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Thinking Activity: Education & Technology

Video-1: Changing paradigms by Ken Robinson

This first video starts with this line How do we educate our children to take their place in the economies of the 21st century? Economic, culture identity, globalization, economic circumstances and industrial revolution they all are discussed in this video. The current system was designed and conceived for a different age. 

Video- 2 & 3: Sugata Mitra on SOLE and Future Learning
What is the future of learning? Schools, as we know them are obsolete; schools are not broken, the education system is not broken, it's wonderfully established.
These are points Sugata Mitra discussed in both videos.
-) He invented the School in the Cloud
-) He’s the guy who put a computer in a hole in the wall in India
-) He wants to get rid of teachers
-) He thinks children can learn all they need from computers.

Video- 4: Let's use video to reinvent education by Salman Khan
In this video Salman Khan talks about why and how created the remarkable Khan Academy, a carefully structured series of educational videos. He shows the power of interactive calls and exercises for teachers to consider converting the traditional classroom notes- gives students video lectures to watch at the classroom or home. 

Video- 5: Audio track by Marc Prensky on Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants.
In this video, Prensky talk on Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants. Both are often used to describe the digital gap in terms of the ability of technology use among people born from 1980 onward and those born before. The term digital native describes a person who has grown up in the digital age, rather than having acquired understanding with digital systems as an adult, as a digital immigrant.

Video- 6,7 & 8: Influence of technology on the English language by David Crystal
In these videos, David Crystal, talking about how new technologies have an effect on English today.  Technologies influence the English language quite specific ways obvious example are shows messaging like twitting or text messaging or Facebook or many kinds of ways. The teachers of English have always taught RP English as a standard variety. ‘For the teachers, it is important to show respect to RP’ argues David Crystal (2013). The difficulties experienced by students range from pronunciation differences, vocabulary differences to grammar and cultural background issues. The existence of so many varieties will pose teaching problems, and influence the way English is taught.. Thus the purpose of the study was to discuss some reasons that would account for the mismatch between classroom English and the everyday, informal, language practice of native speakers, and to suggest ways of battling this.

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