CURRENT TRENDS IN EDUCATION SCENARIO

January 13, 2013

NOW THE TIME IS TO LAY THE FOUNDATION TO ENSURE THAT OUR STUDENTS EVOLVE INTO CRITICAL CONSUMERS OF CONTENT, UNDERSTAND THE IMPORTANCE OF DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP, AS WELL AS POSSESS THE ABILITY TO CREATE, ANALYZE, AND INTERPRET AN ARRAY OF MEDIA MESSAGES

Effects of Information Technology

Globalization

Robotization

Digitalization

Automation

Technology is a bridge in between learner and instructor

In Plato’s time it was the invention of writing

Distance between instructor and learner has always been but technology closes the gap

Finland, Singapore And China Take Teaching Seriously Finnish children don't start school until they are

7. They rarely take exams or do homework till 15 then only one mandatory standardized test at 16. The difference between weakest and strongest students is the smallest in the World.

In Singapore, prospective teachers come from a pool of the best graduates, they enter a high-quality preparation program, and they receive a salary while they prepare. They enter a well-paid profession.

In China, billions of yen are being spent on a plan to improve millions of teachers’ preparation, professional development and working conditions. Optimum user of technology in education even far ahead than USA.

Neither the strongest of the species nor the

most intelligent survives, but the most responsive to change”. This

means change with time help us

to develop and strengthen our

organization.

We live in an age of technology where children in our schools often know more about technology than their teachers. Most teachers did not grow up with the technology that has become part of the everyday lives of today’s children.

An Idea of Edison To make BulbRemoved theDarkness of Night

Educate for the future, not just the present:

Many of today's job titles, and the skills needed to fill them, simply did not exist

20 years ago.

Education systems need to consider what skills today's students will need in future and teach accordingly.

the discovery was made because people were able to recognize the

significance of something they had never seen before!

Charles Good year had been working for several years on how to preserve and cure raw rubber

so it would maintain its elastic characteristics regardless of

temperature. His development of vulcanization, the method used to process rubber for tires, occurred

by following an instinct he said had come to him in a dream:

Combine sulfur with the rubber.

Recognizing the Unexpected

In October 1959, the United State felt deeply humiliated by the launching of the soviet spaceship Sputnik.

The question was asked, How did this happen? How did the United state with all its technological capabilities, all its talent, and all its money, not achieve the goal of being first in space?

Let’s recall the events of May 25, 1961. President John F Kennedy gave a speech and said: “I believe this nation should commit itself to achieve the goal before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning himself to Earth.” And they did!

At 4:18 P M on July 20, 1969 Neil A Armstrong Reporting: “One small step for man, one giant step for mankind.” As came down the ladder from the lunar module Eagle, he made the above statement. This historic event, which included Edwin E Aldrin, Jr. and Michael Collins as the other astronauts, is burned into the memories of all who observed it.

A question on a physics exam at the University of Copenhagen:

"Describe how to determine the height of a skyscraper with a

barometer." One student replied: "You tie a long piece of string to the neck of the barometer, then lower the barometer from the roof of the skyscraper to the ground. The length of the string plus the length of the barometer will equal the height of the building." This highly original answer so incensed the examiner that he failed the student who immediately appealed on the grounds that his answer was indisputably correct.

The university appointed an independent arbiter to decide the case. The arbiter ruled that the answer was indeed correct, but did not display any noticeable knowledge of physics. It was decided to call the student in and allow him six minutes in which to provide a verbal answer which showed at least a minimal familiarity with the basic principles of physics.

For five minutes the student sat in silence, forehead creased in thought. The arbiter reminded him that time was running out, to which the student replied that he had several extremely relevant answers, but couldn't make up his mind which to use.

On being advised to hurry up the student replied: First, you could take the barometer up to the roof of the skyscraper, drop it over the edge, and measure the time it takes to reach the ground. The height of the building can then be worked out from the motion equation. "But, Sir, I wouldn't recommend it as Bad luck on the barometer."

