Building 21st Century Skills in the Era of Digitalization: Teacher Education and its Role
Amalesh Mondal
Ph.D. Scholar, School of Education, Pondicherry University, Puducherry
ABSTRACT
ICT have become commonplace entities in all aspects of life. Across the past twenty years the use of ICT has fundamentally transformed the practices and procedures of nearly all forms of exertion within business and governance. Education is a very socially focused activity and quality education has traditionally been connected with strong teachers having high degrees of personal contact with learners. The use of ICT in education lends itself to more student-centred learning settings. But with the world moving swiftly into digital media and information, the role of ICT in education is becoming more and more essential and this importance will continue to grow and develop in the 21st century.
Introduction Digital Era is also known as ‘Information Age’, or ‘New Media Age’. Digital Era helps to create knowledge based society surrounded by high technology which helps individuals to explore their personal needs. In the present scenario, Digital Technologies play a key role in the teaching and learning process. The rapid technological developments have helped the teacher to achieve professional development. Technology has the power to transform the teaching learning process. Technologies nowadays are helping the teachers to use the educational
Throughout this course, a new perspective has provided us with the opportunity to take a look at many of the different ways in which the digital world has become one of the most dominant viewpoints of today’s generation, and how technology has taken over and welcomed itself into many aspects of our lives. This course paper will take a look at one topic of interest in particular, which in hopes will shed some light on a heavily discussed topic in the education world: does technology help or hinder the student. This paper will look to prove the point and discover more about the way in which technology has been incorporated into the classroom, both in an elementary context as well as a post-secondary context, and the effects that it has had on the student, the teacher, and the overall academic development that accompanies it.
Information communication technology (ICT) helps to learn theoretic development discoveries, treatment and support techniques for education and curriculum. It gives teachers, higher level teaching assistant (HLTA) and children access to educational resources from around the globe anytime and day. While using ICT, children learn concepts, history, ideas, theories and practices across culture when it is use in their classroom. HLTA and teachers however have to know how and why they are using ICT and incorporate the concepts in: social responsibility, creativity, communication, culture sensitivity, decision making technology application and usage. According to Andrews et al. (2006, p.5) “ICT has been defined as including stand-alone computers, networked technologies with a multimodal interface, mobile phones with the capacity for a range of types of communication, and other technologies that allow multimodal and interactive communication.”
A modernized education is imperative because students learn better with the use of technology. In order to succeed in the field of education, students must have a sense of today’s fast paced society. With the use of advanced technology in the classroom, students will be able to apply acquired material to the real world. While the old ways of teaching
Mann, who is professor of Western University, wrote an article Let’s Unplug the Digital Classroom, said that a variety of technology machinery should be avoided from in our classroom because those digital technologies disturb the our traditional learning skills (Mann, 2012). He described new environment of education in present day that more and more people, who are both professors and students, do communicate through the modern technologies rather than before. However, he taught that we must stop of utilizing the digital machine in school due to the decreasing of the people abilities. In reality, most student and even teachers use it too much time and cases for personal communication and processed with class. In addition, there are the most
In education: technology has change the way teacher teaches and how students learn. Technology has been proven to put teachers in a better position in monitoring and tracking their student’s progress and achievements. For example, the use of technology has made it possible for University of People to be in existence. Without technology we will not be here today discussing about its impact on
The leaders in education need to be informed to ICT possible benefits with the leader’s dangers and be active in lecturing them, from now ICT literacy development provides an appropriate venue for this. The development of an ICT addition model in schools is valuable for stakeholders in education to evaluate technology training for school leaders and create opportunities for principals to acquire ICT integration skills. (Selwood, 2003) said that when school leaders allow technology integration through vision and knowledge, schools can improve in instructional technology, which can lead to greater student achievement and better preparation for a technological society. (Bonifaz & Zucker, 2004) said that teaching students with laptops establishes a different environment than traditional classrooms and requires the teacher to have ICT knowledge and skills, effective ICT teaching strategies, effective classroom management as well as technical support. In a school setting, likewide (Cuban, 2001) said that ICT requires additional time and effort to utilize, and consequently may be used less frequently. (Abuzaid & Singh, 2008, Al-Jarf, 2007, Bauer & Kenton, 2005) said that this part introduces the conceptualized of ICT in education. (Fitzallen, 2004) said that attention is increasingly directed at the border of the questions merging
ICT has become one of the most common resources in daily life. ICT has transformed the way people communicate and learn in almost every aspect of modern life for education (Higgins, 2007). Many countries have recognised ICT as a core part of education, along with writing and reading (Amin, 2008). The term ICT has had misconceptions that ICT refers to computers only, in circumstance this is incorrect. According to Pelgrum and Law (2003) during the 1980’s the word computers was given the title of IT (information technology), this demonstrated a shift of focus from computing technology to the ability to store and recover data. The term ICT was then introduced in 1992 (Pelgrum and Law, 2003).
