The Ministry of Education has renewed the Microsoft Schools Agreement through to the end of 2015. The agreement provides schools with unlimited access to the Windows operating system and Microsoft Office software for school-owned or leased devices, as well as unrestricted use of Windows Core Servers.
Evan Blackman, Microsoft Education Sector Manager, says the renewed Microsoft Schools Agreement gives schools certainty about what technology platforms are available to them, so that teachers and students can fully utilise the technology in their classrooms.
Pauline Barnes from the Ministry of Education agrees.
“The extension to December 2015 gives schools greater ability to make IT network management plans. It will support schools to access and provide modern digital teaching and learning environments.”
Schools can also use Microsoft’s Office365 cloud service at no cost. With cloud computing, students and teachers can access documents and software from anywhere with any device, irrespective of the software loaded onto the device. It also allows multiple students to work on the same documents at the same time, lending itself to online project work and collaboration between students in different classrooms, cities and countries.
Blackman says technology is now an integral part of the way teachers teach and students learn and is key to lifting academic achievement in New Zealand.
“E-learning is changing teaching and learning. With our suite of software and infrastructure almost any form of information sharing is possible. For example, rural schools will be able to organise lessons for their students taught via our video conferencing software, Lync. Equally, teachers will be able to share resources and work on lesson plans together.”
The company has also been travelling to schools around the country giving free seminars about how to enhance teaching, learning, and assessment with technology. To ensure that schools know how to upgrade to Windows 8 and Office 2013, Microsoft will be releasing a step by step Deployment Kit during Term 4, 2013.
The company has also been travelling to schools around the country giving free seminars about how to enhance teaching, learning, and assessment with technology. To make the upgrade to Windows 8 and Office 2013 as easy as possible, Microsoft has created a step by step Deployment Kit during Term 4, 2013.
“Technology should enable collaborative learning and give students access to amazing resources, not take educators away from the classroom to roll it out. So we’ve created a deployment kit that basically does the heavy lifting involved for schools in upgrading to Windows 8, “added Blackman.
Upgrading is particularly important for the schools still using XP software as after April next year, support for XP will be switched off. Schools still using XP will be vulnerable to viruses and over time will find new technology will not be compatible with XP.
Susan Aud of the National Center for Education Statistics, along with the American Institutes for Research have produced the 2013 edition of The Condition of Education 2013 for the National Center for Education Statistics (IES). Congress has mandated that an annual report be made on the trends in U.S. education for both K-12 and postsecondary education. By combining the latest data with the 42 indicators it is possible to create a report that can keep policymakers informed and the American public alert to the trends and conditions in U.S. education. Some of the highlights of this report:
In 2012, 90% of young adults ages 25 to 29 had a high school diploma or equivalent.
The average grade 4 reading score in 2011 was not measurably different from that in 2009.
At grades 4 and 8, the average mathematics scores in 2011 were higher than the average scores for those grades in all previous assessment years.
Young adults ages 25 to 29 with a college degree made twice as much as high school dropouts.
One in five elementary and secondary schools are considered high poverty. (75% qualify for free or reduced lunch). This is up from one in eight in the year 2000.
The key Indicators for K-12 education for 2013: Educational Attainment In 2012, some 33% of 25-29 year-olds had completed a bachelor’s degree or higher credential. The size of the White-Black gap in this educational level in 2012 was not measurably different from that in 1990, while the white-Hispanic gap widened from 18 to 25 percentage points. Children Living in Poverty In 2011, approximately 21 percent of school-age children in the United States were in families living in poverty. The percentage of school-age children living in poverty ranged across the United States from 9 percent in North Dakota to 30 percent in the District of Columbia. Public School Enrollment From school years 2010-2011 through 2021-22, public elementary and secondary school enrolment is projected to increase by 7% from 49.5 to 53.1 million students, but with changes across states ranging from an increase of 22 percent in Alaska to a decrease of 15% in the District of Columbia. Characteristics of Public Elementary and Secondary Schools In school year 2010-11, about 33% of traditional public schools were in rural areas, compared with 16% of charter schools. In contrast, 25% of traditional public schools were in cities, compared with 55% of charter schools. Concentration of Public School Students Eligible for Free or Reduced-Price Lunch In school year 2010-11, some 20 % of public school students attended a high-poverty school compared with 12 % in 1999-2000. In 2010-11, some 24 % of public school students attended a low-poverty school, compared with 45% in 1999-2000. Reading Performance The average grade 4 reading score in 2011 was not measurably