Thinking activity : Education and Technology

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“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
                                                                                                                                    - Nelson Mandela

                                                               Once upon a time education system working into jungle or Ashram but today we know that invention of technology and internet we learn easily through small device off mobile.

                                                                As a point of view Nelson Mandela that Education is a one of the weapon which able to change the world but nowadays all the things happen through technology or digitization so may be How education system escape from technology ? According to my opinion that not only education system help to change the world but also we need to technology. Through technology education system become more better and faster.. anyway so this task given by Prof. Dilip barad sir as a part of new literature. For the more information about this task you can click here. Moreover this task also helpful to understand new theory and education system.

Video:- 1) Changing Paradigms by Ken Robinson.

                                                The Country on earth at the moment is reforming public education. There are so many types reasons responsible. One of the reason is economic. Here I have one question increase into my mind that How do we educate our children to take their place in the economies of the 21st century. How do we do that? How do you do that?

                                                    Normally, Ken Robinson has given whinges about the educational system without presenting even one creative, usable solution to the problems that he reports -- problems that every one of us is acutely aware of. Anyone can criticize the system but few can fix it. 

                                                     In this video Ken Robinson focused on changing education system, economic and role of culture. Moreover he added that only degree and certificate is not justify ability but there skill and representation  also more important. According to my point o view nowadays educational institute like a store & shop and teachers are playing role of shopkeeper but here question is that what happen about student ? They sometimes pay fees and getting certificate. In some cases  doesn't become part of education process. As a result students learning outcome got difference way.Here I agree with idea of ken Robinson because If used technology in education system so that my be learning outcome get better rather than traditional method so why education is not provided with help of technology ?  

Video:- 2) and 3) are by Sugata Mitra on SOLE and Future Learning.

                                                “Instead of giving people a menu of academic disciplines, we should give them a menu of problems and challenges that the world is facing.”

                                                 Sugata Mitra's concept on school in the cloud so here question is how possible make school in the cloud? So there are learning lab. Through resources students are explore their knowledge each other. moreover he gave concept of SOLE. It's means Self Organized Learning Environments. In this video more focused on threat of examination. He notify one experiment where he put one computer into wall and shared their behavior or feeling. Sugata Mitra's focused on that students don't need gather at school or collage but they do collaboratively work. He added that examining system must be based on logical or that question should be used into regular life also. Another thing that If students has knowledge of technology so may be there are no need to teacher. They all learn through technology without going school.

Video:- 4) Use of Videos in Education by Salman Khan.

                                                  Salman Khan is the founder of the Khan Academy. He talked on the need to create alternative access to classroom content and how videos can be used to flip a classroom. While showing the power of interactive exercises, Salman argues for a change in the teaching paradigm: Using technology to "humanize" the classroom by flipping the traditional classroom script  given to students video lectures to watch at home and do "homework" in the classroom with the teacher as a facilitator, coach and mentor.

                                                  The Khan Academy and Salman Khan has also shared some 2,200 video courses and reaching more than a million learners monthly. In his lecture he given his vision for interactive, self-paced, evolved learning. get Abstract suggests his inspired, and inspiring, lecture to corporate learning specialists and other educators.

                                                    Normally students believe that Mathematics, science, geography....etc subject never learn through video or online courses but Khan academy prove that. Moreover flip learning also flexible for the students because of they learn through flip whenever or wherever. I think audio- visual also more helpful to understand heavy subject. I am learning basic grammar course by khan academy app. There are all courses freely available also so that no need to give excuse of premium.

Video:- 5) Audio track by Marc Prensky on Digital Natives and Immigrants.

                                                 ‘Digital natives’  born after the 1980s but now comfortable in the digital age there are one reason for comfortable is that they all are growing up with using technology when ‘digital immigrants’who born before 1980s and they fearful for the using technology. ‘Digital immigrants’ put into the older crew. they weren’t raised in a digital environment. The term digital immigrant applies to individuals who were born before the spread of the digital technology and who were not exposed to it at an early age. Digital natives are the opposite of digital immigrants, they have been interacting with technology from childhood. According to Prensky, digital natives are the generation of young people who are “native speakers” of the digital language of computers, video games and the Internet.

