NISHA (UNIT 2) ICT MORNING.

Question no 1:

What are the 21^st century skills? How can the use of technology support or distract from the promotion of these skills?

 21st century skills is define as a set of abilities that students need to develop in order to succeed in the information age. The 21st century skills that modify enhance and develop in three ways.

Learning skills that includes

Ø Critical Thinking.

Ø Creative Thinking.

Ø Collaborating.

Ø Communicating.

Literacy skills that includes.

Ø  Information Literacy.

Ø  Media Literacy.

Ø  Technology Literacy.

Life skills that includes   

Ø  Flexibility.

Ø  Initiative Social Skills.

Ø  Productivity.

Ø  Leadership.

Technology can support the learner as well as educator in the following way.

v Technologies can use as a tool of research, organize, evaluate, and communicate information. Through this a learner can enhance their communication skills, critical thinking and collaboration.

v Literacy skills can develop to interact with technologies for the educational purpose.

v Educator can help out the learner through teaching with technologies like power point presentation word document and other technological activities that can help the student to be flexible in the given environment and the learner would be  social as well as leader ship will develop.

Student can also distract to the technological education if they do not use technology for the purpose of getting knowledge.

Question no 2:

What skills and knowledge do learners requires in an increasingly global and interconnected world? What knowledge and skill will you as future educators need to have to teach, work, and learn in an increasingly connected global and digital society?

There are many skills that a learner need to be part of social, global and interconnected world.

·        Use of technologies is the first priority to stay in the global and digital world.

·        The 2^nd skill is need to develop is language skill because in the interconnected world the diversity of learner is also a part there.so the learner should command on their national language as well as international language.

·        The 3^rd and the most important skill is collaborating skill which is required to do work with collaborating and cooperating.

·        The 4^th skill which is required to survive in global educational community is develop the confidence to ask any type of question as well as to give answer of any question rise toward the global community.

·        Strong Communication skill is also most important to stay in the digital era.

The educator should also updated to be a part of digital communicating world. Because the most famous quote that

“Technology cannot replace the teacher

But

The teacher who use technology can replace the one who do not use.”

So teacher should have a command on computer technologies as well as skills. Educator does have communication power, confidence level, collaboration, Information Literacy, Media Literacy, Technology Literacy, Flexibility Initiative Social Skills, Productivity, and Leadership. Through all these the effective teacher can build the next growing generation.

Question no 3:

Can technology improve teaching and learning and if so, under what conditions? Ask student teacher to briefly summarize the arguments that outline the strength and weakness of technology of technology for teaching and learning.as teacher, what strategies will they use to make sure they avoid these weaknesses?

The classroom of today looks and operates expressively differently to the classrooms of five, ten and even 20 years ago. This is just because of technology. Yes technology can improve teaching as well as learning through Simplifying lesson preparation, Aiding assessment, breaking down boundaries, Encouraging collaboration, Introducing interactivity.  Lesson preparation is an area which technology can provide a extensive level of support. Software, such as Promethean’s Class Flow allows teachers to plan collaborative, multimedia-rich lessons and create assessments and assignments that can be delivered across a variety of technologies for use in and out of the classroom. Using technology for assessment can take on many forms, but overall technology can enhance assessment by providing schools with the means to design flexible assessment standards that supports a comprehensive range of student’s skills and competences. In this occasion Class Flow provides teacher’s with the means to use real-time comment, which allows them to determine how well a class is understanding a lesson and even drill down to individual student’s comprehension, meaning certain topics can be covered and explained again if required. For the school this should mean an overall improvement in reporting and potentially grades. The most notable use of technology is that it no longer limits lesson time to the traditional four walls of the classroom, creating a true learning continuum between home and school. Schools are empowering teachers and students to take more control over their learning and harness the potential of new learning experiences, inspiring learning to take place in other locations such as libraries and museums. Students can use technology to meet, collaborate and create content virtually. Technology helps students to research subjects, share ideas and learn specific skills. Technology allows for such flexibility in learning that it is enabling our students to work in a more collaborative manner. Technology is a key building block in facilitating collaborative learning. Engage with their peers in problem solving activities and create a more collective approach to lesson time.  Whereas laptops and mobile devices are key for remote collaboration and online learning outside of the classroom. Supported by technology, students are generating new approaches to problem solving and learning how to work combined with their peers, a great attribute for their future careers.