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In this blog we will see what are the key important videos about education and technology. A brief summary or points are also mentioned about what speakers want to say in the video.
Here is the key question to answer in this blog.
Q. Summarize thoughts expressed by the speakers in the videos. What is the main message that you take into consideration in context of Technology in Education (in general) and ELT (in particular)?
Click here to be redirected to Dr. Dilip Barad's blog post from where this blog is written as a response.
Sugata Mitra, Marc Prenskey, Sir Ken Robinson, Salman Khan and David Crystal are very notable names among the folks who really think about teaching and learning. Some of them are computer programmers and some of them are educationalists. But they all think about one thing in common that is education system and learning process. Let's watch their videos and get each of their ideas.
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| Sri Ken Robinson |
Video 1. Sir Ken Robinson: Changing Education Paradigm
Key Points: Sir Ken Robinson talks about the education reformation happening in several countries. He says that there are two reason for the need of reforming education. Economic and Cultural. Children who are now being educated need to establish themselves in the economy of the country. Children will have to have knowledge of cultural identities and interaction with communities in future. This can happen only when we look at how do we pass on our cultural genes to the succeeding generation. The idea of following stereotype system in education seems very irrelevant to kids nowadays.
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| Sugata Mitra |
Video 2. Sugata Mitra: School in the cloud- SOLE
Key Points:
Video 3. Sugata Mitra: Future of Learning
Key Points: The future of learning will be self paced, self controlled and self directed. Self learning will be the prime focus of ICT tools. Sugata Mitra has done remarkable experiment called "Hole in the Wall" and made his firm argument that learning can happen without teachers also. According to him admiration leads children to learn more. Elders just have to encourage the children to make them learn more.
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| Salman Khan |
Video 4. Salman Khan: Let's use video to reinvent education
Key Points: Video is the most interactive audio visual medium of lerning. Sal Khan explains how he made simple start up with Khan Academy. The video version of lectures are straightforward and playable and pause able at any time. Learners can watch a single video as many time required and learn near to 100%. Sal Khan initially made videos on YouTube to teach his cousins but now his videos on Maths, Science, Business learning and so on are widely watched throughout the world.
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| Marc Prenskey |
Video 5. Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants - Marc Prensky
Key Points: Marc Prensky points out two major terms: Digital Natives and Digial Immigrants. According to him the generation born before the arrival of TV, multimedia and internet are called digital immigrants. These digital immigrants have learnt many things later on in their lives either from their kids or students.
"Our students have changed radically. Today’s students are no longer the people our educational system was designed to teach." Prensky
Prensky also quotes in his paper that Digital Natives are the speakers of the language of digital tools. If we see this in a loose form, we speak many words related to digital world like, 'download', 'upload', 'browsing, 'print', 'link'. . . etc.
"What should we call these “new” students of today? Some refer to them as the N-[for
Net]-gen or D-[for digital]-gen. But the most useful designation I have found for them is
Digital Natives. Our students today are all “native speakers” of the digital language of
computers, video games and the Internet." Prensky
Those of us who were not born into the digital
world but have, at some later point in our lives, become fascinated by and adopted many or most aspects of the new technology are, and always will be compared to them, Digital
Immigrants. - Prensky
Digital Natives have different thinking pattern than that of the Digital Immigrants. Natives think with two or more ideas parallelly and they can do multitasking.
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| David Crystal |
For the videos of David Crystal's views about use of language and technology, please click on the title here - Technology and ELT - David Crystal's Views on English Language Teaching
On the whole. . .
If we take the core and general idea of these videos, then, the main recurrent voice comes from them is this. Education system needs several changes in terms of testing and evaluation, in terms of teaching pedagogy. ICT tools, Web 2.0 tools must be included in the classroom teaching. This makes learning more effective, engaging and more productive. Moreover, it increases the results and grades very significantly. The better learners will create better society and make better economy.
While English Language Teaching - ELT is concerned, ICT and Web 2.0 tools are necessary to enhance the English basic skills LSRW. Watching videos increases the practice of listening. . .
Further this particular ELT aspect is explored in detail in the blog given below. Click on the link.
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References:
Prensky, Marc. "Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants Part 1." On the Horizon,
vol. 9, no. 5, 2001, pp. 1-6.
Images are taken from:
Sir Ken Robinson By Sebastiaan ter Burg - Flickr: Sir Ken Robinson @ The Creative Company Conference, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=80694632
Sal Khan By Steve Jurvetson - https://www.flickr.com/photos/jurvetson/5512308575/, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=16204369
David Crystal By Eino81 - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=61362657
By Marc Prensky - https://picasaweb.google.com/113340748757089388393/MarcPrensky?authuser=0&feat=directlink#5626236613861061474, https://picasaweb.google.com/113340748757089388393/MarcPrensky#5639233610085103698, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=15721236
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