Nowadays students are become more digital native rather than digital immigrated because of they have all kind of digital platform and also spending time by them.

Video:- 6,7,8) These are by David Crystal. He speaks about the influence of technology on English language. 

                                                  David Crystal is a one of the known British linguist. He mentioned one this in his video that new technology had influence of  English Language which he prove and give example of printing press and telephone. Through that example he established that how both the things change communication and speaking style. At last part of he attention on  Radio, television and Internet which change domain. He also added that through technology we increase English language for example Whats app, Facebook, you tube...etc.

                                                 Here David Crystal focused on effect of technology with English language but generally people used social media so I can't say that all the user used properly English language but they used short form there. It's not appropriate for the English language. Even teacher talked about Globalization into classroom but he/she not allow to used mobile into classroom.

                                                 Moreover, He discussed on texting message is best way for language learning but I am not agree with this idea because of technology provided voice tap or voice recorder so user only speak and software record voice then transferred  into letter.

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Quality and Authenticity of web Resources

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• What is Research ?

                                                According to the American sociologist Earl Robert Babbie, “Research is a systematic inquiry to describe, explain, predict, and control the observed phenomenon. Research involves inductive and deductive methods.”

• Types of research:-

1) Basic research
2) Applied research
3) Problem oriented research
4) Problem solving research
5) Qualitative research

• Difference between Search and Research:-

                                                According to my point of view that search is a way of discovering some kind of without specific objective but research is a method of searching new thing with specific purpose and also systematic way. So there are minor difference between there.

                                                Nowadays we know that technology more helpful to search anything whenever, whatever, wherever and I have to say that today world on the screen of mobile so that research doing easily by scholar but here one problem is that sometime they doing crime of copyright also.

                                                Few day ago department of English was organised useful workshop on research, methodology and plagiarism. There were discussion about How to check and identify authentic web resource ? by Prof. Dilip Barad sir. He also explain about what is authentic internet sources and how we can identify. There were discussed on Quantitative assumptions which mentioned some parameters also. I  found some web or site which was not able to achieve parameters that way which we looking that workshop.

• Turnitin:-

                                                 Turnitin is a one of the site which focus on plagiarism, streamline grading. Moreover, It is a site of evaluation of sources which normally used by students. It's more helpful for students and research scholar because of there are given feature of evaluation through rubric standard way. However it more helpful in improving our research paper or assignments. Here are I put some parameters for to identify authentic resource like as,

1) Authority

2) Educational Value

3) Intent

4) Originality

5) Quality

• Wikipedia:-

                                                 Wikipedia is a platform which provide freely information with simple language. It's one of the primary site for any information nowadays but it's not authentic source for research because there are anyone edit information that platform and another reason is that this site fail to achieve major standard of rubric evaluation but generally students more visit this site.

                                                 At the end of the workshop sir also given task us to apply the rubric evaluation on site which we used again and again for academic way. Here I mentioned s site of gradesaver.com  which evaluate by me based on rubric evaluation and also given description which may be help to you for better understanding. 

                                                 Thus this workshop also remain fruitful for me because nowadays I also work on research paper and assignments so It's more helpful for me. This productive session also focus on awareness of Qualitative content, originality and plagiarism.

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A Grain of Wheat

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• A Grain of Wheat:-

                                                A Grain of Wheat is a novel by Kenyan novelist James Ngugi. first published in 1967 by Heinemann. The title is taken from the Gospel According to St. John, 12:24. The novel weaves together several stories set during the state of emergency in Kenya's struggle for independence (1952–59) ( Wiki.)

• Robinson Crusoe:-

                                                The novel Robinson Crusoe tells the story of a young and impulsive Englishman that defies his parents' wishes and takes to the seas seeking adventure. The young Robinson Crusoe is shipwrecked and castaway on a remote tropical island for 28 years. The story may be based on the true-life events of Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish castaway who survived four years on a Pacific island, or Henry Pitman, a political rebel surgeon castaway from a Caribbean penal colony. This classic tale of adventure features cannibals, captives, and mutineers. Some regard it as the very first modern novel written in the English language, launching the publishing industry. ( https://americanliterature.com) 

                                               Colonialism is a practice of the powerful over the less powerful. It is defined as an occupation of workers territory by a stronger nation or state for “political domination” “economic exploitation” and “civilizing mission.” Through these novels these three authors deal with imperialism, racism, class and cultural conflict to show how colonialism creates false illusion to believe that the West is “self” and the East is “other”; one is “superior” other is “subaltern”. Representation is an important aspect of colonialism and according to Edward Said representations of the Orient both visual and textual is a kind of illusion not real rather than biased and constructed by “Western Ideology.”Colonial representation is a discourse that relates with power and domination. It is productive and quickly spreads throughout the whole society to dominate the subaltern or the colonized.

