USE OF ICT IN TEACHER EDUCATION

Dr. Jagannath K. DangeDepartment of Education

Kuvempu UniversityShankaraghattaDist: Shimoga,

Karnataka

jkdange@gmail.comhttp://jkdange.blogspot.com

The National Knowledge Commission (NKC) has observed that teachers are the single most important element of the education system and the country is already facing a severe shortage of qualified and motivated teachers at different levels.

The training of teachers is a major area of concern at present as both pre-service and in-service training of teachers are extremely inadequate and poorly managed in most states.

Pre-service training needs to be improved and differently regulated both in public and private institutions.

Pre-service training needs to be improved and differently regulated both in public and private institutions, NCTFE 2009 emphasised ICT in schooling as well as e-learning became centre stage in the frame work.

  ICT has become an integral part of today’s

teaching learning process.

Countries across the world are using ICT in facilitating information dissemination and communication in all areas of education and training.

Effective use of technology can motivate students, make our classes more dynamic and interesting, and renew teacher enthusiasm as they learn new skills and techniques. Technology is also helping the students to understand any abstract concepts clearly.

The integration of ICTs in teaching in general and teacher education in particular is the need of the day. The use of ICTs can make substantial changes both for teaching and training mainly in two ways.

Firstly, the rich representation of information changes learner’s perception and understanding of the context.

Secondly, the vast distribution and easy access to information can change relationships between teachers and taught. ICTs can also provide powerful support for educational innovation.

TEACHER EDUCATION REFORM: CONTEXT AND CONCERNS

Time is not sufficient: most of the teacher educators felt that comprehensive Experiences can’t be given in the one year duration of teacher training course and was very difficult to imbibe skills and aptitude. It was also opined there was a mismatch between the training student teachers get in the colleges with the real teaching Experience they had in the regular classrooms.

On supportive to the above statements the Honourable Justice Verma committee proposed to have 2 years B.Ed. course and NCTE has suggested to have the Blend of technology (ICT) with all subjects and Experiences of training.

Why do we need ICT? The face of classroom is changing. The

teachers should prepare to keep up with technology utility in the classroom. ICT is not only an essential tool for teachers in their day to day work, but also offers them opportunities for their own professional development.

In conventional teaching most of the time is consumed for the input output and less time left for the process. But in teaching with ICT the input and output time is reduced and process time is increased. When the process time is increased, time of students’ activities, discussion, correlation with other subjects, brainstorming and learning etc will increase.

APPROACHES OF ICT:approaches to ICT which can be used in the classroom 1.Integrated approach: This aims at planning the use

of ICT within the subject to enhance particular concepts and skills and improve pupils’ achievement. This involves, Selecting the suitable ICT resources which will contribute to the aims and objectives of the curriculum.

2.Enhancement Approach: this focus on the use of an ICT resource will enhance the existing subject matter through some aspects of the lessons and tasks. Eg. Using an electronic whiteboard for presenting a theory about a topic.

3.Complementary approach: This aims at using an ICT resource to empower the students’ learning, Eg. By enabling them to improve their class work by taking notes on the computer or by sending home work by email to the teacher from home.

To effectively harness the power of the new information and communication technologies (ICTs) to improve learning, the following essential conditions must be met:

Students and teachers must have sufficient access to digital technologies and the Internet in their classrooms, schools, and teacher education institutions.

High quality, meaningful, and culturally responsive digital content must be available for teachers and learners.

Teachers must have the knowledge and skills to use the new digital tools and resources to help all students achieve high academic standards.

PHASES FOR IMPLEMENTING ICT IN THE CLASSROOM:

1. ICT literacy2.The effective and efficient use of ICT

hardware and software for teaching learning activities.

3. Pedagogy based ICT use(Integration of ICT in subject content, teaching, online support, networking and management)

4. Adopt best innovative practices in the use of ICT.

ICT and e-learning: Explosive upcoming of ICT

Computers, Networks: Internet and the Web, mobile phone, tablets, E-learning, and on-line learning. Lesson plan-correction- mail, Discussion groups, Blogs-creation and discussion, Guidance. Website-create and post important events-test, scores and programs, Internet-Google free Books, articles, reports, theses, projects. Google videos- learning theories, discussions, conference discourses. Micro teaching skills- record and make repositories. Mobile phone-SMS-free sms.com,way2sms.com whatsapp, hike.com,

telegram Facebook, Tweeter Slideshare.com, freeshare.com Radio and TV lessons E-gyankosh, e-content repositories. IGNOU-content, NCERT, NCTE, UGC, DSERT- websites. Virtual classroom, smartboards-whiteboards

MOOCs (Massive Open online Courses) MOOCs are recent development that is reshaping the

trend of higher education on the web. It represents an emerging methodology of online teaching, based on the philosophy of connectivism. “Massive” refers to the large number of students can be engaged in online course, and its “Openness” is associated with software used registration to anyone who has access to web, open curriculum, learning resources and evaluation.

