Education and Technology

Teaching and learning norms are totally changed in today's time, in traditional school where instruction to students which are instruction today also; seat , do not talk, finger on your lips, pay attention and listen carefully.But learning started shifting from traditional to digital classroom. now  students are learning which suits their own interest from any corner of the world. here are some speakers who speaks in favor of self paced  learning and use of technology  in it. to see their videos click here

📍Ken Robinson:

Ken Robinson talks about changing paradigms of education system; how parents and teacher are focusing on two major aspects that are Economic and culture, he also discussed about ADHD disease, it is believed that those students who do not pay attention in class  are probably suffering from this disease but the fact is That they are multitaskers. He focuses on divergent thinking; divergent thinking leads to creativity.

📍Sugata Mitra:

Sugata Mitra talks about future of learning and self paced learning. He tried other way out for those poor children form slum areas, who cannot afford learning at school. He put computer in wall and allowed self paced learning and surprisingly students learnt how to operate computer without any guidance or knowledge of English language with the help of SOLE. Old school system is out dated. He dreamed a school of cloud and he wishes that every child have computer and can learn on their own.

📍Salaman Khan/Khan academy:

Khan academy is known for its collection of video, focuses on self pace learning, using technology to humanize the classroom. Anyone can become mentor or tutor. With the help of dashboard one can easily login and can become tutor. Most beautiful thing is that it gives point and badges at every passing level which also gives encouragement to students.

📍Mark Prensky:

Today’s students thinking patterns have changed. Students of today’s time can be considered as digital natives and rest of the others who were not born in digital era can be considered as digital immigrants can’t learn by watching T.V or music, they think that language should not have fun. While digital natives think differently, their daily life revolves around digital tools and apps. Digital immigrants have to get adjust with present time.

📍David crystal:

Literacy is important and it can become powerful by practice of reading and writing. In a time of GMAIL, WAHTSAPP and FACEBOOK  fast texting is important. By texting you can practice reading and writing. Recent research demonstrates that more you text the better your literacy goes.

Technology always has influence on language. David crystal takes us into past. Invention of printing press and telephones and broadcasting all these things introduced to new varieties of language in quite specific ways. Text messaging and twitter brought new abbreviation and these new abbreviations would change language.

Teacher are generation older than  students, globalization of English is another reason for the change in English, there are different English because of different accent like African, Indian and so that job as a  language teacher is very much complex. But at a same time job became easier with the help of internet. You can search and learn by listening audio and analyze accent used by non English people in English. So if you supposed to teach African literature than you can do it.