Thinking activity on Education and Technology

Teacher and students are make a good relation through by internet. They work best and gives there perfect performance in a any stage of education 

Video - 1: Sir Ken Robinson: Changing Paradigm                                             

The Country on earth at the moment is reforming public education. There are so many types reasons responsible. One of the reason is economic. Here I have one question increase into my mind that How do we educate our children to take their place in the economies of the 21st century. How do we do that? How do you do that?

Normally, Ken Robinson has given whinges about the educational system without presenting even one creative, usable solution to the problems that he reports -- problems that every one of us is acutely aware of. Anyone can criticize the system but few can fix it.

video Ken Robinson focused on changing education system, economic and role of culture. Moreover he added that only degree and certificate is not justify ability but there skill and representation  also more important. According to my point o view nowadays educational institute like a store & shop and teachers are playing role of shopkeeper but here question is that what happen about student ? They sometimes pay fees and getting certificate. In some cases  doesn't become part of education process. As a result students learning outcome got difference way.Here I agree with idea of ken Robinson because If used technology in education system so that my be learning outcome get better rather than traditional method so why education is not provided with help of technology ?

Video 2:Sugata Mitra: School in the cloud- SOlE

He talks about this above video that how technology and education are interwoven. Or he says that through the platform of the technology students know education very well and they also interested to do how the use of the technology even the slum students also can do without any help.

The beginning of this video, he talks ....
Where did the kind of learning we do in schools, where is come it from & you can look back far in the past, but if you look at the present school days, it is quite easy to figure-out where it came from.

It can from about 300 years ago & it came from the last and the biggest empire on this planet.

imaging trying to rum that show, trying to rum the entire planet- without computer, without telephones, the data, hand-writteen or the pieces of paper & travelling by ships. But he says that....the Victorian did it - what they did it was amazing. They created a global computer, made-up of people, it still with us. Today is called 'Bureaucratic Administrative Machine'.

In order to have that machine running you have that lots of people, they made another machine to produce those people- " The school".

Then he further talks about ...
  
   ' Schools are we know them are Obsolete '

Education system is not broken, it's wonderfully constructed, it just we don't need anymore, it's outdated.

Then he further giving the example of The clerk and the computers ... Which are in every office & the people who guide those computers to do that clerical jobs, those people don't need to write beautifully by hand, they don't need to multiplied numbers by their head, they need to be able to read.

 He talks about the slums & thought that how on the earth those kids are ever going to write Computer Programmes?

Here he wants to say that one day he left his computer among the slums and no one of them had understand the english language or how to operate computer. But after sometimes he arrived at that place and shocked to see that the slums were learned the computer and operate also.

    That's how technology helps the people or the students to learn anything which they want.

Further adds that ...In future we don't need to  go at a school at all, if you need to know something you can find out in 2 minutes on the mobile or computers.

 Then he talks about ...

SOLE :- Self Organizing Learning Environment. They are basically....

Broadband + Collaboration + Encouragement & admiration.

Through these all we can see that put together all and through students started learning themselves.

Video 4:Salman Khan: Let's use video to reinvent education

Salman Khan is the founder of the Khan Academy. He talked on the need to create alternative access to classroom content and how videos can be used to flip a classroom. While showing the power of interactive exercises, Salman argues for a change in the teaching paradigm: Using technology to "humanize" the classroom by flipping the traditional classroom script  given to students video lectures to watch at home and do "homework" in the classroom with the teacher as a facilitator, coach and mentor.

The Khan Academy and Salman Khan has also shared some 2,200 video courses and reaching more than a million learners monthly. In his lecture he given his vision for interactive, self-paced, evolved learning. get Abstract suggests his inspired, and inspiring, lecture to corporate learning specialists and other educators.


Normally students believe that Mathematics, science, geography....etc subject never learn through video or online courses but Khan academy prove that. Moreover flip learning also flexible for the students because of they learn through flip whenever or wherever. I think audio- visual also more helpful to understand heavy subject. I am learning basic grammar course by khan academy app. There are all courses freely available also so that no need to give excuse of premium.

Video 5: Marc Prensky: Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants

Technology and its development is ongoing process. From very ancient time we are using technology in one or another way. Like the era of change begins from the discovery of Telephones. We use to communicate with peoples who are living far away. Broadcasting introduce new varieties of language, like the language of news reading, weather report is different. We use various tools like internet, google, email, blogging, Facebook for communication. These all new technologies developing new style of English language. They have distinctive English style. Like each tools includes different numbers of characters, it differs from text messaging to twitters for various purposes.

Video 7: David Crystal: The Biggest Challange for English Language Teachers in the times of Internet

To pace with language change is a biggest challenge for teachers because language is changing so fast with the help of internet. The teachers are not familiar with the new talent because their generation is over. The other problem is Globalization. As if teacher only rely on one kind of English that is British English and taught accordingly to their students then, the students were not able to get other languages when they come in contact with the global market where people from different region speaking different language with different accent. There is vast majorities with varieties of accent and dialogues. There is need to improve listening comprehension and reading from the very beginning.

Video 8: David Crystal: Texting is 'Good' for English Language

Texting is a kind of language, and it is never bad to improve language through texting. But peoples are holding varies myths regarding texting and consider it bad the reasons are:-

i) Texting is done by kids only.
ii) Text messages with abbreviations entirely abbreviate these messages.
iii) Messaging is invented by the kids, its a modern thing.
iv) Kids don't know how to spell
v) There is generation of illiterate because kids don't know how to spell correctly

These all reasons are just reflecting the narrow mindedness of the people. These are not facts. It is not only kids, but mostly things are done by adults. More than half generation are using mobile and everyone is doing messaging. Literacy is important, and it needs more and more practice which technology provides. The more we text the better our literary skill improved.