different from that in 2009. The average grade 8 score, however, was 1 point higher in 2011 than in 2009. Mathematics Performance At grades 4 and 8, the average mathematics scores in 2011 were higher than the average scores for those grades in all previous assessment years. Reading and Mathematics Score Trend The average reading and mathematics scores on the long-term trend National Assessment of Educational Progress were higher in 2008 than in the early 1970s for 9- and 13-year olds; however, scores for 17-year-olds were not measurably different from the early 1970s. Public High School Graduation Rates In school year 2009-10, some 3.1 million public high school students, or 78.2%, graduated on time with a regular diploma Among all public high school students, Asian/Pacific Islanders had the higher graduation rate (93.5%), followed by Whites (83.0%), Hispanics (71.4%), American Indian/Alaska Natives (69.1%), and Blacks (66.1%). Other indicators included:
International Educational Attainment
Annual Earnings of Young Adults
Labor Force Participation and Unemployment Rates by Educational Attainment
Enrollment Trends by Age
Early Education and Child Care Arrangements of Young Children
Charter School Enrollment
Private School Enrollment
Racial/Ethnic Enrollment in Public Schools
English Language Learners
Children and Youth With Disabilities
Undergraduate Enrollment
Post Baccalaureate Enrollment
Rates of School Crime
Teachers and Pupil/Teacher Ratios
Public School Revenue Sources
Public School Expenditures
Education Expenditure by County
International Assessments
High School Coursetaking
Status Dropout Rates
Immediate Transition to College
Characteristics of Postsecondary Institutions
Characteristics of Postsecondary Students
Undergraduate Fields of Study
Graduate Fields of Study
Price of Attending an Undergraduate Institution
Grants and Loan Aid to Undergraduate Students
Postsecondary Revenues by Source
Expenses of Postsecondary Faculty
Characteristics of Postsecondary Faculty
Student Loan Volume and Default rates
Institutional Retention and Graduation rates for Undergraduate Students
Degrees Conferred by Public and Private Institutions
Two buses fitted with the wireless charging tech are in use in the city of Gumi
South Korea has switched on a road which can recharge electric vehicles as they drive over it.
The project's developer says the 12km (7.5 miles) route is the first of its kind in the world.
It means vehicles fitted with compatible equipment do not need to stop to recharge and can also be fitted with smaller than normal batteries.
Two public buses are already using the technology and there are plans to add 10 more by 2015. "It's quite remarkable that we succeeded with the OLEV [online electric vehicle] project so that buses are offering public transportation services to passengers," said Dong-Ho Cho, who led the team behind the scheme at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST).
"This is certainly a turning point for OLEV to become more commercialised and widely accepted for mass transportation."
However, another transportation expert warned that the costs involved in installing the equipment meant it was less practical than other schemes which involved vehicles wirelessly charging at specific locations or using overhead cables.
"There is clearly a lot of potential for this technology for public transport applications, but for private electric vehicles the cost of fitting all roads with such systems may be prohibitive," said Dr Paul Nieuwenhuis from the Centre for Automotive Industry Research at Cardiff University.
The researchers say the electromagnetic fields involved do not pose a health risk
Smaller batteries
The Korean project runs from the train station in the town of Gumi, in the south of the country, to the In-dong district.
Electric cables installed under the road are used to generate electromagnetic fields which are picked up by a coil inside the device and converted into electricity. The receiving equipment can be up to 17cm (6.7in) above the road's surface.
The researchers say they can transfer 20 kHz and 100 kW (136 horsepower) electricity at up to an 85% maximum power transmission efficiency rate.
They say that the power strips involved only need to be placed under 5% to 15% of the road, meaning that only certain sections need to be dug up and replaced.
They add that because vehicles do not need to stock up on energy before making their journey, the batteries involved can be three times smaller than would otherwise be needed. This reduces the weight of the vehicles helping reduce the amount of carbon dioxide emitted when generating the power required.
'Showcase technology'
Although the OLEV project is the first working scheme to power vehicles on the move, there are other inductive charging projects elsewhere.
Torino, Italy and Utrecht, the Netherlands have also fitted wireless charging equipment to some of their bus stops to allow the vehicles to top up power while drivers take short breaks.
Engineering firms Arup and Mitsui have set up a joint venture to roll out a similar scheme in Milton Keynes this autumn.
Utah State University is also testing a prototype campus bus which it says can achieve greater than 90% power transmission efficiency with a distance of 6in (15cm) between the pick-up coil and road surface at certain stops.
A Utah State University spin-off company is testing a wireless charged bus on its campus
There are also moves to transfer the concept to cars. In London, computer chip maker Qualcomm is testing a wireless charging tech it calls Halo which it has fitted to Citroen and Rolls Royce vehicles, but again the idea is only to install power transmission pads at certain spots.
