Waiting for the tech enabled education revolution…
I was watching this video and I couldn’t help myself nodding in agreement all throughout the video, to the extent that I was nodding away even after the video had ended. We have somehow been thinking that learning is about delivering content in a manner that learners find it interesting. Hence the movement towards showing videos over television, 70-412 pdfshowing animations in the classroom and so on, what we fail to realize is that there are many more facets just to content delivery, the other aspects are way beyond. Even to content delivery, there is the issue of timing, sequence and relevance. Which content should be delivered when, should a video be used to create interest, should the same video be used to explain the concept once interest has been aroused or should it be used at the end of the learning cycle to reinforce the concept. What should follow the video, should it be a detailed pdf note or should it be a Multiple Choice Quiz or should it be an assignment or a case study. Again whether the
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learner relate it to the society that the learner belongs to. Hence I feel it is not just about creating the content and making it accessible to the learner, the teacher has to be there right in the middle of this process, guiding the learner to the culturally appropriate content at the right time and in the right sequence. Like I said earlier there are other issues of depth and breadth of the content, the difficulty level and the complexity of the skills that are to be developed using the content. These are issues that need further contemplation and the learner has to be guided in a conscious manner through this process. Left to the learner, they will just flow with the easiest way out, most of them will leave the topic as soon as they hit some resistance. So keeping the learners on the topic, getting them to persist and probe, learn and discuss are integral part of a teachers job and I think it is the expectation that technology will do all of this and more is what is taking us in the wrong direction. Technology just needs to facilitate the right content discovery by the teacher and hence the learner, it has to facilitate the delivery of content to the learner and further enable discussion and social interaction around the content. This is where I feel Flinnt has the right tools for the teacher, it does not presume that the platform alone will bring about a revolution. Flinnt aims only to empower the educators with tools to bring about the revolution.
Technology as a facilitator to the educator and that is where I feel there can be a revolution. 700-501 pdfTechnology providing help and support to the educator and empowering them to bring about the revolution rather than trying to replace the educator. Image : Sonny Abesamis CC BY 2.0
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