Day 2
What does it mean to teach in the
21st century?
Teaching
in 21st century was second session took place on 6th July,
2015 with brief comparison between conventional and contemporary world. The
presentation covered numerous features of modern technology for making learner
interesting. It also highlighted many of mundane technique still following in
21st century which becomes totally obsolete.
The students of 21st century
world demands high tech digital facilities. Effectively putting the modern
facilities into practice will only gain the attention on the learner of 21st
century otherwise monotonous classroom teaching will gradually thwart the
potential student to excel.
Incorporation of ICT will lure the
interest of modern student for making effort to learn more knowledge. Such
facilities have the capacities to provide opportunities to learn by themselves
at the same time enjoy while leaning in due course.
It is obvious that the teachers are
now not the main source of information, digital natives can get information from
different sources in this digital world. Modern teacher just need to provide tutelage
in finding right kind of information and its proper utilities. The kind of spoon
feeding information reveled less benefit to develop required skills and values.
Student of such kind just clinch to teacher every time for help and lack
developing independent.
Delivering content and facts to
children of this digital world would become mundane. Children aspire to learn
different things engage themselves meaningfully. So, teacher needs to provide
the opportunities with pragmatic ICT in order to mesmerize the interest of
learner for acquiring knowledge and experiences. However the usage of ICT
should be in line with the standard of learner and its virtual practicality.
Therefore ICT should be precise and fun loving otherwise it will exploit in
wrong ways.
The presentation also explained
some of the 21st century skills. They are as follows:
Ø Critical Thinking
Ø Media Literacy
Ø Communication
Ø Collaboration
Ø Information Literacy
Ø Creativity
The teachers teaching in the 21st Century
should guide and support our children to posses this skills. The curriculum needs to be designed in
such a way that it integrates the 21st Century skills into the
classroom learning. Though such integration of technology, it can really enhance
learning however at this juncture many of us are devoid of even basic ICT
facilities. Our current classroom teaching and
learning is still at the infancy stage yet we try our best to incorporate ICT to
promote as well as to woo the interest of learner.
Just to cite paradigm shift of
conventional to modern teaching. Teachers
are the role model and by their incessant action can make difference. In olden
days, just merely reading, writing and memorizing. These days, emphases are
given more on self learning methods which happens through innovation, practical
involvement, exploration, putting knowledge and skills into action for trial an
error basis. All this involves using ICT for easy and first accomplishment.
Even in our daily teaching at lower class, we include colorings using crayons
packs to give insight of developing to share or offer to other friends which is
one of the social skills needs to develop from early stage. So this is simple
paradigm shift from my perspective.
So, I always promote teamwork
whereby students learn skills as they interact with each other. We can also design
some lesson using ICT and take children to IT lab to enhance relevant skills.
ICT
for Education
When
explaining the ICT for education, we were asked to tell the meaning and
definition of ICT. As
such, it defines ICT as Information and Communication Technology which
compasses of technological tools and resources used to communicate, to create,
disseminate, store and manage information. Further we even looked into ICT
tools as follows:
Various
forms of Information are as below:
Ø Text
Ø Audio
Ø Video
Ø Graphics
Ø Flash (multimedia)
Ø Data-base (students)- is a
collection of related information.
Various
file format of Information
Ø Text Files- MS word document
Ø Data Files- ppt.
Ø Audio Files- mp3
Ø Video files- fly
After that we were introduced to teacher
sites. Teacher site helps to meet the needs of the teachers. It provides
resources, lesson plan and teaching ideas for teachers to refer for enrichment.
Beside the teacher site, the
sessions talked about using ICT in education, discussions on various forms and
format of Information compatible in line with different software requirements.
Every files requires compatible software to support it opening otherwise it
will not. All such information is available in teacher sites.
The session has given lots of ideas
on ICT in Education and now I would use it in my teaching though the facilities
are limited.