One expert said it was likely to be a long time before South Korea's more ambitious design became commonplace.
"I think we are decades away from even thinking about a nationwide network of electrified roads," said Ashvin Chotai, managing director of the Intelligence Automotive Asia consultancy.
"For now, it appears to be more of a showcase technology than something which has the potential to be commercialised."
Digital Learning Technologies, as it stand
out aimed to anyone who wishes to learn how to teach or educate, train, uplift
to someone’s skill or knowledge with the help of electronic, digital media.
I
did not learn this. In fact, I learned much more than the definition of
DLT. The lectures were discussion on various subject related topics and the blogging
exercise was the base, on how the integrity and the instrument called Blogging
works. The criterion of privacy in electronic
media and how to integrate VAKOG (visual, auditory, kinaesthetic, olfactory and
gustatory) in DLT with the ‘neuro’, ‘linguistic’ and behavioural ‘pattern’ - NLP
affects to the study performance of an individual were must for the subject. I understood the VAKOG and NLP are the requirement of emerging individualised and ubiquitous demand of
learning from current social and economic structure. The research on ‘Four Pedagogy’ reviled
that how its' been related to all stages of development in learning
system and method where the core is- the establishment of truth. The learning with DLT will have long
lasting impact for the fact of co-relating each LO to practical life. The approach
of self-finding at 7 level, sometime becomes, bit too much for the fact of time
consumption, but the outcome it generates, is always engraved to memories.
The experience of practical learning using ‘Adobe
Connect’ was worth to have, for the current and future requirement of sharing
knowledge or training or education on global level.
According to my understanding, the core emphasis it gave on was for understanding
and strengthening the fact of ‘Change’. I knew the fact that change is the only
constant phenomenal on this earth, but it all depends on us how we react to it
and how we accept it.
The technological advancement has brought a changing milestone
in learning system, with opening of great opportunities too.
As all change does carry a package of total impact,
some par of it is positive and some not flavoring It is our nature to accept only positive,
but the study of DLT has given a rise to an understanding that we have an
inner capability, if used or focused on, which can turn the negative
of unfavorable impact to the positive side. And more I knew different technologies,
used and useful in DL; the count of positive outcome to all stack holders at
all stage of and in all segments, strengthens the notion. The vitality (Changing and
emergence of various DLT) was
the demand of new skills, and in many case it is simply
converting current skills to the technical parameters.
Initiation to the change is widely a tough process,
but at the end, brings ease and flexibility.
The presentation from Joyce Seitzinger,
gave an in-depth understanding of
how to manage the bombardment of changing
technologies, and
keep pace with it,
by selecting and establishing PLN –
Personal Learning Network.
The knowledge is good, but the overflow of it, can
disturb life – mentally and socially too.
Designed by Raj Jadeja
The joint session with Stephanie Day, was much
awaited and indeed gave me a methodical way to develop the material to teach,
with the help of these technologies. The understanding of
ADDIE -Analysis,
Designing, Development, Implementation and Evolution and
OTARA – Object, Theme,
Assessment, Resource and Activity, model will be the foundation in future life,
where developing any model of training or teaching will be easy.
The foundation for the second assignment,
not I will say the time for practical experiment of the system learned in the
process of this ‘Blogging’ was well set.
We’ll look at practicality of how learning
and literacy is symbolized in widely held digital-, (or cyber-) philosophy, and
will discover how that links with the ideas and creativity we are seeing in
our project, unfolds’ in our tactics to digital education. Yet I did not learned much..... as learning is a process, not destination. But yes, it was the great time with you Michael and will rest as a a part of precious memories of life. Thank you.
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It is a collection of
work proof and the development done in over the period of time call “work
portfolio”. The presentation of these documents in form of electronic media and
presenting it over the web is called “E Portfolio”.
It is usually a collection
of work developed across wide-ranging contexts over time. A portfolio advances
learning of any student or faculty by providing a method to consolidate, store
and exhibit pieces of work.
The electronic format offers benefits of simultaneous or staged evaluation
process of leaning outcome of student portfolio to faculty and other
professionals using technology, which generally include the Internet, CD-ROM,
video, animation or audio.
The technology
advancement has raised the popularity and effectiveness of “Electronic Portfolios”
to the traditional paper based portfolio for the convenience offered to the practitioners
and peers.
The student portfolios
are the common and well known format of portfolios, but now many educational institutions
do have departmental and institutional portfolio, offering facility and
opportunity to have evaluation of student work on global platform. They do offer
means of evaluating the influence of the complete educational practice on
student education. They play a vital measure in evolving in-house enhancement
and external answerability on the level of the entire institution.
