Use of ICT in Teacher Education

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Use of ict in Teacher Education

• Dr. Jagannath K. Dange
• Department of Education
• Kuvempu University
• Shankaraghatta
• Dist Shimoga,
• Karnataka
• jkdange_at_gmail.com
• http//jkdange.blogspot.com

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• The National Knowledge Commission (NKC) has
  observed that teachers are the single most
  important element of the education system and the
  country is already facing a severe shortage of
  qualified and motivated teachers at different
  levels.
• The training of teachers is a major area of
  concern at present as both pre-service and
  in-service training of teachers are extremely
  inadequate and poorly managed in most states.
• Pre-service training needs to be improved and
  differently regulated both in public and private
  institutions.

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• Pre-service training needs to be improved and
  differently regulated both in public and private
  institutions, NCTFE 2009 emphasised ICT in
  schooling as well as e-learning became centre
  stage in the frame work.
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• ICT has become an integral part of todays
  teaching learning process.
• Countries across the world are using ICT in
  facilitating information dissemination and
  communication in all areas of education and
  training.
• Effective use of technology can motivate
  students, make our classes more dynamic and
  interesting, and renew teacher enthusiasm as they
  learn new skills and techniques. Technology is
  also helping the students to understand any
  abstract concepts clearly.

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• The integration of ICTs in teaching in general
  and teacher education in particular is the need
  of the day. The use of ICTs can make substantial
  changes both for teaching and training mainly in
  two ways.
• Firstly, the rich representation of information
  changes learners perception and understanding of
  the context.
• Secondly, the vast distribution and easy access
  to information can change relationships between
  teachers and taught. ICTs can also provide
  powerful support for educational innovation.

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Teacher Education Reform Context and Concerns

• Time is not sufficient most of the teacher
  educators felt that comprehensive Experiences
  cant be given in the one year duration of
  teacher training course and was very difficult to
  imbibe skills and aptitude. It was also opined
  there was a mismatch between the training student
  teachers get in the colleges with the real
  teaching Experience they had in the regular
  classrooms.
• On supportive to the above statements the
  Honourable Justice Verma committee proposed to
  have 2 years B.Ed. course and NCTE has suggested
  to have the Blend of technology (ICT) with all
  subjects and Experiences of training.

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• Why do we need ICT?
• The face of classroom is changing. The teachers
  should prepare to keep up with technology utility
  in the classroom. ICT is not only an essential
  tool for teachers in their day to day work, but
  also offers them opportunities for their own
  professional development.
• In conventional teaching most of the time is
  consumed for the input output and less time left
  for the process. But in teaching with ICT the
  input and output time is reduced and process time
  is increased. When the process time is increased,
  time of students activities, discussion,
  correlation with other subjects, brainstorming
  and learning etc will increase.

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Approaches of ICT

• approaches to ICT which can be used in the
  classroom
• 1.Integrated approach This aims at planning the
  use of ICT within the subject to enhance
  particular concepts and skills and improve
  pupils achievement. This involves, Selecting the
  suitable ICT resources which will contribute to
  the aims and objectives of the curriculum.
• 2.Enhancement Approach this focus on the use of
  an ICT resource will enhance the existing subject
  matter through some aspects of the lessons and
  tasks. Eg. Using an electronic whiteboard for
  presenting a theory about a topic.
• 3.Complementary approach This aims at using an
  ICT resource to empower the students learning,
  Eg. By enabling them to improve their class work
  by taking notes on the computer or by sending
  home work by email to the teacher from home.

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• To effectively harness the power of the new
  information and communication technologies (ICTs)
  to improve learning, the following essential
  conditions must be met
• Students and teachers must have sufficient access
  to digital technologies and the Internet in their
  classrooms, schools, and teacher education
  institutions.
• High quality, meaningful, and culturally
  responsive digital content must be available for
  teachers and learners.
• Teachers must have the knowledge and skills to
  use the new digital tools and resources to help
  all students achieve high academic standards.

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Phases for implementing ICT in the classroom

• 1. ICT literacy
• 2.The effective and efficient use of ICT hardware
  and software for teaching learning activities.
• 3. Pedagogy based ICT use(Integration of ICT in
  subject content, teaching, online support,
  networking and management)
• 4. Adopt best innovative practices in the use of
  ICT.

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• ICT and e-learning Explosive upcoming of ICT
• Computers, Networks Internet and the Web, mobile
  phone, tablets,
• E-learning, and on-line learning.
• Lesson plan-correction- mail,
• Discussion groups,
• Blogs-creation and discussion, Guidance.
• Website-create and post important events-test,
  scores and programs,
• Internet-Google free Books, articles, reports,
  theses, projects.
• Google videos- learning theories, discussions,
  conference discourses.
• Micro teaching skills- record and make
  repositories.
• Mobile phone-SMS-free sms.com,way2sms.com
  whatsapp, hike.com, telegram
• Facebook, Tweeter
• Slideshare.com, freeshare.com
• Radio and TV lessons
• E-gyankosh, e-content repositories.
• IGNOU-content, NCERT, NCTE, UGC, DSERT- websites.
• Virtual classroom, smartboards-whiteboards

