by external means, accessories, media, etc. One who teaches also
learns.
Learning or understanding or acquiring skill is a very peculiar
phenomenon and it cannot be generalized or can catch in a formula or
standardized. This is so because the major issue lies in the fact
how does one resolve or translate coding (written material, videos,
virtual labs, cloud computing coding, books,, notes, etc.) into
self-experiencing. Self-experiencing is the key what we term as
knowledge or understanding. Teacher can connect his mind to
student's one, the dynamics of learning-teaching. Thus, need of a
teacher can be reduced drastically as seen in flipped class-room or
MOOC, but replacing teacher fully is fatal. No doubt, as one grows
he is more self-supported but at higher level one needs support.
From the last 15 years I am trying to understand the concept of
death but in vain. Logically I could not locate the element that
make a live man dead. Terms like physical death or brain death are
not understood by me as I am alive. Will I get a teacher (Guru)in a
real sense for this purpose?
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> A cloudy future for educationDate: May 22, 2014 Margie SheedyCould
computers do away with teachers and classrooms? Margie Sheedy
reports.Teachers will soon be obsolete, say the proponents of
computer-based learning. The schools of today will be a thing of the
past, replaced by schools in the virtual cloud. Children will learn
on their own, guided by nurturing mentors who won't need to be
educators.One of the most high-profile proponents of this line of
thought is Sugata Mitra. He caused a tidal wave of comment following
several TED web portal speeches entitled ''Kids can teach
themselves'',''The child-driven education''and''Build a school in
the cloud''.His hypothesis is that children can learn without the
help of educators or schools. He has tested this in a series of
experiments with rural Indian kids, whereby they were given free
access to outdoor internet kiosks, which he calls ''Hole in the
Wall'' computers. The children, between the ages of five and 16,
took to the technology, teaching themselves basic computer literacy
with the help of non-educator mentors who simply gave them
encouragement.From this, Mitra hypothesises further: the future
could see schools and teachers, as we know them, ceasing to
exist.Professor Michael Jacobson, co-director of the Centre of
Computer Supported Learning and Cognition at the University of
Sydney, has heard this kind of talk before. ''Even back in the
1970s, people were saying computer-assisted instruction would
replace teachers,'' he says. ''Now it's the flipped classroom and
the cloud that will replace teachers.''Self-directed learning is the
concept that students can learn things on their own: that they'll
'just figure it out'.''The Indian kids [in Sugata Mitra's
experiments] learnt about computers by picking up factual
information and declarative knowledge. But this doesn't mean they
have a deeper understanding to solve creative problems.''It's naive
to think that kids will learn hard ideas, such as difficult
knowledge and skills, on their own. However, when they're supported
in a variety of ways, they can learn anything.'' He thinks that what
is often forgotten in this discussion is that computers are just
another way of transmitting knowledge. ''We know how people learn:
you have some ideas and you build on them and construct new
knowledge,'' he says. ''Good teachers facilitate this process. They
are absolutely essential.''To see if someone understands deeply,
they need to be given a new problem or concept and asked to solve
it. Students often call it a 'trick question' in a test or exam. If
you really understand it you will actually be able to work it
out.''For him, education is about helping students construct new and
deeper understandings of the world around them.''The technology
might be able to give them experiences of things they may not have
access to through information and videos,'' he suggests. ''For
example, we're working on virtual realities where biologists don't
have field trips: they do field work in the virtual world. They
collect data based on computational field work. ''The cloud is just
a way to put the information on a platform and then synchronise it.
It's a place to store your information that you can access from
different places. There's no way it's going to replace teachers.''
From the viewpoint of Dr Kirsty Young, who has a background in
special education and lectures at the University of Technology,
Sydney, the education sector will always need teachers.''I am a
great advocate of computer-mediated learning,'' she says. ''However,
the end is not nigh for teachers. There's a context that technology
needs to be placed in.''She thinks that there are two groups of
students. ''There are the learners that can learn independently and
learners who are not engaged or who have disabilities or have some
behavioural problems. ''The use of games, simulation and social
media is incredibly effective for the second group of students. It
can lead students to write with a real audience in a blog/social
media setting. ''While computers can give students with learning
difficulties the exposure over and again, if they don't understand
the basis of what they're doing - I don't think a computer is going
to go back and teach it in a different way.'' For students who have
trouble organising themselves and concentrating, ''the idea of
individual instruction is important for their learning,'' she says.
''But the bigger thing is monitoring their progress and filling the
gaps in their learning. This is where good teachers come into their
own.''Educate, Empower, ElevateProf. Bholanath DuttaFounder,
Convener & President
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