Introduction : CALL stands for Computer Assisted Language Learning. It is a term used by teachers and students to describe the use of computers as part of a language course.
- Hardisty & Windeatt
It is traditionally described as 'presenting, reinforcing and testing' particular language items. The learner is first presented with a rule and some examples, and then answers a series of questions which test her/his knowledge of the rule and the computer gives appropriate feedback, which may be stored for later inspection for the teacher. According to, Jones & Fortescue “the traditional description of CALL is unfortunate and they present the computer as flexible classroom aid, which can be used by teachers and learners, in and out of class, in a variety of ways and for a variety of purposes. However, work with the computer, as any other teaching aid, needs to be linked with ordinary classroom work and CALL lessons, like the other lessons need to be planned carefully.”
Here, I am sharing my thoughts related with very crucial topic on technology and teachers, can technology replace teachers? this is very trendy and very burning question now a days so here is my task activity given by hon. prof. Dilip Barad sir.
We are assign to read some article and then share our point of views regarding it, here is the article, about what is web 2.o,
Introduction: This document is intended as simple introduction to some free Web 2.0 type tools that can
be used by teachers who are interested in using technology in language teaching. The
tools presented here are just the tip of the iceberg and this should not be considered in
anyway conclusive or even the best of Web 2.0 tools. New tools are emerging all the
time, many not originally intended for education, but which can be put to good use by
students and teachers alike to extent opportunities, enhance learning potential and
develop the level of digital literacy that students will need for the 21st century.
What's Web 2.0?
the second stage of development of the internet, characterized especially by the change from static web pages to dynamic or user-generated content and the growth of social media.
Text based HTML with some images - The early web was largely driven by text
based content formatted with a simple programming language called HTML.
• Broadcast medium - Most web sites were owned or controlled by companies or
individuals with web skills. The content was added by web masters and the owner
of the website decided what would go on the website. This was a top down process, readers had no choice and little input into the content that went on the
site.
• Slow connection speeds - Most visitors were using slow dial up connections
which made downloading large files such as video or audio incredibly slow.
• Limited interactivity - If there was any interactivity on websites it was almost
completely text based and usually took the form of sending in an email, basic text
chat or posting a message on a text based bulletin board.
• Expensive software - Most creative work being done on computers was done
using expensive software which was complex to learn and had to be bought on
discs and installed on the hard drive.
• Dotcom bubble burst - Some largely misguided attempts by many companies to
make money over the internet using outdated business models end mostly in
failure.
When it comes to defining web 2.0. the term means such internet applications which allow sharing and collaboration opportunities to people and help them to express themselves online.
“Web 2.0 is the business revolution in the computer industry caused by the move to the internet as a platform, and any attempt to understand the rules for success on that new platform.”– Tim O’ Reilly.
Web 2.0 tools and their features:
Major features of Web 2.0 allow users to collectively classify and find dynamic information that flows two ways between site owner and site user by means of evaluation, comments, and reviews.
Site users can add content for others to see. Web 2.0 sites provide APIs to allow automated usage by an app or mashup like it provides location metadata that can be processed by a simple browser tool.
The web as a whole can be designed more intelligently around serving a user’s wants or needs. The developers and authors, singly or in collaboration, can use self-descriptions or similar techniques so that the information provided by the new context-aware program is relevant to the user.
Here, I am sharing my thoughts related with very crucial topic on technology and teachers, can technology replace teachers? this is very trendy and very burning question now a days so here is my task activity given by hon. prof. Dilip Barad sir.
We are assign to read some articles and then share our point of views regarding it, here is the articles, in this particular we are going to talk about the History of CALL /MALL mobile assisted language learning.
Until quite recently, computer-assisted language
learning (CALL) was a topic of relevance mostly to those with a special
interest in that area. Recently, though, computers have become so widespread in schools and homes and their uses have expanded so
dramatically that the majority of language teachers must now begin to think
about the implications of computers for language learning.