If the sun is shining you could measure the height of the barometer, then set it on end and measure the length of its shadow. Then you measure the length of the skyscraper's shadow, and thereafter it is a simple matter of proportional geometry to work out the height of the skyscraper.

"But, Sir, if you wanted to be highly scientific about it, you could tie a short piece of string to the barometer and swing it like a pendulum, first at ground level and then on the roof of the skyscraper. The height is worked out by the difference in a gravitational formula.

If the skyscraper has an outside emergency staircase, it would be easier to walk up it and mark off the height of the skyscraper in barometer lengths, then add them up."

You could use the barometer to measure the air pressure on the roof, and on the ground, and then convert the difference in millibars into feet to give the height of the building."

But since we are constantly being exhorted to exercise independence of mind and apply scientific methods, undoubtedly the best way would be to knock on the janitor's door and say to him 'If you would like a nice new barometer, I will give you this one if you tell me the height of this skyscraper'.

The student was Niels Bohr, the only Dane ever to win the Nobel Prize in physics.

True innovators rarely follow the straight and narrow path. They do

march to a different drummer

Swims against the tide

Education Technology Objectives: to bring every student up to the same level in less class time

Technology for

them those

•want the grading and paperwork processes of teaching to be easier

•want to know more about learners

•want to hold the attention of learners and to use various media to improve learning rather than just entertain.

Technology or Technique is Not Neutral…

Technological determinism means that if you change a part of an interconnected system, the rest of the system WILL eventually and inevitably change.

We conform to it, it does not conform to us.

But perhaps it can be Helpful.

Changing world

Devices per chip double every 12 months

Anyone, anywhere, anytime able to talk, write and send audio and visual to anyone else.

Now you click rather than type

Computers reach the speed of 20 quadrillion instructions per second, equal to the human brain

Shortly available Spare Parts:

Lungs And Kidneys 2015

Artificial Brain Cells 2017 Synthetic Muscles 2019 Artificial Eye Implant 2024 Artificial Brain 2035

Red A!ertA 42 years old woman, wife of a senior railway officer and mother of two teenaged daughters, jumped off the balcony of her flat in a multistoried apartment in Delhi. Apparently, she was depressed over the poor performance of one her daughter in the Class XII Maths examination. A research says that the total amount of information available on this planet doubles after every one and a half year to two years. By the time a student passes out, the information he or she has learnt get given up.

Challenges you typically face :

Students come to school not ready to learn.Students are verbally or physically abusive.Parents are openly hostile to your efforts.Parents disregard the importance of school.

Don’t expect that your

child will be as obedient as your pet

is.

TEACHING IS THE PROFESSION THAT TEACHES ALL THE OTHER PROFESSIONS.

teaching is to make learning contagious, to

have one idea spark another,

means children learn how to learn

Teaching today is a more complex, more demanding profession than it ever was in the past

Job Description for a today’s Teacher

Teaching

Diagnostic expert

Content expert

Curriculum designer

Assessment expert

Disciplinarian

counselor

Researcher

Social worker

Policymaker

Teachers often come under fire for their failure to use technology into their classrooms. Encourage teachers who are not using technology not coated with Teflon so nothing sticks.

Administrators need to model be knowledgeable and effective users first

yourself e-mail notices to staff, rather than printing

and distributing them ask that lesson plans be submitted through

e-mail or on disk. insist that all teachers create a class Web

page.

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

 

You can be a

trailblazer. Trailblazers are leaders

who see and create new paths in achieving professional goals and

personal dreams.

Being Visionary School leadersOur duty to connect the brains, hearts and

hands of the students, for Purposeful Living 

Time to Rethink, Reimaging, Restructure

and Re-skill to evolve digital citizen

Bringing knowledge alive sparking imagination creating possibility and caring environment

ALL WE LEARN BY DOING

GNR (Genetic, Nanotechnology and Robotics) combine to

remake civilization of digital citizen

PRESENTED BY

SUBHASH JAIN

AN EDUCATORAUTHOR &PRINCIPAL:MODI SCHOOL