Teaching and Learning in ICT for Teachers’ Education----An International conference on CONTEMPORARY RESEARCH IN ENGLISH STUDIES: GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE

An International conference on

CONTEMPORARY RESEARCH IN ENGLISH STUDIES: GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE

Feb.4-6, 2016

Organized by

The global association of English studies,

Anand, Gujarat, India.

Teaching and Learning in ICT for Teachers’ Education

Presented by

BHUNGANI CHINTAVANKUMAR N.

M.A. (English)

Smt. S. B. GARDI DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH

MAHARAJA KRUSHANAKUMARSINHJI BHAVNAGAR UNIVERSITY

Abstract

New era of education has started. In education field, teachers need to be the main agent of change. Teachers should adopt innovative style of teaching than And than one can change the traditional trends of teaching and learning.

So the present research paper focuses on Teachers’ Education in new era of education with ICT tools in education field. These days virtual classroom is most important for 21^st century education. Social media is very useful in new teaching and learning. Social applications like Google search engine, Facebook, Gmail, G+, blogger, Slideshare, What’s App and many more. These all applications are used by teachers for better and effective education.

Since the human existence on the earth, it was the prime need of food shelter and then education. In past Tradition of teaching is teacher gave knowledge from books and also own experience of life but in present time it was not enough for students so they can using ICT tools for learning or teaching. So now is the time of changing this old system of ‘teaching with books’. Now we have to change the book with computer or mobile phones and teachers place is taken by technology. But the real question is can technology replace a teacher? Yes nowadays it is possible and some students learn themselves with technology and best example of this concept is F.A.L.T.U. movie by Remo d'souza. In this movie, the same idea of how students use technology in teaching field for effective learning is displayed because audio and video visual tools are more effective. So ICT through education is possible but there are merits and demerits because when we use Technology, there are good things as well as bad things are also there. In education in India poverty is a big issue. Majority of illiteracy is the result of Poverty and therefore perhaps Government of India has made an act of Right to Education.

Teaching and Learning in ICT for Teachers’ Education

- CHINTAVANKUMAR N BHUNGANI

Teaching and Learning has developed with tremendous change with the expansion of science and technology, new era of education has started. The present research paper will throw light on how social media can be used for teaching and learning. As per the interest of the generation next which is Techno-Savvy and smart user of technology. They use technology for teaching as well as learning. The present paper is a case study of how social media is used by new generation.

KEY WORDS: social media, Online Education, Pedagogy, E-learning, M-learning

❖ What is an education?

Our government’s definition of education is only who can speaking, reading and writing it is education but education is beyond this .education is to get knowledge and give knowledge so it’s two way communication with teachers and students. And also experience of life, observation, and developed skills.

Various styles of teaching and learning:-

❖ Formal Education :-

Usually formal education is taken place in school environments with classroom of multiple students learning together with trained teachers but here we can see that from different methods of education with ICT tools, new style of teaching and learning without teachers and with teachers.

❖ Informal learning:-

Informal education does not take place only on school but occurs in verity of places. Learning outside from text Students learning at home with online sources. So now a day’s informal education is important for new generation so teachers work is guide a right path and change the style of teaching and developed new methods.

Traditional classroom	Virtual classroom
Whole schedule is not fixed .only time is fixed but not who’s lectures is not fixed.	Schedule can be decided by teacher and students and get massage individual through What’s App, Facebook, and Gmail.
Teaching methodology is only reading some books using black board.	Teachers have come with effective learning tools and engage learners in virtual classroom allow more freedom to students create new experiment gave new idea with smart technology.
Teachers and students using only physical example.	But in virtual classroom teachers use a video, audio, or power point presentation for out of the text example.
If students forget to note some important point so they have missed it.	But in virtual classroom we can recording class with audio or video form.
Teacher can take a quiz only in classroom with handwritten paper and this all are take more time check a paper create result.	Teachers using a online quiz tools and generating result at anytime anywhere and share chart of marks.
Classroom needs more paper work so it’s not eco friendly.	Virtual classroom is eco friendly because save papers and all students have soft copy. (Banerjee)

· Old school or new school? Teach future skills and traditional subjects together:-

There has been a high profile debate recently about the merits of teaching through ICT. In a traditional classroom and virtual classroom is far different but connected with each other because both are plate form of teaching and learning. So we can understand each one by one in detail how and who is best teaching methods in 21^st century.

ICT has become a part and parcel of life. The discoveries and inventions in Science and Technology have improved the speed of communication. By making use of available tools, ICT is helping common people to fulfill his needs. It has become integral part of new era.

7 Ways Teachers Use Social Media in the Classroom

1. Encourage students to share work socially.

In online tutoring, the students and tutors log on through the use of internet at home. The students ask the question and teacher replies it by writing on smart board or using power point presentation. Learning process can be anywhere and anytime.