based on the then-dominant behaviorist theories of
learning. Programs of this phase entailed repetitive language drills and can be
referred to as "drill and practice" .Briefly
put, that rationale is as follows:
Repeated
exposure to the same material is beneficial or even essential to learning
A computer is
ideal for carrying out repeated drills, since the machine does not get
bored with presenting the same material and since it can provide immediate
non-judgmental feedback
A computer can
present such material on an individualized basis, allowing students to
proceed at their own pace and freeing up class time for other activities
Proponents
of this approach felt that the drill and practice programs of the previous
decade did not allow enough authentic communication to be of much value. One of the main advocates of this new approach was
John Underwood, who in 1984 proposed a series of "Premises for
'Communicative' CALL" According
to Underwood, communicative CALL:
focuses more on
using forms rather than on the forms themselves;
teaches grammar
implicitly rather than explicitly;
allows and
encourages students to generate original utterances rather than just
manipulate prefabricated language;
does not judge
and evaluate everything the students nor reward them with congratulatory
messages, lights, or bells;
avoids telling
students they are wrong and is flexible to a variety of student responses
Integrative approaches to CALL are based on two
important technological developments of the last decade - multimedia computers
and the Internet. Multimedia technology - exemplified today by the CD-ROM -
allows a variety of media (text, graphics, sound, animation, and video) to be
accessed on a single machine.
Hypermedia: That means that the multimedia resources are all
linked together and that learners can navigate their own path simply by pointing
and clicking a mouse .Hypermedia provides a number of advantages for
language learning.,
a more authentic learning environment is created,
since listening is combined with seeing, just like in the real world.
, skills are easily integrated, since the variety
of media make it natural to combine reading, writing, speaking and listening
, skills are easily integrated, since the variety
of media make it natural to combine reading, writing, speaking and listening
it facilitates a principle focus on the content,
without sacrificing a secondary focus on language form or learning strategies.
Multimedia technology as it currently exists thus
only partially contributes to integrative CALL. Using multimedia may involve an
integration of skills (e.g. listening with reading), but it too seldom involves
a more important type of integration - integrating meaningful and authentic communication
into all aspects of the language learning curriculum. Fortunately, though,
another technological breakthrough is helping make that possible - electronic
communication and the Internet.
Here, I am sharing my thoughts related with very crucial topic on technology and teachers, can technology replace teachers? this is very trendy and very burning question now a days so here is my task activity given by hon. prof. Dilip Barad sir.
We are assign to watch some videos and then share our point of views regarding it, here is the video,
David Crystal has talked about the changes in English language after arriving of certain technologies. He has given example of printing, Telephone, broadcasting, and internet. He says that every time with new technology, new language also introduced to suit that technology. He also talked about the text messages and twitter. He refers to the short length of messages and tweet and says that has bring the abbreviation of the words in use. People tend to think that this abbreviation will ruin the English language but he says that it is not so. These abbreviation of is only 10 percent in the text. Other 90 percent remain the standard English or any English which is used by people. So he basically throws the light on how with the arrival of new technology, people also think and write in new way. Technology bring the new aspect of language, or new way of writing language.
Language teaching is hardest job according to David Crystal. We all will agree on that. He also has given reasons that why it is the hardest job. First he says that because the language which teacher use and the language which students use are different. In the time of internet new words can be reach to the people in no time. Because of this the students will have different vocabulary then the teacher. Now in this time pf internet teacher should also need to keep pace with the changing world. Teachers have to knew the new words same as their students do. They have to keep all the information which is spreading widely around them. This is the challenge which language teacher has to face. Secondly he says that there is variety of English language and its accents. Teacher should teach students to listen the other accents which are not RP. Teacher should make their students ready for the differences. They can not say that this is the only correct pronunciation. This is another challenge or rather say duty of teacher to make their students accept the differences.
This is the era of pace, where everything happens faster. So teacher has to be up to date as quick as possible. There are so many languages and it's different accents makes things more complicated. But one should know that English is a global language, it can be different like An Indian, African, Australian, etc. Language moves faster. But internet has helped a lot in understanding. In addition he tells that teaching is the most difficult job to do.
Here he talks about the benefits which texting is giving to English language. He also talk about the myth of texting that kids use abbreviation in text and because of that they don’t know how to spell correct word. David here says that kids do abbreviation because for them it is cool to do it. Secondly he says that if they are shortening the word in first place they know the full word. Another myth about texting is that kids will use their abbreviation in other writings also and they will fail in the exams. Here David says that he has gone to school and ask to kids that will they use text abbreviation in exams and he says that kids are smarter these days, they say that it will make them look dumb. Then he talk about that how it is good for literacy. The person who can read and write is called literate and it will be perfect only by practice. Here David says that texting is making people literate because they are practicing reading and writing. By all these things he says that texting is good for English language.
Here, I am sharing my thoughts related with very crucial topic on technology and teachers, can technology replace teachers? this is very trendy and very burning question now a days so here is my task activity given by hon. prof. Dilip Barad sir.
