Video Blog Task

Task given by Dr. Dilip Barad.  

# Video: 1

Ken Robinson highly criticized the public education system In the first video. Public education was reformed on the base of two ideas, that are Economic and cultural. First purpose of public education is to make students economically better. Second aim is to transfer great heritage of culture. Thus, students can recognize their cultural identity. Current education system was formed in ancient time, so it will not be useful to the students in future. It has brought chaos in the lives of most of the people. Only few people are benefited from this system. Our present education system runs on the model of factory. Ringing bells, classification of classrooms etc. where students are not allowed to enter in other classes, even though they have the mental capacity far ahead than his class. Students should be given liberty to educate themselves from any school, class or university. Online courses give that scope to students; they can enroll in any class from any university. They can learn from various universities at the same time. “Divergent Thinking” is the most essential capacity of creativity. We can say that divergent thinking is the mother of creativity. According to Ken Robinson public education system kills the divergent thinking. Limited scope is provided to collaboration in traditional schooling. Digital schooling will satisfy all these needs and requirements, which is most essential for students’ progress. The end result of our pubic schooling is like below image, 

      

# Video: 2, 3

Sugata Mitra starts his talk by exploring the idea of “New school”. He provides the history of present day schooling. Our present education system comes from British Empire. Victorians produced students who can write, read and good at arithmetic. So they can be beneficial to their work. He compares school with machine in this way he makes the satire on Education system. Our traditional education system is unable to give jobs to the students in future. Sugata Mitra experimented one unique thing with the poor children of Delhi, which he calls “ Hole in the Wall” in 1999. He put computer for children who were completely unaware about this machine. But surprisingly they did self-learning and also started learning English in order to run computer. Self-learning is most essential part of learning, which enables learners to do novel thing. They taught one another. Children of 21^st century become habituated with mobile and computers, but when they go to school they have to deal with books. So it sounds boring according to them. Neuroscience provided evidence that the Reptilian part of brain shuts everything if he confronts threats. Exam and test  all act as threats, which kills the creativity. Then he took the help of Grandmother of England to teach the children of India. He calls it “Granny in the cloud”. He gaves the term “SOLE” that is self organized learning environment. Teacher just have to set environment of learning then he has to play the role of observer. Knowledge can be acquired only through self-learning. In which Broadband, collaboration and admiration play a vital role. His wish is to build “ School in the Cloud”. Where students can learn and also teach one another. Definitely time will come when tradition school will replace by virtual school. 

Most of the schools suffer from the inadequacy of teachers and sometimes teacher may not dedicated to job because of several reasons. But computer will work with the complete dedication wherever it is. If teacher put his children with only questions and materials then they are able to learn by themselves. Collaboration and group work is key point in this process. Student alone can not work out for longer period of time, he may get bore and he lives the thing. But in group activity they teach one another.  Generally Adult people have the wrong perception about using mobile phone by children and youngsters. They feel that they are chatting all the time. At that time it is very difficult to explain them that our all the materials come through mobile only. Because this the age of mobile and laptop. Our examination lasted for past thousands years. It doesn’t change. Many time students are talking with each other that it would be blessing for us if there is no any exam at the end of the year. He has done research on this topic in various countries and he collected interesting data and based on that he wants to build Schools in the cloud.

#Video 4:

Salman Khan one Indian young man founded “Khan Academy” for education. It is constructed on the idea of flipped learning. Initially he made video for his cousin to help him in sorting out his quarries. He posted that video on youtube  and slowly and steadily he received feedback from not only his cousins but also from other students. So he started posting videos on youtube on various subjects so students can access that from anywhere. He gave advantages of flipped classroom. With the help of this model of learning students can do self-evaluation. They can learn as their own pace.  They can watch video twice and thrice and also pause it whenever they want in between. They will come with the preparation in the classroom, so class time can be given to discussion. It enhances humanity values in the classroom. In tradition classroom most of the time teacher remains busy in delivering the lecture so he may not be able to give time to the students. But in flipped classroom teacher sits near the students and acts as facilitator. Flipped learning develops collaboration and peer learning.  Students can learn from their fellow classmates. ‘Khan Academy” is doing good job for integration of technology in the classroom.   

# Video: 5

Our students have changed radically. Today’s students are no longer the people our educational system was designed to teach. 21^st century has the rapid change and development  in the field of technology. Those children who born in this century they are known as “Digital Natives”. Those who born in 20^th century they are known as “Digital immigrants”.   Lives of digital natives are surrounded by computers, video games, digital music players, video cams, cell phones, and all the other toys and tools of the digital age.  They are different from their predecessor not only in clothes and test of food but also in language and technology. Technology has became the integral part of their lives. If the digital immigrants want to teach digital native then he has to adapt the new change of era. Most of the time digital immigrants are complaining about the students that they are not paying attention in the class, perhaps they choose not to give attention. Because it does not sustain their attention. Digital immigrants are of the opinion that there should not be fun in the classroom, but digital natives think that there should be fun, discussion, interaction in the class. Digital immigrants have to bring change in two things that are (1) Methodology and (2) Content.  They have to adapt new methodology to teach, in which they have to include computers, projectors, videos, internet, discussion, interaction etc. The second thing is that they have to change the content. There are two types of content (1) Legacy content and (2) future content. Legacy content includes LSRW skills, arithmetic, geography etc. Future content involves technology. Digital immigrants are speaking the language which is completely out dated; they have to acquire new language. If digital immigrants want survive themselves in digital world then they should change accordingly.

# Video: 6, 7, 8 

David Crystal, Linguistic is addressing young generation by giving the history of Internet, facebook, twitter, blog, printing, press and blog. Digital natives are using new language in their text messages and chatting, it is the new phase of English language. He is of the opinion that “Text messages are good for English language”.  Many thinkers are of the opinion that technology has distorted the pure form of English language. But according to David it is not so. Text messages are never full abbreviations. It contains only 10% of message. Our present examination system is very much conservative about Standard English and it will accept only correct English. But our students are very much intelligent, they will never use text language in exam because they know it very well that it will decrease his marks. Internet has made the world one little village. Earlier one new invented word took long time to reach to the people, but now it can be popular within one day with the use of technology. Initially there was only one Standard English that British English. But today we find a wide variety of English such as American English, Indian English, South African English, Nigerian English etc. So there is no any kind of “Correct English” in this world. Indian people are habituated in using English. Language is the most complex thing in the world which includes so many components within itself.  They use it as most frequent tool for conversation. Today it is very easy for teacher to teach any language, you just have to type the word and Google will provide you end number of information.