♧ Digital Immigrants and Digital Natives by Marc Prensky :-
The video is about Digital Immigrants and Digital Natives by Marc Prensky in which how digital Immigrants and digital Natives are very different to each other is discussed. Marc Prensky says that Digital Natives are extra intellectual than Digital Immigrants. They all are well equipped with today's technology. They all know how to use Computers, Laptops and video games. They all are self learners. They don't need any teachers for help. Google and Internet are their GURU.
On the other side Digital Immigrants are not born into the digital world but have at some later point in our lives become fascinated by and adopted many or most aspects of the new technology are and always will be compared to them with digital Natives. Digital Immigrants learn like all immigrants some better than others to adopt to their environment they always retain to some degree, their accents that is their foot in the past.
Marc Prensky gives few fundamentals to differentiate Digital Immigrants and Digital Natives. According to him,
♧ Digital Natives are :-
1. MULTI TASKER
2. Parallel Thinkers
3. MULTI MEDIA
4. MULTI RESOURCES
♧ Digital Immigrants are :-
1. LIMITED RESOURCES
2. TEXT
3. SEQUENTIAL THINKING
4. SINGLE TASK
These all are the some of the basic characteristics given by Marc Prensky to Digital Immigrants and Digital Natives. Further more in this video he says that Digital Immigrants teachers in the schools say their students in the classroom to search perticular topic on Google but Digital Natives teachers directly send the URL to their students and ask tp do flipped learning. Here I would like to put one more point is that Digital Natives are intrested in developing digital library, on the other side digital Immigrants are working with text books as well as resources material both. So, there are some basic differences which is given by Marc Prensky in this video.
♧ The Changing Paradigm by Ken Robinson :-
In this video " Changing Paradigm " by Sir Ken Robinson is talking about the public education system. In the beginning of the video he says that,
" Every country on the earth, at the moment is reforming public education. There are two reasons for it,
{1} ECONOMIC :- Economic people are trying to work out how do we educate our children to take their place in the economics of the 21st century?
{2} CULTURAL :- How we can pass on the cultural genes of our communities while being a part of the process of globalization.
But the problem is that the current education system was designed and conceived and structured for a different age. It was conceived in their Intellectual culture of the enlightenment and in the economic circumstances of the Industrial revolution before the mid of the 19th century. There were no system of public education.
Public education paid for from taxation compulsory to everybody and free at the point of delivery that was a revolutionary idea and many people objected to it. They said it's not possible for many street working class children to benefit from public education. They are incapable of learning to read and write.
We come to think of as academic ability and this is deep in the gene pool of public education of the really two types of the people :
1. Academic & non academic
2. Smart people & non smart people
The result is that many brilliant people think they're not because they're are being judged against this perticular view of the mind. So, we have twin pillars 1. ECONOMIC & 2. INTELLECTUAL. According to Ken Robinson this model has caused chaos in many people's lives. This is called " Modern Epidemic " and it's as misplaced and it's as fictitious. This is the Plague ADHD.
Our children are living in the most intensely stimulating period in the history of the earth. That is being besieged with information and porce. Their attention from every platform computers from iPhones from advertising hoardings from hundreds of television channels. If you travel east across the country people start losing interest in Oklahoma. They can hardly think straight in Arkansas. Ken Robinson believes that we have a system of education that is modelled on the interest of industrialism and in the image of it. He also talks about " Divergent Thinking. " Here I would like to put GIF of some photos in which sir Ken Robinson draws the picture of Divergent thinking.
♧ The School in the Cloud and Future of learning by Sugata Mitro :-
In this video at the very beginning Sugata Mitro asks one question,
" What is going to be the future of learning ?"
He says that if we look at the past, where it come from ? then in present it is quite easy to figure out. We say, It came from about 300 years ago and it came from the biggest empire on this planet, " The British Empire." They ran the whole planet without the computers, without the telephones with data handwritten on pieces of paper and travelling by ships.
But the Victorian had created Global Computer. It's called, " The Bureaucratic Administrative Machine. " for running this machine they need lots of people. They made another machine to produce. This machine is called, " The Schools." The people who are in the schools they must know three thing :
1. They must have good handwriting, because the data is handwritten.
2. They must be able to read.
3. They must be able to do multiplication.
The British empire is gone. But the main question which Sugata Mitro ask is that,
" So, what are we doing with that design that produces these identical people and what are we going to do next?"
But now in the present time the schools are outdated. He says that clerks are the computers. Those people don't need to write beautifully and multiply numbers in their heads. They need to be able to read. But we must have to think that what will be the future and how today's schools are preparing them for that world. Sugata Mitro is sharing his experience which had happened in Delhi before a years ago. He came across two types of people : The Slums and other who knows everything how to runs computer programs and everything. They said Sugata Mitro about their children that,
" You know my son, I think he's gifted. "
At that time he was shocked and decided to do something for the poor children. And then he started doing experiments to those poor children of remote area villages. He gave them computers and made them self learners. He got very satisfied results. Then he thought to do more for them. Sugata Mitro asks the question,
" What it will be tomorrow ? "
Could it be that we don't need to go to school at all. If you wish to find out something, you can find out in two minutes. He says that punishment and examinations are seen as threats. We take our children, we make them shut their brains down and then we say, " Perform. " we need to see at learning as the product of educational Self organization.
Then Sugata Mitro created one programme called, " SOLE " ( SELF LEARNING ORGANISATION LEARNING ENVIRONMENT ) Broadband, Collaboration and encouragement. At the end of the video Sugata Mitro says that,
" My wish is that we design the future of learning. We don't want the spare part for a great human computers. Only we need to design future for learning. This is called, " The School in Cloud. "
- Sugata Mitro
♧ Let's use video to reinvent education by Salman Khan :-
Salman Khan is a founder of " Khan Academy. " We all know that Khan Academy is a non profit course which helps to students and teachers to work individually and collaboratively. It is known for it's collection of videos. It is the platform where students can find their own individual pace. Students can choose whatever and which subject they want to learn. Like Maths, Science, Science and technology, Geometric and many more other.
In this video Salman Khan is talking about his experience and how he started this course. We all know that one single step can help you to get great success. Salman Khan started to put the videos on YouTube. Slowly and steadily he got comments from visitors. Many of them were kids, students and teachers also. Then he came to know that it is helping teachers also. So, he started developing this programme. In this video he is saying very interesting thing is that,
" When those teachers are doing this experiment in classroom, there's the obvious benefit- the benefit that now their students can enjoy the videos in the way that my cousins did. They can pause, repeat at their own pace, at their own time. But the more interesting thing and this is the unintuitive thing when you talk about technology in the classroom by removing the one size - fits all lectures from the classroom and letting students have a self paced lectures at home and then they will go to classroom, letting them do work, having the teachers walk around, having the peers actually be able to interact with each other. These teachers have used technology to humanise the classroom."
The most interesting thing which I like most is that now teachers can give their more time to students to sit around them and interact with them that what have they did and how many videos they have seen and where have they doubt. Students can learn in their own time. This is how Khan Academy course work. Student will get energy points and badges on their performance capacity and level. This is all about Khan Academy by Salman Khan which is discussed by him in this TED TALK video.
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