· Teachers are sharing in-classroom tweets with parents.

· YouTube enables anyone to flip their classroom.

· Students share their life experiences with the class using Facebook , What’s App, G+ .etc.

· Students react to homework and lessons by blogging

· Students manage their project-based learning using Interest

· Classrooms connect over Skype using projectors

· A classroom full of students can create the ultimate guide to just about anything using wikis. (fee)

2. Use a hash tag to facilitate guest speaker discussions.

Now a day’s millennial use Twitter as their primary source for finding news. Encouraging students to engage with guest speakers via Twitter makes them more engaged with the platform and prepares them to raise important questions online.

3. Require students to keep a blog.

In social media blogger application is one and only app that provides facility to teachers and students share his or her views about any topic. Teacher gives the task to students share your views about this or this book or movie. And students start comment in his or her personal blog. In blogger we can share photos and videos and also share link so this is a part of e-learning methodology. Through blog we can group discussion in anywhere anytime.

Here are some images given below of Smt. S. B. Gardi Department of English Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University students’ blogs for submission of their assignment or presentation. So all the class read individual students assignment or gave review in comment box teacher also gave feedback on comment box. If any error find in assignment so teacher mention to comment and student edit anytime their assignment.

4. Required original expert sources.

If we can find anything in internet so we have to looking for original expert sources so Wikipedia, encyclopedia this type of online sites help in finding original sources about anything authentic text about any subject.

5. Use G+ community TEACHERS CAN USE GOOGLE+ HANGOUTS:- Whether you teach online classes or just love bringing social media and technology into the classroom, Google offers up some amazing tools to help you get students thinking, learning, connecting, and sharing. One of the newest, and perhaps the coolest, additions to Google’s suite of online tools is the recently updated Google+ Hangouts. Through Hangouts, up to ten users can video conference at once, and the service is easily connected to existing Google+ circles, offering up a whole host of exciting ways teachers can make use of it for educational applications.

If you haven’t tried out Google+ Hangouts yet, take the time to learn more about it and consider some of these amazing ways you can use it to add to your existing curriculum and make class time easier, more fun and a more rewarding experience for you and your students alike.

6) FACILITATING GROUP PROJECTS AFTER SCHOOL HOURS.

If students need help after class hours or just some support while working on group projects, Google+ Hangouts can be an excellent way to offer it without having to even leave the house. Once students know how to use it, they may even want to meet up on their own, making working together a whole lot less stressful. Students can share what they’ve completed through Google Docs as well.

7) Create a social classroom by using social apps like Gmail, what’s app or Slideshare.

What is a Virtual Classroom?

“A Virtual Classroom is an online classroom that allows participants to communicate, view presentations, interact with learning resources and work in groups”. (Queensland)

So through this amazing app like Gmail, What’s App and Slideshare teacher and students communicate anywhere anytime. If all students have an account in Gmail so teacher can create Google group and share daily scheduled time table, any kind of information of academic purpose can be shared in Google Group so all the students get information in personal mail. Through Gmail id we can sign up in any social media because Gmail is very famous and all the persons use so all big app is provide to we can sign up through mail id. Here are some images of Gmail. How teachers use for learning and teaching this.

Now a day’s WhatsApp is one of most famous and great application for communication .by this app we can create a group of college class and teachers are share his or her timetable in advance. Also one share photos and videos of academic activates and such real good information about anything. One can also use broadcast group for sending personal and same messages to group members. So what’s App is one of the popular social application and one can make positive use of this system. Here are some photos of what’s App chat example of proper use for learning and academic communication by teacher and students.

Slideshare is also very great app for sending ppt in Slideshare. So one can share any type of PowerPoint presentation so in Department of English MK Bhavnagar University utilize this Application for sending their presentation of viva or any other type of PPTs for Teachers and Students. Here is an image of student of department of English with presentation on Slideshare.

In this 21^st centaury students and teacher use audio video tools for effective learning such as some movies part or advertisement so it's very effective teaching and create interest in boring subject. Some videos also help in imagination of text. Here is the example of F.A.L.T.U movie, in this movie student’s start learning through the video of some good teacher, director, actor, designer, photographer and more so students make effective learning by audio and video visualization (Jackky Bhagnani)

Answering students’ questions about homework and projects:-

Students often make excuses about not doing homework because they say they can’t figure it out when they’re home alone. Well, no more. Teachers of all kinds can offer support to students who need it through Google+ Hangouts. Students can show what they’ve completed and teachers can help them by offering guidance, input, or access to lessons.

