Teaching with Technology: Some Pedagogical Implications

Dilip BaradM K Bhavnagar University

Bhavnagarwww.dilipbarad.com

Buddhist Monks: On site of the Heritage of their Predecessors

Let’s empty our minds• Analysis of Responses– Pedagogy: • “Learning replaces Teaching”• “Higher Goals of Education”

– Political Leadership matters: • Leaders are like a drop of poison / nectar near the mouth

of fountain.– Whom to follow to implement these ideas?

• UNESCO: Stages of Integrating ICT in Education• Sugato Mitra: The Future of Learning• Ken Robinson: Changing Paradigms• Salman Khan: The Power of Videos• Martin Dougiamas: Social Constructivism

Paradigm Shift: Learning replaced Teaching

• From teaching to ‘engage’ in learning process . . .

• From isolated learning to collaborative learning…

• From active learning to interactive learning…• From downloaders to uploaders…• From users to creators and contributors…• From islands to bridges…• From teacher to student… (decentering the centre)

Higher Goals of Education

• It’s a university’s job to produce citizens who learn to think for themselves, not just engineers who can be programmed to follow someone else’s code.

Holly Clark• It is imperative that in 2015, students be able to

curate, archive and expand on the work they are producing in class.

• Today’s education must help students authentically learn important digital citizenship lessons.  

• Education must help students to internalize the core subject as well as vital digital literacy skills such as creating their own digital web presence and learning to effectively and purposefully share their learning with the world.

Herbert Gerjuoy has rightly observed:

• "The new education must teach the individual how to classify and reclassify information, how to evaluate its veracity, how to change categories when necessary, how to move from the concrete to the abstract and back, how to look at problems from a new direction — how to teach himself."

One must learn ‘how to unlearn and relearn?’

LOTs

HOTs

• Creativity and Innovation• Critical Thinking &

Problem Solving• Communication:• Collaboration• Information Literacy• Media Literacy• ICT Literacy• Flexibility and

Adaptability• Initiative & Self-direction• Social & Cross-cultural

Skills• Productivity

& Accountability• Leadership &

Responsibility• http://

dilipbarad.blogspot.in/2015/04/mapping-21st-century-skills-english.html

Digital India / Skill India

It is vital for teachers to be comfortable in using ICT and to ensure that students get full benefit of ICT and emerge as citizens knowledgeable in the use of the information

technology with the aim of pursuing higher education or entering the job market with relevant IT skills.

Teachers influence the life of students by being their role models. They are the beacons of light who guide and

motivate students throughout their academic life.President of India, Dr. Pranab Mukherjee on Teacher’s Day 2014

• I will request all the teachers that if something is needed to be learnt, it should be learnt. We should keep on learning irrespective of our age being 40, 45 or 50 or 55 to 60 plus.

• We are living with children who are growing in the age of technology. We should not keep them deprived from this. That will be a social crime. Our efforts should be that our children should be well versed with modern science and technology.

• Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Teacher’s Day Speech 2014

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Sugata Mitra

Ken Robinson

Salman Khan: www.khanacademy.org

Moodle Philosophy• Constructivism:– From a constructivist point of view, people actively

construct new knowledge as they interact with their environments.

Creator: Martin Dougiamas, Perth, Western Australia 33.3 million registered users

3.13 million courses

1.2 million teachers

206 countries

Available in 78 languages

Largest site – 607,500 users

Fast growing since 2003

What sort of social change can happen?

• Click to play video: The Wired Man of Ratnauli

Let us never forget . . .• Technology is a tool . . . Not destination!

• Structured education system . . . Unstructured Life!

If Monks can, why can’t we?

Thank you!