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• MOOCs (Massive Open online Courses)
• MOOCs are recent development that is reshaping
  the trend of higher education on the web. It
  represents an emerging methodology of online
  teaching, based on the philosophy of
  connectivism. Massive refers to the large
  number of students can be engaged in online
  course, and its Openness is associated with
  software used registration to anyone who has
  access to web, open curriculum, learning
  resources and evaluation.
• MOOC providers USA (Coursera, EdX, Udacity),
  Ireland(ALISON), Germany(iversity), Australia
  open2study), Japan(schoo), FutureLearn, open
  courseware, OpenUpEd, KHANACADEMY, educa,
  saylor.org, MOOC2DEGREE, NovoED, Canvas network,
  Neodemia, World Education University(WEU),
  Stanford Online, Eliedemy, EURODL,CLASS CENTRAL,
  edSurge, EFQUEL, Commonwealth of Learning,
  Minglebox, Swayam etc

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• E-journals www.e-journals,org/ ,
  http//www.sciencedirect.com/, www.doaj.org
• Open education Resources for Teacher Educators,
  Teachers and Learners
• Geogebra, Google Earth, Hot potato, C-map,
  R-campus, Mahara, Moodle and wiki-spaces,
  classroom-2.0, Visual field trips, statistical
  tools and web conferencing.
• Reduce the hard work make to work smartly.
• What we require is teacher with blend of
  education principles, educational software. -
  Computer teacher at B.ED. Colleges.

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• Own Experiences
• Effectiveness of mobile learning approach in the
  development of Teaching skills, vocabulary and
  mobile phone usage among student teachers.
• The research was carried out to find the
  effectiveness of learning through mobile phones
  in teacher training institutes first time in
  India, funded by University Grants Commission.
• Experimental method was used.

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• Being a member of curriculum development
  committee constituted by Higher Education council
  of Karnataka.
• Developed curriculum for two year B.Ed. course of
  Karnataka state, maintaining the blend of
  technology with all subjects.
• The two samples of courses prepared are as
  follows,

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• Perceptions of Educational Technology
• Learning Activities
• 1. Visit websites (Khans academy, E-Gyankosh,
  Shodhaganga, NCTE, NCERT, DSERT, UGC) Collecting
  Documents like Polices, plans, statistics,
  scholarships, issue and trends and writing
  reports.
• 2. Free website development and usage (Webs.com)
• 3. Recording- Audio/Video lectures discussions,
  and presentations etc, editing and writing report
  on procedures.
• 4. CAI- Development and reporting
• 5. Mobile learning- related activities like use
  of blue tooth, SMS, MMS and other features.
• 6. Blog- development and related activities
• 7. Login in to You tube-download and upload.
• 8. Writing a report on TV Lessons and
  discussions
• 9. Writing a report on Radio lessons and
  discussion.
• 10. List out the content related different
  learning experiences
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• Course for lab work ICT
• Activities
• 1. Prepare the printed teaching materials using
  the MS-Word (In any subject -Any unit to be
  selected, in any language).Use of self-learning
  materials for the anyone unit by using ICT.
• 2. Prepare the result sheet in MS-Excel showing
  the subject wise marks, total marks, percentage
  Rank, pass or fail, Graphical presentation
• 3. Preparation of PPT slides (at least 10) for
  classroom usage.
• 4. Create an e-mail-id and google account and
  exchange learning related information.
• 5. Downloading Anti-virus software through
  internet and installing to the system.
• 6. Browse the search engines and download the
  relevant materials /information.
• 7. Prepare a list of Educational websites,
  Reference Books, Research papers etc that are
  useful in Education.
• 8. Prepare the submission of core papers with the
  help of ICT. (Anyone Topic from Anyone Subject)
• 9. Survey of educational sites based in India
• 10. Use of available software or CDs with LCD
  projection for subject learning interactions

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• 11. Generating subject-related demonstrations
  using computer software
• 12. Enabling students to plan and execute
  projects (using computer based research)
• 13. Interactive use of ICT Participation in
  Yahoo groups, creation of 'blogs', etc
• 14. Collection of e-resources and Reporting.
  (Text-Books, Articles, Reports, Theses Audio and
  Video Files related to educational technology)
• 15. Critical review of UNESCO ICT Competency
  standards for Teachers-2008
• 16. Write a report on INSAT programs.
• 17. Developing Educational blog in
  www.blogger.com www.wordpress.com
• 18. Develop the news groups and report.
• 19. Creating an Account in Teacher
  tube/slideshare and sharing your
  video/powerpoint 

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Technology use for teachers and students

• Encourage contacts between students and teachers
  especially those students who were unwilling to
  speak out in face to face classroom settings.
• Develop reciprocity and co-operation among
  students for the benefit of peer learning.
• Active learning techniques make learners active.
• Give necessary prompt feedback.
• Emphasize time on task.
• Communicate high expectations.
• Respect diverse talents and ways of learning.

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• The Stanford centre for innovations in
  learning(SCIL) Effective teacher includes being
• Concerned
• Committed
• Creative
• Competent
• An educational system can be as good as its
  teachers
• Who is a teacher?
• One who dares to teach and never cease to learn

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Thank You
Dr. Jagannath K. Dange Department of
Education Kuvempu University Shankaraghatta Dist
Shimoga, Karnataka jkdange_at_gmail.com http//jkda
nge.blogspot.com