MOOC providers: USA (Coursera, EdX, Udacity), Ireland(ALISON), Germany(iversity), Australia open2study), Japan(schoo), FutureLearn, open courseware, OpenUpEd, KHANACADEMY, educa, saylor.org, MOOC2DEGREE, NovoED, Canvas network, Neodemia, World Education University(WEU), Stanford Online, Eliedemy, EURODL,CLASS CENTRAL, edSurge, EFQUEL, Commonwealth of Learning, Minglebox, Swayam etc

E-journals: www.e-journals,org/ , http://www.sciencedirect.com/, www.doaj.org

Open education Resources for Teacher Educators, Teachers and Learners

Geogebra, Google Earth, Hot potato, C-map, R-campus, Mahara, Moodle and wiki-spaces, classroom-2.0, Visual field trips, statistical tools and web conferencing.

Reduce the hard work make to work smartly.

What we require is teacher with blend of education principles, educational software. - Computer teacher at B.ED. Colleges.

Own Experiences:

Effectiveness of mobile learning approach in the development of Teaching skills, vocabulary and mobile phone usage among student teachers.

The research was carried out to find the effectiveness of learning through mobile phones in teacher training institutes first time in India, funded by University Grants Commission.

Experimental method was used.

Being a member of curriculum development committee constituted by Higher Education council of Karnataka.

Developed curriculum for two year B.Ed. course of Karnataka state, maintaining the blend of technology with all subjects.

The two samples of courses prepared are as follows,

Perceptions of Educational Technology

Learning Activities

1. Visit websites (Khans academy, E-Gyankosh, Shodhaganga, NCTE, NCERT, DSERT, UGC) Collecting Documents like Polices, plans, statistics, scholarships, issue and trends and writing reports.

2. Free website development and usage (Webs.com)3. Recording- Audio/Video lectures discussions, and presentations

etc, editing and writing report on procedures. 4. CAI- Development and reporting5. Mobile learning- related activities like use of blue tooth, SMS,

MMS and other features.6. Blog- development and related activities7. Login in to You tube-download and upload. 8. Writing a report on TV Lessons and discussions9. Writing a report on Radio lessons and discussion.10. List out the content related different learning experiences

 

Course for lab work: ICT Activities :1. Prepare the printed teaching materials using the MS-Word (In any

subject -Any unit to be selected, in any language).Use of self-learning materials for the anyone unit by using ICT.

2. Prepare the result sheet in MS-Excel showing the subject wise marks, total marks, percentage Rank, pass or fail, Graphical presentation

3. Preparation of PPT slides (at least 10) for classroom usage.4. Create an e-mail-id and google account and exchange learning

related information.5. Downloading Anti-virus software through internet and installing to

the system.6. Browse the search engines and download the relevant materials

/information.7. Prepare a list of Educational websites, Reference Books, Research

papers etc that are useful in Education.8. Prepare the submission of core papers with the help of ICT. (Anyone

Topic from Anyone Subject)9. Survey of educational sites based in India10. Use of available software or CDs with LCD projection for subject

learning interactions

11. Generating subject-related demonstrations using computer software

12. Enabling students to plan and execute projects (using computer based research)

13. Interactive use of ICT: Participation in Yahoo groups, creation of 'blogs', etc

14. Collection of e-resources and Reporting. (Text-Books, Articles, Reports, Theses; Audio and Video Files related to educational technology)

15. Critical review of UNESCO ICT Competency standards for Teachers-2008

16. Write a report on INSAT programs. 17. Developing Educational blog in

www.blogger.com www.wordpress.com18. Develop the news groups and report.19. Creating an Account in Teacher tube/slideshare

and sharing your video/powerpoint 

TECHNOLOGY USE FOR TEACHERS AND STUDENTS:

Encourage contacts between students and teachers; especially those students who were unwilling to speak out in face to face classroom settings.

Develop reciprocity and co-operation among students for the benefit of peer learning.

Active learning techniques make learners active.

Give necessary prompt feedback. Emphasize time on task. Communicate high expectations. Respect diverse talents and ways of learning.

The Stanford centre for innovations in learning(SCIL): Effective teacher includes being

Concerned Committed Creative Competent

An educational system can be as good as its teachers

Who is a teacher? One who dares to teach and never

cease to learn

THANK YOU

Dr. Jagannath K. DangeDepartment of EducationKuvempu UniversityShankaraghattaDist: Shimoga, Karnataka

jkdange@gmail.comhttp://jkdange.blogspot.com