Here are two photographs of the classes I visited in Regina, Canada. Classes with students fully experiementing in the world of communication and technology with the help of their enthusiastic and futuristic teachers....
There are Educationists really leaping into the future… Are we with them? If not, are we trying to learn their vision at least? Are we preparing ourselves, though at a lower pace, to face the future?... to face the students in the future?
Why is there a shout that the new technology is spoiling the future?
Are we doing anything to shape the future? …. The future with might be a fusion of values and Science?... culture and technology?... humanness and robotics?
Here are a few sites which might help us in our journey towards the future…
http://web.mac.com/iajukes/iWeb/thecommittedsardine/Handouts.html
Visit Juke’s blog her:
http://web.mac.com/iajukes/iWeb/thecommittedsardine/SARDINE%20BLOG/SARDINE%20BLOG.html
Blogs, Wikis and Podcasts are new play-tools in the hands of children as well as youth of today…. Can we, as teachers, use these tools as weapons? If today’s generation is enjoying internet communities, media and sharing tools, how many more days we will survive in their world using OHP transparencies and power-point presentations in their classrooms? We need to change or we will be neglected older generation entities for them...
Isn’t that serious?
6 comments:
Dear Jayshree ma'am, this is a very good topic that you have broached through your blog. Before furthering this discussion, just a request...can I address you by your first name? By Indian standards, I'm probably older than you (40 diwalis!).
I think, we the people working in the field of education (can I call ourselves educationist, if I may) are the lucky lot as we are working with a generation that is learning and growing.
As a teacher, there were some concepts that I truly learned and understood while I was teaching the students. As an Instructional Designer, I got the opportunity to explore new subjects that I may not have otherwise perused on my own.
So, yes, I agree with you that we do have the potential to revolutionize the arena.
But as Indians, are we geared for this? I feel there are several obstacles...funds to begin with. This I feel can be overcome.
However, there is a greater obstacle, rather a block.
The existing generation gap, which seems to be growing exponentially!
Especially when it comes to using technology, parents/teachers (mostly the baby boomers) are either inept or unconfident; as a result they become indifferent, reject it or actually blame it for the waywardness of the GenNext.
Eight out of 10 families will have a common bone of contention, teenagers spending most of their time on the computer, doing god knows what. A great amount of time that can be spent in exchanging enriching ideas and experience turns into bickering sessions.
I have always felt that the amalgamation of experience and energy can work wonders for India.
And I strongly feel that the responsibility of this revolution lies on us—the educationists.
Dear Jayshree ma'am, this is a very good topic that you have broached through your blog. Before furthering this discussion, just a request...can I address you by your first name? By Indian standards, I'm probably older than you (40 diwalis!).
I think, we the people working in the field of education (can I call ourselves educationist, if I may) are the lucky lot as we are working with a generation that is learning and growing.
As a teacher, there were some concepts that I truly learned and understood while I was teaching the students. As an Instructional Designer, I got the opportunity to explore new subjects that I may not have otherwise perused on my own.
So, yes, I agree with you that we do have the potential to revolutionize the arena.
But as Indians, are we geared for this? I feel there are several obstacles...funds to begin with. This I feel can be overcome.
However, there is a greater obstacle, rather a block.
The existing generation gap, which seems to be growing exponentially!
Especially when it comes to using technology, parents/teachers (mostly the baby boomers) are either inept or unconfident; as a result they become indifferent, reject it or actually blame it for the waywardness of the GenNext.
Eight out of 10 families will have a common bone of contention, teenagers spending most of their time on the computer, doing god knows what. A great amount of time that can be spent in exchanging enriching ideas and experience turns into bickering sessions.
I have always felt that the amalgamation of experience and energy can work wonders for India.
And I strongly feel that the responsibility of this revolution lies on us—the educationists.
Thank you Mam to allow me to visit your private blog.I will naturally get lots of latest information after i visit your blog every time.
Anjali Patil
Hi Anjali (Vyas),
Thanks for your valuable and encouraging comments. Yes, we all together can do a lot...
Well, and about calling by first name, yes, you can... you have the right by Indian convention of the age... by two years! What say?
JS
thanks jayshree :)
...with a population like our's (India)...the capabilities of mass media and emedia can be truly tested. so yes, what are we waiting for?
Hello Jay Maam,
I am sorry for responding so late to your blog. I had been wanting to say a lot since I visited your bog on July 28th. But, my health has been giving tremendous trouble, thus I am late.
I very much agree with all the points you have raised and as you have mentioned it should be our concern as well as vision to have the meticulous outlook while linking content with the media. Unfortunately many-a-times it is not so, though. (Probably that has motivated me to join this course as well as to take the topic for IDD in this course.)There are so many aspects in which this vision is needed even in daily routine in academic as well as administrtive fronts. Perhaps as instructional designers, now it is our all the more responsibility to pass on this vision to others.
I found your blog valuable also due to the 'n' number of hyperlinkings to interesting articles. I have downloaded so many of them. They are excellent reference articles for professional writings. What appealed me is the underlining the approach needed.
Thanks for all the efforts you must have taken for preparing your blog and this posting. We do look forward to more brin tonic like this.
madhavi
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