Technology in education

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

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