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Sir Ken Robinson: Changing Paradigm
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Human Intelligence is Richer and More Dynamic than we have been led to believe by formal academic education.
Changing Education Paradigms is a narrative from Sir Ken Robinson that provides an inspirational insight and overview of the current worldwide education structure, the effects that it is having on our school kids and society, and an invitation to consider what it would take to shift the current industrial concept of schooling to a more sustainable one.
Reforming Public Education
There are two reasons for it. For that
Economic
Cultural
Economic
The first of them is economic. People are trying to work out
“How do we educate our children to take their place in the economies of the 21st century”?
How do we do that, given that we can’t anticipate what the economy will look like at the end of next week as the recent turmoil is demonstrating?
How do we do that?
Cultural
The second, though, is cultural. Every country on earth is trying to figure out
How do we educate our children so they have a sense of cultural identity and so that we can pass on the cultural genes of our communities while being part of the process of globalization?
How do we square that circle?
The problem is, they’re trying to meet the future by doing what they did in the past, like any one has done their schooling. They have better opportunities to got Collage degree.
Problem of Education system
The system was was designed and conceived and constructed for a different age.It was conceived in the intellectual culture of the enlightenment and in the economic circumstances of the industrial revolution. They think that "They’re incapable of learning to read and write, and why are we spending time on this?”
Twin pillars: economic and intellectual
This model has caused chaos in many people’s lives. It’s been great for some and most people have not. it’s as fictitious: this is the plague of ADHD. Now this is a map of the instance of ADHD in America or prescriptions for ADHD.
Therefore he first talked about to think differently about human capacity. We have to get over this old conception of academic, non-academic, abstract, theoretical, vocational… and see it for what it is, a myth.
Second is that we have to recognize that most great learning happens in groups, that collaboration is the stuff of growth and separate them and judge them separately, we should have disjunction between them and their natural learning environment.
Thirdly it’s crucially about the culture of our institutions, the habits of institution and the habitats that they occupy.
Video 2:Sugata Mitra: School in the cloud- SOLE
He starts with the question like What is going to be the future of learning? To look at present-day schooling the way it is, it's quite easy to figure out where it came from. It's called the bureaucratic administrative machine. The schools would produce the people who would then become parts of the bureaucratic administrative machine. They must know three things:
They must have good handwriting, because the data is handwritten
They must be able to read and multiplication, division, addition and subtraction in their head.
They must be so identical
They're there in thousands in every office. And you have people who guide those computers to do their clerical jobs. Those people don't need to be able to write beautifully, multiply numbers,or read. In fact, they need to be able to read discerningly.
How is present-day schooling going to prepare them for that world?
He talked about an experiment of Delhi into a really remote village There was no place to stay, he stuck his computer in, when he came back after a couple of months, found kids playing games on it. "We want a faster processor and a better mouse."
"How on Earth do you know all this?"
"You've given us a machine that works only in English, so we had to teach ourselves English in order to use it." that he had heard the word "teach ourselves".
"Hole in the wall film - 1999"
An eight-year-old telling his elder sister what to do. And finally a girl explaining in Marathi what it is, and said, "There's a processor inside."
He started experimenting with other subjects, There's one community of children in southern India whose English pronunciation is really bad, and they needed good pronunciation because that would improve their jobs. He has given text to write and "Keep talking into it until it types what you say." They did that. He has elaborated ideas about different languages and different places, how the students are using different methods of learning and actually they are learning through technology very fast.
Video 3: Sugata Mitra: Future of Learning
He started with the question : What is the future of learning? The teacher as the “Sage on the Stage” and the book as the ultimate authority was how the world should be. The teacher is the fount of all knowledge. Now students are more involved in setting the course and pace of their learning. Some examples of this are project based learning programs and inquiry based learning programs.
The above mentioned teaching and learning models: they emphasize reaching beyond the classroom and giving students more control to develop their innate curiosity, creativity and find the answers themselves. Mitra’s premise is that schools are still operating on a 19th century factory model designed to spit out workers with the same skills. He encourages teachers and parents to break free of that model and do a better job at sparking children’s curiosity and agency.Mitra has launched a SOLE toolkit to help parents and teachers do that.
Video 4:Salman Khan: Let's use video to reinvent education
In this TEDTalk Salman Khan, the founder of the Khan Academy, talks about 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 — give students video lectures to watch at home, and do "homework" in the classroom with the teacher as a facilitator, coach and mentor.
Video 5: Marc Prensky: Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants
As proclaimed by Prensky, people who were not born in the digital era and later adopted the new technology are named as “digital immigrants” whereas people who were born during or after the digital era are dubbed “digital natives”. Digital era begins in 1980. As such, based on Prensky’s definition, the adults aged 40 and above were categorised as “digital immigrants”.
He said that “Is it just that I’m getting older? I find myself having trouble keeping up with technology… I have been swamped with the choice and variety of technology.” They possibly learn it all. Sometimes we can’t even learn the ones that might actually be helpful to us. Middle-aged adults are digital immigrants. The way they perceive technology is different from a digital native. How different they are? Because there is the difference.
Video 6: David Crystal: The Effect of New Technologies on English:
Video 7: David Crystal: The Biggest Challenge for English Language Teachers in the times of Internet:
Video 8: David Crystal: Texting is 'Good' for English Language
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