                                                In Robinson Crusoe representation of colonialism is clearly reflected through the relationship between the colonized and colonizer, representation of a colonized land and people, and representation of colonialism from the viewpoint of trade, commerce and buildings empire. Crusoe is the representation of a colonial figure and colonial mind in this fiction, and Friday is a symbol of all those natives who were dominated in the age of “European imperialism”. Friday is so obedient, grateful and faithful to Crusoe that he never realizes that this man, who saved his life, is not only helps him from his good will but his main purpose was to make him a devoted slave. Crusoe and Friday live harmoniously on the island, but the methods with which Crusoe enslave Friday also link him to colonial history.

A Grain of Wheat " novel representation of African people struggle for identity. Through character of Mumbi justify African culture and lifestyle. This novel concern also on native colonial people. In the novel villagers do preparation of celebration of Kenya's independence day whose call Uhuru day. There were reflection of conflict of east and African with western community which believed that they all civilized rather than black people. They behaved with them as a master and ruler so that western culture try to overpower on them. Same happen into Robinson Crusoe novel. There were Friday was a slave and black person whose name & identity given by Crusoe who ruled on him. It was common native representation into both the novel.


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Introductory thinking activity: Mass Media and communication

                                                 Mass media means technology that is intended to reach a mass audience. It is the primary means of communication used to reach the vast majority of the general public. The most common platforms for mass media are newspapers, magazines, radio, television, and the Internet. The general public typically relies on the mass media to provide information regarding political issues, social issues, entertainment, and news in pop culture.


                                                My favorite Mass Media platform for the communication or sharing my views are Social Media Platforms. Once upon a time there were people used birds or letter for each other communication but we know that there were taken more time to received message. Sometime not get letter so that type of problem faced by them. Nowadays Mass Media play whooping role for the communication among country or nation.

                                                I would more like Whats-app, Facebook or YouTube which used by me into present time. I think after the invention of internet, there are all the things easy for isolated too. Here I put my point of views on my favorite social media.

# Whats app:-

                                               Whats app is a one of the easy platform which may be each and every person has account. Through whats app I connect normally with so many relative, classmate or group and sharing new things each other within one second. It's provide some facility like as Image, text message, video call, recording, audio-video clip, Gifs file, Documents, contact, camera,location, status, Whats app web...etc. There are place for communication where anybody can share with everyone. Some time through whats-app many company working and progress their business. So I prefer Whats app rather than other social media. I have to mention that this app has some limitations but it's easy for communication.

# Facebook:-

                                               According to my point of view that Facebook means book of faces. If I look as educational perspective so that so many teacher or professor who makes learning easy, interesting or accessible with the help of Facebook. Moreover Facebook is a global platform which join each other person to nation. Through this app teacher or students communicate each other, and also another person comment on there. I think there are wide place to every one for communication. One more thing I notify that we can't go each and every place, school or Uni. but through Facebook we know what happen into the world. There are some teachers who teaches lessons in the class then share related concept on Facebook and sometime also live telecast on their page.

# You Tube:-

                                                Sometime You tube more helpful for better understanding of books or novels. You Tube or Flip learning more helpful for not only entertainment but also for learning new thing where we learn without going any classics and without payment. It's platform also help to earn money also. We know that audio- video more appropriate to learning's new topics. We also create channel and sharing our talents there. It's provide You Tube music, You Tube TV, You Tube Original...etc.

                                                If we talking about benefits of Social Media so I mention one more thing that I can't say about safety of persons privacy or data. Moreover without internet we can't communicate each other so internet is basic necessary for social media.

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