At a recent discussion on Learning innovations, the favourite topic turned out to be eLearning. What was interesting though was the attempt by more than one speaker to capture the classroom experience and bring it online. The lecture was largely attended by lecturers – mostly the arts and science colleges. It seemed like the whole discussion, for them, was zillions of miles away from their reality.
In an era where the student is perhaps more clued in to what’s happening around the world, the teacher will look woefully out-dated. They seem quite out of touch with the progress that’s happening in their own sphere of competence. This is one instance where the old adage “Content is King” has been dethroned. The new era demands that the teacher is able to reinvent himself and create pedagogical constructs that puts the content in the right context.
“Koshwan Acharya” (The one with the book is the teacher) is out. Google has replaced the book. The teacher will have to become a facilitator – bringing the appropriate pedagogy into play to make the content relevant and transform it into knowledge.
On a related note, ( pkmadhu's post) talks about the huge opportunity in the content development space. For this to become a really huge opportunity, I think the learning context needs to change. Can Kindle replace today’s textbooks? Is that again the right approach. IMHO, that again is just one more way of recreating the old paradigm in the new world.
If the Gutenberg press was in a big way responsible for changing teaching methods, moving it away from the spoken word to the written and read medium, and in the process also making it available to the masses (and not restricted to the elite few), I wonder what will drive the next revolution in teaching.
Any bold predictions?
4 comments:
Excellant thoughts - it got my mind working.
I do agree that the current teaching methods need a dramatic ramp up, else the new gen students will end up with little or no interest for formal education. I personally have not pursued any education in the recent past as I find it completely boring to sit in a class which has nothing new or exciting to provide to my hungry mind.
I hope that the teaching methods will be completely revolutionised and that teaching as a profession will be elevated to that of a highly esteemed one, which it truly deserves. (Subject to conditions :-) )
But who will bell the cat? :-)
Teaching is chosen as a profession in India when there are not much alternatives elsewhere. There are very few people with a passion for teaching. It is the other aspects of the profession that make it particularly appealing; the pay(if the appointment by UGC), the number of actual working days and unquestionable power over the hapless students. Therefore unless it is a premier institution( and even then )one cannot expect much.
It is the board that has to wake up to the new teaching methods and the teachers will follow.
There has to be something in it for the teacher either monetary or esteem for him to get acquainted with these methods.
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