRONMENT ) Broadband, Collaboration and encouragement. At the end of the video Sugata Mitro says that, 


" My wish is that we design the future of learning. We don't want the spare part for a great human computers. Only we need to design future for learning. This is called, " The School in Cloud. " 
                                    --Sugata Mitro

Let's use video to reinvent education by Salman Khan :-

This  video is about  which way the idea provokes in the mind of Salman khan, to develop such a platform like Khan Academy.  In this video we get to Know the journey of the whole platform. How it started and all those things. We also come to know that is how this platform is different from the actual classroom. Salmanan is a founder of " Khan Academy. " We all know that Khan Academy is a non profit course which helps to students and teachers to work individually and collaboratively. It is known for it's collection of videos. It is the platform where students can find their own individual pace. Students can choose whatever and which subject they want to learn. Like Maths, Science, Science and technology, Geometric and many more other.




In this video Salman Khan is talking about his experience and how he started this course. We all know that one single step can help you to get great success. Salman Khan started to put the videos on YouTube. Slowly and steadily he got comments from visitors. Many of them were kids, students and teachers also. Then he came to know that it is helping teachers also. So, he started developing this programme. In this video he is saying very interesting thing is that,


" When those teachers are doing this experiment in classroom, there's the obvious benefit- the benefit that now their students can enjoy the videos in the way that my cousins did. They can pause, repeat at their own pace, at their own time. But the more interesting thing and this is the unintuitive thing when you talk about technology in the classroom by removing the one size - fits all lectures from the classroom and letting students have a self paced lectures at home and then they will go to classroom, letting them do work, having the teachers walk around, having the peers actually be able to interact with each other. These teachers have used technology to humanise the classroom."

It's something innovative and interesting.  There we come to know that all the hypotheses that Teachers and students have that are broken. Because in Khan academy we can see they taught beautifully each and every subject. They covered everything from basic arithmetic, all the way to vector calculus. He started from the YouTube videos. And he also talked about some of the comments that he got on YouTube. That is also amazing.  So the point is that learning through videos is helpful to students, because they watch videos anytime wherever they want. If they want to repeat they can repeat it. That is the benefit of learning from videos. 

Salman Khan also differentiates the learning outcome of the traditional learning and learning from Khan academy. This academy encourages students to master over the specific subjects. They also give mastery points. How consequently looking at the students' learning process. There is also a concept of peers Teaching to peers. The concept is like let's teach for mastery not for test scores. The most interesting thing which I like most is that now teachers can give their more time to students to sit around them and interact with them that what have they did and how many videos they have seen and where have they doubt. Students can learn in their own time. This is how Khan Academy course work. Student will get energy points and badges on their performance capacity and level. This is all about Khan Academy by Salman Khan which is discussed by him in this TED TALK video. 







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