Thursday, 5 February 2015

Foundation for Critical thinking
Ø  Socrates- 2500
Ø  Renaissances period – 15th & 16th centuries scholars like Colet , Erasmus , Moore & Francs Bacon in England
Ø  50 years later – in France – Ds crates “Rules for the Direction of the mind” , Sir Thomas Moore –“ New  social utopia”  in which every domain of the presence world was subject to critique
Ø  Italian Renaissance period – Machiavelli’s “The Prince” critically assessed the politics of the day & laid the foundation for the modern critical political thought.
Ø  16th & 17th century in England – Hobbes & Locke had followed the same principles Machiavelli
Ø  17th century – Robert Boyle , Sir Isaac Newton, “French Englightment” -  Bayle ,Montesquieu ,Voltaire & Diderot
Ø  18th century- Adam Smith & Kant’s (Declaration of Independence & Critique of pure reason)
Ø  19th century- Comet & Spencer
Ø  20th century – William Graham Summer , John Dewey , Ludwig Wittgenstein & Piaget



Friday, 30 January 2015

Education 3.0 and the pedagogy (Andragogy , Heutagogy) of Mobile learning
  Web 1.0 early web where people n search for information and read it but less interaction and content contribution. In education 1.0 teacher was in centre and decide what should be teach in class.
Web 2.0 interaction and social web collaboration between people as well as cooperative and social teaching and learning process.  Same way in education 2.o interaction develop between teacher-student , student-student,  student-content
Web3.0 is a connectives heutagogical approach to teaching and learning. In education 3.0 the learners themselves play a key role. In it how information is generated communicated and supported learning environment.
The pedagogy of mobile learning
  It gives opportunity to engage in authentic activities. Students are able to explore share interact with each other and try to learn by using mobile. They are able to link up with other students in collaborative learning network. Mobile can be used as educational tool where student got platform to perform and connected with teachers and students and access others study material.
The Andragogy of mobile learning
  It’s an Adult learning where Adults are independent. They learn by self-learning and use their self-experience. They deal with real world problems and also use different device of media computer and other web tools etc..
The heutagogy of mobile learning
  It is beyond traditional learning students are used so many apps and internet media laptops tablets and other hand-held device for learning. no classroom boundaries for teacher and students both they can be interact with each other from anywhere and anytime. Students are free to learn whatever they like they are in centre of teaching learning process.

Thursday, 22 January 2015

What is Flubaroo?

Flubaroo is very helpful tool for teachers.it is free tool. It quickly grades fill in the blanks and multiple choice questions. It helps a lot when teacher have to grade large number of students. Teacher should easily make questionnaire in Google drive and send to students by Email. It gives instant result teacher should email each students their grade and answer key. It will be done online so teachers  are easily use as per their  time. No classroom limitation while using it. 

Friday, 2 January 2015

 
What is wiki & purpose of wiki ?
  As we saw in this video wiki is a platform for people where they can interect with eachother. people from different place should share their ideas on comman page. They should edit and also should know who edited what on page.
   inshort wiki is a piece of server software that allows users to freely create and edit web page content using any web browser. wiki supports hyperlinka and has a simple text syntax for creating new pages and crosslinks between internal page on the fly.
    purpose:
-collaborative knowledge base
-student journaling
-conference on website
-Research coordition and collaboration
-provide practice of language skills

Friday, 26 December 2014

     In this video Sugata Mitra share his experience of an Experiment in self teaching which he has done. he had done his experiment in India as well as out of India.
     In his experiment he provide facility of computer. student has seen computer first time instead of it they able to use it and they had done so many things with computer without taking anyone help.they did by thier own. it also helped a lot to students to improve their English and also learn to use computer by their own.
     In his experiment he went out of India. where he was unable to communicate with students because students didn't understand English. Students understand only Italy still they are able to give response to him by using computer.
    throughout his whole experiment we came to conclusion that he focused on self learning of students.if students interested in learning they should learn by their own.
   
 

Wednesday, 24 December 2014

  This is video by Graham stanely  in this video he talked about language learning through Technology. How technology is help in process of language learning.it helps both ESL & EFL learners.
  He explain about usefulness of Blogs,wiki,podcast,video and audio.he also talked about web 2.0 . it's a large platform for learners. They got oppurtunity to interect with other students, teachers  and people of all around the world.learners should know their view as well as share their view with others.
  language learning by using Technology is motivating for student. E- learning gives second life to learners it also known as virtual world where people live their virtual life.