ICT in Teaching and Learning

By

Mazhar. K. LaliwalaAssistant Professor

Introduction:

Globalization and Technological change have created a new global economy which is “Powered by technology, fueled by information and driven by Knowledge”

Half-life of information continuous to shrink and access to information continuous to grow

Therefore Colleges/Universities must promote “ learning to learn” i.e. the acquisition of knowledge and skill that are needed for continuous learning over the lifetime.

“The illiterate of the 21st Century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn.” Futurist ,Alvin Toffler

ICT stand for Information and Communication Technology which include newer digital technology such as computer and Internet which are potential powerful tools for educational change and reform.

Why ICT???

• New and emerging learning technologies• Innovative learning• Location and time independent learning• Alternative modes of assessment and

feedback• Collaborate and communicate globally

Advantages:

• Expand access to education• Strengthen the education• Raise educational quality• Make teaching and learning engaging• Active process connected to real life

“The times they are a-changing”

Bob Dylan

• Prepare students for “21st Century Skills,”• Skills Needed in the Workplace of the Future

A Road Map For 21st Century Learninghttp://www.p21.org/route21/

The Future of Education…?OLD PARADIGM NEW PARADIGM

Faculty: Lecture Faculty: Project, inquiry based, ALM, etc

Faculty responsible for content, media & assessment

Faculty works as a part of instruction team

Faculty role: actor Faculty role=director

Student role=empty vessel Student role=knowledge creator

Semester/tri-semester/quarter Varying length of time for learning module

Set enrolment(e.g. once a year) Set enrolment(e.g. once every two week)

Degree based on credit hours Degree based on competence exam

Information transfer via classrooms/library

Information transfer anytime, anywhere

Graduate must be able to• Function in a global economy for job successes

in the 21st century.• Work effectively with the people of different

culture backgrounds.• Work as a team member.• Access, analyze, process and communicate

information.• Function creatively and innovatively.• Use ICT tools effectively• Engage in continuous , independent learning

“Pedagogy Empowered By Digital Technology”

•Complete Range of IDEAs•Free Education Recourses•Web Technology in Education•ICT as a tool for learning

The Future of education is Open……

“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious” Albert Einstein

http://www.openlearningworld.com/Your destination for Free Online

Courses, Free Online Education & Free Online Studies

Courses on Finance, Personality Development, Information Technology and lot more

http://www.open.ac.uk/openlearn/

http://alison.com/ Free Online Courses & Certification. ALISON offers free independent interactive multimedia training courses. Choose from our broad range of courses and start learning today!

http://www.learner.org/

http://open.umich.edu/Open.Michigan is a University of Michigan initiative that enables faculty, students, and others to share their educational resources and

research with the global learning community.

More than 2000 courses across all discipline from MIT at http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm

http://ocw.unu.edu/Courses_listing

Course on e-Governance

http://www.khake.com/page66.html

http://einztein.com/Connect your favorite courses to relevant learning resources. Exchange knowledge and information with other members whose

academic interests match yours. Join peers and professors in exploring the newest academic frontier: free online courses.

http://www.virtualprofessors.com/

Research

http://oli.web.cmu.edu/openlearning/forstudents/freecourses/erm

http://www.ocwconsortium.org/en/courses/browsesource

Some of best Elective and Foundation Courses

If students are not learning the way we teach, we should teach them the way they learn

http://teaching-with-technology.wikispaces.com/

Must visit this pagehttp://teaching-with-technology.wikispaces.com/

http://phet.colorado.edu/Incorporate ICT based activity in Syllabus

Blogs in Education

Blogging Tools

http://wordpress.com/ http://www.blogger.com/

http:/www./edublogs.org

Blogs as Education Tools

• Post Material and Resources• Online Discussion• Group Project• Reflect your teaching and learning experience

My Bloghttp://mazharlaliwala.wordpress.com/

• http://www.skype.com/intl/en/home• Skype is a software application that allows users to make voice calls over

the Internet. Calls to other users within the Skype service are free,

Record Audio

Audacity is sound recorder and editor suitable for creating audio clips and podcasts

http://audiocity.sourceforge.net/

• Record Audio, Upload and Share it in your bloghttp://soundcloud.com/

http://www.slideshare.net/ http://www.slideboom.com/

http://www.authorstream.com/

Answer questions; do math; instantly get facts, calculators, unit conversions, and real-time quantitative data and statistics; create plots and visualizations; and access vast scientific, technical, chemical, medical, health, business, financial, weather, geographic, dictionary, calendar, reference, and general knowledge—and much more.

http://www.wolframalpha.com/

http://freevideolectures.com/

Adopt free videos in Teaching and Learning

http://www.learnerstv.com/index.php

Do we know this Salman Khan???

http://www.khanacademy.org/

http://www.lucagalli.net/en/• QuizFaber allows to create multimedia quiz easily and rapidly as a hypertext document (an HTML

page) with an "engine" written in JavaScript and embedded in the HTML page. All these functionalities are managed in an automatic way, which means the user does not have to

know anything about HTML tags or Javascript language.

• This application, which runs under Windows, is a quiz editor. Using it, it is possible to create and manage many types of questions:

• · Questions with multiple choice, of which only an answer can be the right one.• · Questions with multiple answers, of which one or more options can be the right answer.• · True or false questions.• · Questions with open answer with a text box where one is allowed to write an answer freely.• · Gap filling exercises: a phrase with missing words in a text where some words have been

replaced by empty spaces.• · Matching words: there are two distinct groups of words places on two columns. The student

will have to correlate each word of the first group with one of the second.

http://www.lucagalli.net/en/• QuizFaber allows to create multimedia quiz easily and rapidly as a hypertext document (an HTML

page) with an "engine" written in JavaScript and embedded in the HTML page. All these functionalities are managed in an automatic way, which means the user does not have to

know anything about HTML tags or Javascript language.

• This application, which runs under Windows, is a quiz editor. Using it, it is possible to create and manage many types of questions:

• · Questions with multiple choice, of which only an answer can be the right one.• · Questions with multiple answers, of which one or more options can be the right answer.• · True or false questions.• · Questions with open answer with a text box where one is allowed to write an answer freely.• · Gap filling exercises: a phrase with missing words in a text where some words have been

replaced by empty spaces.• · Matching words: there are two distinct groups of words places on two columns. The student

will have to correlate each word of the first group with one of the second.

Question Types for Online Assessment Test

http://testmoz.com/

http://sourceforge.net/

http://c4lpt.co.uk/Showcase/100anything.html

Its time to built Personal Learning Network(PLN)

http://www.ning.com/

Ning is an online platform for people to create their own social networks

Know your Right???

Licence Elements:

• Use Delicious to share resources with students• Have students use Delicious as part of assignments• Use Delicious for professional development and

collaborative planning

More than 52000 e-Books

E-Journals

For E-Journals, E-Books and E-Resources

Collection of E-Learning Tools. Recommended for Advanced Learnershttp://www.unescobkk.org/education/ict/online-resources/e-library/elibrary-themes/teaching-and-learning/collection-of-e-learning-

tools-recommended-for-advanced-learners/

Email to request your copy ict.bgk@unesco.org

One Must experience e-Learning

http://www2.unescobkk.org/ict/elearning/

• Really Simple Syndication or Rich Site Summary (RSS) is a format for delivering regularly changing web content.

• It allows you to easily stay informed by retrieving the latest content from the sites you are interested in.

• More information on http://www.whatisrss.com/ http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/rss.cms

RSS…???

LEARNING

• “Some people study all their life and at their death they have learned everything except THINK”

Francois Domergue

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