We are assign to watch some videos and then share our point of views regarding it, here is the video,
This video is about The Changing Paradigm Of Education Changing Education Paradigms is a narrative from Sir Ken Robinson that provides an inspirational insight and overview of the current worldwide education structure, the effects that it is having on our school kids and society, and an invitation to consider what it would take to shift the current industrial concept of schooling to a more sustainable one.
Robinson argues that we need our children and students to make sense of their world, a world very different from the one we experienced. And, if we do want our students to make sense of their world, we need to create opportunities for them to think at higher levels, to think outside the box. He gives the following example of such divergent thinking: Question: “How many uses can you think of for a paper clip?” Answer: “Well, could the paper clip be 200 foot tall and be made of foam rubber?” The range of technology that today’s children have adopted and have adapted to has created a new environment that they actively engage in for social stimulation, as well as an environment that has become second nature for them.
Does School Kill Creativity?
Sir Ken Robinson, is a profound creativity expert who challenges the current education system with new ‘think outside of the ordinary’ methods of learning. He strongly believes that our cookie cutter mass production school system kills creativity, and it’s time to restructure it, so that it doesn’t just serve some people, but everyone. He makes an excellent case about the education system and how it should be built around creativity as opposed to building robots. This video is a voice over from his Ted talks speech with entertaining and highly engaging animation from RSA Animate. A brilliant video that puts 2 masterpieces together, a must see! Share your thoughts with us please, we’d love to hear what you digested and felt about this theory!
Robinson adds:
This particular intellectual model of the mind is what we’ve come to think of as academic ability, and it is deep in the gene pool of education.
My thoughts are that reasoning is very important to teach, but that there are multiple types of reasoning, and multiple knowledge sets one can absorb (beyond the classics) that become a set of tools for refining one’s reasoning.
"My wish is to help design the future of learning by supporting children all over the world to tap into their innate sense of wonder. Help me build the School in the Cloud, a learning lab in India, where children can embark on intellectual adventures by engaging and connecting with information and mentoring online. I also invite you, wherever you are, to create your own miniature child-driven learning environments and share your discoveries"
Modern schooling looks much like it did 300 years ago. The teacher in front of a class, the students in orderly desks — this system developed under the British Empire. But with the rise of the Internet, memorization of facts just isn't as important. For the jobs of the future, students need to learn how to think critically. This is the paradigm shift Sugata Mitra hopes to usher in with the School in the Cloud. In addition to opening physical learning labs of varying sizes, he's creating the "Granny Cloud," a global network of retired teachers who support kids through an online School in the Cloud platform. His goal: to share the Self-Organized Learning Environment (SOLE) method with parents, teachers, after-school programs and communities worldwide, and transform the way kids learn.
Mitra wants children around the globe, in addition to traditional schooling, to get a chance to participate in self-organized learning. He He carved a hole in a wall in a Delhi slum — about three feet high — and placed a computer in it.
Kids had gathered around within a matter of hours and asked Mirta questions about what this thing was. He responded “I don’t know,” and walked away. Mitra shared another one of his experiments – the “granny cloud,” a community of retired teachers who Skyped into learning centers and encouraged children with questions and assignments.
He calls this type of environment a SOLE — a self-organized learning environment. It’s based on a curriculum of questions that set curiosity free, varying forms of peer assessment and certification without examination.
“If we let the educational process be a self-organizing organism, learning emerges,” says Mitra. “It’s not about making learning happen, it’s about letting education happen.”
Soon the kids were surfing the internet – and teaching each other how to do it more effectively.
Salman Khan talks about how and why he created the remarkable Khan Academy, a carefully structured series of educational videos offering complete curricula in math and, now, other subjects. He shows the power of interactive exercises, and calls for teachers to consider flipping the traditional classroom script -- give students video lectures to watch at home, and do "homework" in the classroom with the teacher available to help
Let me confession that, such questions are usually emerge from the strong force of existentialism. As humans are more developed and civilized by using their thinking capacity and the potential of creating something new and so, endowed them as authoritative and on power position as being creator they manually shuffles With this such existential angst.
“Anything, anything would be better than this agony of mind, this creeping pain that gnaws and fumbles and caresses one and never hurts quite enough.”
