Thinking Activity: Education and Technology

Thinking activity on education and technology

Sir Ken Robinson :- Changing paradigm

      Sir Kenneth Robinson is a British author speaker and international advisor on education in the arts to government, non-profits, education . 

This video talk about some innovative ideas related to technology and education system. The title of ' The Changing paradigm' by ken Robinson.

   In this video Robinson talked about moment is reforming public education. There are two main reasons behind it like 

- Economic

- Culture

This is two major concern to change education system. How to educate their children to take their place in the economies of the 21st century. The second reason is the culture. how we educate our students so that they can have a sense of cultural identity. He teach us the education in new way through the technology. Education system change through the new tools of technology. 

Ken Robinson talked about the Divergent thinking and collaboration learning.

Sugato Mitra :- future of learning

   Sugata Mitra is a Professor of Educational Technology at the School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences at Newcastle University England. 

Sugato Mitra give idea about the school in ' cloud'.

He started “ The hall in The wall” project. How children learn to operate computer without any teacher and not required any instructions under this project. They are able to operate the computer and learn from self experience. It’s a very unique kind of ideas about education. Sugato Mitra was successful in this project. He do research in rural areas.

According to sugato Mitra three RS will be obsolete in education 

R – Rithmatic

R- Riting

R- Reading

 He  emphasizes his idea of SOLE.

SOLE :-.  Self Organized Learning Environments. 

Broadband + collaboration + encouragement & administration.

 Salman khan :- video for better education

He was founder of Khan Academy speaks on self placed lectures at home by using video.

His Idea about Digital way if learning. It is also against the traditional methods of teaching. Like Book vs Video , Novel vs film

But it is a very interesting way of learning. Students are excited to learn in a different way. It is encouraging flint learning. Students are able to learn at home also and any time any where. They are enjoying in that type of learning because video resources give the option to pause and repeat any time. So video are also useful in education it is converted entertainment to education system.

Marc Prensky :-  Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants.

Audio track by Marc prensky on digital natives and digital immigrants. In this video he talks about Digital natives and Digital immigrants. The term digital native describes a person who has grown up in the digital age. 

Digital Immigrants : old generation

  Digital Immigrants they do single task, sequential thinking, text and have a limited resources.

Digital Natives : new generation , present time.

   Digital Natives they are multi tasking, able to parallel thinking, used multimedia and multi resources.

David Crystal: The Effect of New Technologies on English

Workshop on Quality and Authenticity of Web Resources

 Workshop on Quality and Authenticity of Web Resources


     In the   Department of English workshop on Quality and authenticity of web resources  organized  by Dilip Barad . He introduced how can categorised web sources.

     It is a time called digital era. People are changing tool for education and grasping knowledge. People are moving books to internet. Internet provide all information about anything. But when it comes to academic research work. How far the authenticity of the resources is certitude.
      Barad sir teach us how these works are required Quality and awareness about the authenticity of web sources.


Turnitin :-


Turnitin is an American commercial, Internet-based plagiarism detection service which is a subsidiary of Advance.
   There are so many sites which is used by students for learning. Like enots, Britannica, sparknotes, gradesaver all site are widely used for academic purposes. Turnitin provide a rubric pentameters and quality of web resources. This is a helpful to check the authenticity level of the web site.

Here are some websites evaluated by me on parameters measured by rubric.

Goodreads is a literature study guide for users. It provides the information about a related searches topic. Content is good there are many writer who write that book review for that web site like Joyce Meghan Wang. They give their understanding and point of view about book or topic we can not say it's a blindly true information.

Shmoop is a provided information in a simple language. We are easily get ideas what the main consent. But it is a not give deep information . It used for academic purposes. We get the basic theme and understanding through this site. But we can not describe as a good web resources to a Idea sources and research.

Thinking activity : A Grain of Wheat

Thinking Activity: In the Context of A Grain of Wheat. How is the Native represented by colonizers? Do a character study of Friday in Robinson Crusoe.This activity given by Heena mam

    Ngugi wa thiongo  write a novel ' A Grain of Wheat'. He wrote on poor people situation or concerns. In this novel he write on his village Kenya. We see the conflict between white and black people in this novel. Also in Robinson Crusoe . Western countries are considered as a powerful and civilizers. They ruled on black people.
     

           The Robinson Crusoe novel written by Daniel Dafoe. He shows the two important character in this novel. And highlight the master slave relationship. He shows the defence between colonizer and colonized people. Crusoe follow belong to Cristian religion and he also force Friday to follow that.  Crusoe given a Cristian name   for this slave Friday without asking him. Crusoe believe like he is a superior because of his language and white men. He says Friday to call me a Master. And  he called to Friday as a my man but do not give Friday to respect. Friday follow the instructions. Crusoe teach only some regular words . We see the master slave relationship in Robinson Crusoe novel. Crusoe is a educated civilized person and Friday is a slave. Friday follow the instructions of his master.

  This relationship we also  occurred  in a grain of wheat. In that time Britain was ruled on Kenyan. English language is used by English people. Natii people are not understand the other languages. So that thing is common in both novel.