The founder of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg says that about Facebook

“Find that thing you are passionate about a lot of founding principles of Facebook are that if people have access to more information and are more connected, its well make the world better; people will have more understanding more empathy. That’s the guiding principle for me on hard days I really just step back, and that’s the things that keep me going” (Zuckerberg)

Facebook case study Merits of use the Facebook in education:-

Users of Facebook in all the world 864 million daily active users and average for (September 2014)

1) Effective use of Facebook with your student:-

a) Related, friendly and inventing atmosphere which encourages student’s participation engagement.

b) Facebook can promote collaboration social inter images between participation.

2) Facebook tips for teachers:-

a) Teachers should create a separate account just for their classes and the option like, comments, tag, share etc,

b) You should teach students about netiquette protocol.

3) Way teachers can use Facebook for learning:-

Create a group for your class and strengthen the communication between you and your students here example how to use Facebook for college assignment submission in anytime, anyplace through the Facebook group.

Department of English:-Here the image of Facebook page shows how the group study and submit the assignment in Facebook through Slideshare and blog.

4) What are the benefits to create a Facebook account:-

Create a Facebook account need a email id so students learn and use email and it's used in education

➢ after creating Facebook account the students submit their assignments in written form so they need a WordPad and benefits use blog for text assignment submission

➢ Students create and share PPTs

4) Like or comments:-

Comments made to the sharing even attracted our attention to much more. Comments affect members necessarily, comment must be encouraged formally contribution in the form of comment be include giving marks.

ü Editing in sent items:-

Any information share in page that is not right so anytime we can through the edit option make changes.

Learning through video:-

We can chat in social media essay so Facebook provide video chat face to face chatting and we can attended the conference with the help of video chat any time.

Demerits of Facebook use in education:-

Facebook privacy:-

One of the major concerns and disadvantage of the Facebook to do with Privacy is in the past it has created many buzz due to sudden change in Facebook privacy setting but now it’s simplified with password.

Fake Facebook profile divert students mind:-

Facebook is full of fake profile of girls and boys. You will find lots of fake profile with images of beautiful girls.

➢ Bad comments:-

We can post a different malicious word to anyone .we can upload a scandals photos or videos to anyone without thinks. We cannot stop people from visiting their Facebook ID especially students and that’s the reality, but we can be part of the solution let us be responsible enough in using our time, let us not waste nor abuse it.

· Social Media Survey By Smt. S. B. Gardi Department Of English Maharaja Krushanakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University

Ø How many students using social media for learning and teaching before join this institute and after joining how many increase using social media.

Here some real data of students studying in department of English. Through online quiz ask some questions about social media and before a student’s of department how many students use technology in teaching- learning process, and after how many number of users increases? So in this survey 105 students appear on this online survey. So above image is show the type of questions asks in survey and what’s the result out of 105 students responded. So in this chart we can see that first Colum is sign of yes and second is not .and also give percentages out of 100%. So through this survey teacher knows about how many students increases knowledge of technology in teaching- learning process and what’s the important in now days.

1) Do you use Slideshare.net or any other virtual platform for PowerPoint Sharing?

2) Are you using Facebook? If yes, please give the web link of your Facebook.

3) Are you blogging? If yes, please give the web link of your blog.

4) Do you use what’s app? If yes gave your number.

5) Do you use Google plus? Please give your URL (Web link) of your G+ page.

(barad)

(BARAD)

so teachers use online form for survey or any kind of report make it easily in virtual class room .here we can Cleary se that the students department of English out of 100% students 95% using social media for learning and teaching. This is good thing and possible because of college professor awareness about Ict through teaching is need of 21^st century.

So teaching and learning through ICT is it possible? Yes it is possible in 21^st century .but if teachers are knows about positive use of technology in education. So in this research paper I have to trying out with example of some institutes using this technology for modern education. In ICT is various types of methods for teaching and learning like (E-learning, E-testing, M-learning-M-testing, E-teaching) so all this braches of ICT is very interesting and useful in new era of education. So in India common people needs this verity of education. If we all have think positive and positively use technology in right path so it is possible that after some years our Prime Minister Narendra Modi dream come true digital India, make In India, e-governance, e-commerce ECT. So change the education with new technology system and make aware about new era of education.

“In this digital age, we have an opportunity to transform to lives of people in ways that was hard to imagine to couple of decades ago”

- Narendra Modi

Works Cited

1)BARAD, DR.DILIP. Social Media Survey 2014-16 and 2015-17 Batches. online social media survey,https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1t4fBMR33WdynceRXgeH6iYRExjySgsuu5XaPUKooydU/viewform?c=0&w=1&usp=send_form. bhavnagar: DR.DILIP BARAD, 2016.

2) barad, dr.dilip. Mind Mapping Test for students enrolling in Sem 1 in July 2015. questionaries .https://docs.google.com/forms/d/15Wza3Kgi8rIeZM28bxNqhyPKpfbNSDBAhZ2qUOuJLv8/viewform?c=0&w=1. bhavnagar: dr.dilip barad, 2015.

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