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