Overwhelming of sometimes will defiantly leads the new generation in to a more straightforward way of integrating technology along with new huge challenging directions, so far it would be easier to tackle this challenge peacefully and innovatively on the other hand to run away from it and be in a state of illusion or to be continue the traditional mode of classroom environment which should preserved as a legacy for the next generation!!!!!
Disrespecting new technology, To be band and tend with the a certain stereotypical legacy/system...So I guess that's probably called replacement. We need replacement in thoughts too. For me replacement is not happening we are wanting it so..
“The individual's duty is to do what he wants to do, to think whatever he likes, to be accountable to no one but himself, to challenge every idea and every person.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, The Age of Reason
After reviewing this image I must say everything has its own pros and cons indeed, but if something to note as important then I say its always better to meet with failure, once we should try to learn at least for the sake of being avid learner or at any position, nothing wrong in just trying and getting failed ay any stage of learning the technology.
This is my key points :
The teachers can not do the marketing of students academic work of student as technology can do as preserving many social/academic accounts and work.
Technology can not understand the emotional state and/condition of students, and can not perform as supportive system.
Technology is kind of regular practice and a very intelligent attentive assist of us, but the role of teachers is to show path and ways to make allow the students to became an influencer of technology.
Teacher's personal experiences is a very good motivation for students which technology can't share anyhow.
This video of Head Of English Department Prof. Dilip Barad clearly shows the path, ways to allow technology to influence , you can explore yourself , growing along with this Era Of Technology where your fingers must be fast and your internet speed should be more faster than your ideas..
In this video I found two advertainments had shown about the superfast child learners of technology ,
Self-learning, true freedom, its a bit early or a kind of visionary advertisement so this is what todays child themselves.
When we are talking about replacement of teachers through technology i think this is a more of falsified thought, Just think innovatively and Consider technology as your best handy partner which helps you each and every time. Don't just compare and calculate the pros and cons of each other, Technology is man made , creation with the purpose of having intelligent and attentive assistant anytime, anywhere.
Let this visionary plans to go success, this kind of advertainment gives an intentions of making life more easier and advance. advertisements are more creative and have very good network to reach common people...Technology creates the hope and gives the possibilities and justification about better education for those students who're not able to get proper education by situating themselves in remotely located rural areas of any country. Technology is made for justice, if we use it in significant way it is made for betterment. This kind of ads shows the fast reaching, fast marketing, with out any prejudice.
“Our responsibility is much greater than we might have supposed, because it involves all mankind.”
Last video: In the last video is about real life incident of one boy named Sanjay who revolutionary come against to corruption regarding land and various skims running under GVT guidance , which is in way hard to understand and tackle such things as benign less educated, but he accepted the challenge and made a huge revolutionary remark with the help of technology, the way technology gives the reality check to everyone.
My perspective
Now I don't think any replacement is required because Technology is itself knocking the door of knowledge with the specified and signified facilities on are fingertips. Using mobile phones , laptop any electronic media connected with Internet, itself proving the space for new generation, that now the new generation is adapting the specifications to each....they can manage the class and also make separate time for learn, integrate and use technology which is must now..
In which way everything is going.....?
Is Technology replacing the teachers? no/yes...
Technology interwoven part of human life nowadays I'm very surprise to see such people are still don't just think to make this facilities in more better or more broader way rather than creating the mess on social media by proving and claiming the hardships of technology, I think this is what the greater way of escapism, it is very surprising to see such teachers are keeps on making complain about that technology now take their place...is it so?
On the other hand we can say that perhaps many teachers and students may face problems actually, but the only thing which we can do is to find a solution and try to work more hard on it so we can contribute in the process of better learning, apart from making it an issue of debate.
What should be understood...?
Phycology, of people . Make people mentally strong and conceptually rich so that they won't feel uneasy to accept the new things specially in technology. Of course technology is now overpowering the humans, teachers etc., I thought the most dangerous flow of ego and Hostility playing a role in the notions of accepting the reality and to be with reality and trends. For that i think we need more corona breaks and corona lockdowns so people become used to with technology.
Value of Teacher always stand on first priority because technology is in a way a periphery of the education system , but one more thing is which teachers can't do as technology can do it more in better way and this is what Marketing of students, on the other hand Technology can not understand the phycology and basic tendencies of students. no one replace anyone everything, everyone has its own stands and own capability to doing , just be sure and just match with the flow. Be hungry for knowledge in whatever form, in whatever way it comes to you. accept and assume everything on a large and innovative perspective, because your perspectives creates a vision and vision is are future....