The author of the article “Benefits of Technology in the Classroom” is, Janelle cox an educational writer, who has 15 years of professional experience and knowledge in the education system in the online learning environment. As a trained educational professional, she uses her experience and knowledge to provide creative and original writing in the field of education.The authors main idea in this article is that technology is moving through the 21st century classroom and becoming more and more predominant, this widespread of technology has completely changed how teachers teach and students learn. Educators also recognize the importance of developing these technological skills in students so they will be prepared to enter the workforce once they
It is imperative that schools and colleges be up-to-date with the latest technology in order to meet the needs of the digital natives. Although there may be some technological difficulties at times, such as internet failure, technology is a way to gather information right at your fingertips. No longer do we have to rely on encyclopedias because everything one would need is online and readily accessible. By incorporating technology into the schools and colleges teachers are able to meet the students on the level in which they are eager to
he technical advances of the last thirty years and the introduction of the internet, globalisation has made the world a smaller place and Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has become increasingly important part of everyday life. Today, it is reported that over eighty percent of households have a personal computer (PC), with sixty eight percent Internet enabled. (Marketresearch.com, 17/05/09) Subsequently, government has recognised the need to reflect this increasing use of technology by ensuring that ICT is to enable children to participate fully in the rapidly developing technological world around them, whilst in others it is the need for children to be competent
The technology has impacted the every aspect of life in these days. The advances in the new technology have improved the life and make it easier to perform the jobs. Back then, there were many jobs which do not require the use of technology, but nowadays every job requires the skills to use the technology. Furthermore, the technology is being used in various forms such as smartphone devices, tablets, laptops, and other online sources. Nowadays, the technology is making people more independent and providing the great benefits. People can perform daily tasks with the help of new electronics devices which save a lot of time. Moreover, the latest technology has shown the significant improvement in the teaching methods and the students learning
It is clear that technology has provided a number of benefits to modern education. From digital texts to digital classes, technologies advantages have been gladly accepted by students and schools alike. Nonetheless, to say these advantages make physical texts and classroom based courses obsolete is far from the truth. Though useful as an occasional alternative, and as a supplement, digital education has not surpassed the need for its tangible
With the rapid rise of technological developments and advancements, it brings to question does the use of this technology help with learning in the classroom? This simple question moves past simple yes or no and, if used, should constantly be monitored to ensure the technology is relevant, meeting students’ needs as well as teacher’s objectives. In order to provide the best experience in the classroom today’s teacher must be aware of and incorporate technology into their personal educational philosophies and pedagogy. A fact which seems so simple yet has been difficult at best as many established teachers evolve their pedagogy at the speed of glacier melting. Technology itself has great bearing on today’s society and relationships
It is crucial that students are not just being educated in only one way. Each child is different; as a result, learning styles should be versatile and open to new strategies. By learning to use technology correctly, teachers are preparing themselves, and the students for the future by developing certain skills that will be essential in the 21st century. Besides developing the students’ technology skills, students will
This essay will explore the role of teaching, the purpose of schooling and the use of technology in the Digital Age with a focus on the implications the Digital Age has on teachers, teaching and the use of technology in schools. The Digital Age signifies the period since the 1970’s, which saw the change in the way we interact based on information computerization and saw the prevalence of the high-tech global economy that surrounds a knowledge-based society (Wikipedia, 2014). This period saw the rapid increase of the technological capacity to store information (Wikipedia, 2014). Traditionally, schooling is defined as the transferring of knowledge and skills in a school environment (Merriam Webster, n.d.). Schooling additionally includes the social and cultural structures such as the organisation of time reflected in the school timetable, the role people assume within the school and the knowledge that makes up the curriculum (Selwyn, 2012). Along with the obvious processes of teaching, learning and communication, the processes of socialisation and regulation should also be considered when thinking about schooling (Selwyn, 2012). A person who teachers or instructs, especially in a school environment is referred to as a teacher (Merriam Webster, n.d.). The priority of the teacher should be to seize the opportunity for learning experiences (Creighton & Dickson, 1969). Society has always had high expectations of teachers as protectors, inspirers and critics (Creighton & Dickson,