A very modern and perfect example for the e
portfolio is ‘LinkedIn’. A free electronic platform created with all very
essential features to develop, update and professionally present a profile. It
does have a great feature of getting associated to some professional individual
and group too. The platform does provide feature of endorsement by seniors or peers
from a particular work.
It is well known to everyone that Google is
a platform, where the need for web and it’s maximum free features are
available. One of the features is ‘Google Site’. A place demands a bit practice
and experiment, but after a while, with dedicated efforts can create a very
professional looking web portfolio. It is not restricted to only portfolio, but
one can even create a basic business site to trade or sell certain items. The
site offers a free feature of ‘Ad Sence’, which might earn a passive side
income
I had to spare good one day to get to this moderately OK kind of website, featuring very basic of my profile as Raj Jadeja - Profile
Monday, April 1, 2013
The morning session, finally, conveyed a pure emphasis
on understanding vital of the course-‘Digital Learning Technologies’ and the second
assignment as a part of it.
Up till now, we learned how to use diverse
technologies for ‘Digital Learning’, but the methodical way to cultivate the
material to teach, with the help of these technologies, was unknown.
Thanks to the combine effort from Michael and Stephanie Day.
An understanding & postulating the base of ‘Developing Digital
Learning Course’ was must for the academic purpose as well as future profiling. The process of Analysis, Designing, Development,
Implementation and Evolution - ADDIE, were well brief by Stephanie, with the
water flow approach to the process.I
found it similar to the process of developing any system and procedure to
evolution. It is the ‘necessity (problem) still mothering the innovation’.
No problem – No innovation – No Growth – No
Progress- No Life
The tool ‘OTARA” is different to ‘ADDIE”
for its approach. The water flow approach with ADDIE, - step after step, is not
the case with OTARA – OBJECT is identified- the process of ASSESSSMENT is
establish-the THEME worked out- the RESOURCES identified-established ACTIVITIES.
While knowing the value of time and need of
quick availability of LO (Leaning Object) the most popular tool of current time
is Rapid Prototyping.
After gathering core information for LO-
which is common to rest of two OTARA & ADDIE, every following step from
ADDIE or OTARA is evolved with prototyping, which helps in establishing a standardisation
for the rest of LO, to assure quickness for the remaining LO.
I understood that both (OTARA and ADDIE) with
adoption of RAPID approach will assure
A well investigated subject for online study,
Where a clearly define way and process of
evolution is derived – A prototyping with RAPID
After designing a vibrant process for the
learning object– A prototyping with RAPID
Producing the content using define
technology and tools – A prototyping with RAPID I
Implementing the procedure of training or
learning by teacher for student – A prototyping with RAPID
Form the very first step of implementation,
assuring the steps designed for evolution to update and advance the Learning Outcome–
A prototyping with RAPID The concept of OTARA was worked out as a
group work in the afternoon session, where a technology for Digital Learning was
selected and evolved in accordance with OTARA principals.
The session on 25th March 2013, brought
a clear understanding on a scientific approach to the process, procedure and
current practice followed in developing Digital Learning course material.
The presentation by Joyce Seitzinger was not the point
for the time period of 2012 but will be the crux to everyday's issue we all faces and unless and until, detailed like Joyce, we will never get a chance to come
over the impact of it.
It was a class conducted from EIT Napier, led by Joyce
from Melbourne and participated even from Gisborn. It was for 2012 class, but,
I felt she was sharing with us in 2013, and if repeated next year, someone will
think of same. This is what the Digital Learning System is all about.
Her core thought was all about how to manage with the ‘Information
Overflow or Bloat’, which demanding filtering and Joyce, raised a point of over
filtering as ‘Filter Bubble’
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I feel that today’s world has turnout to a constantly bursting
volcano of information and this is because of our conscious or unconscious race
toward technological advancement.
The result is the constant swapping and managing
between bombardments of information we get on a daily basis and that feeling us
totally muddled.
The referring of dividing PLN – Personal Learning
Network in to four ‘Faces’ or categories- Staff Room, Cabinet, Portfolio, News
Paper, sounds quite logical and
practical to me for the reason that they give you a systematic way to organizing
the source of knowledge.
It is a serious
question that how we will manage this and how should we lay a foundation to the
method where the coming generation will not have to face this situation anymore
and can well manage with the bloat.
It was assumed that with the emergence of the Internet
things would become easier – saving trees by using or eliminating paper and
more time to enjoy life.
No, it is never turn out as predicted, rather the cut
down of paper flow has been replaced by shower of emails, inbox's bursting with
unanswered mails, jobs incomplete for an absolute burden of having too much to perform
and best of all it is has become part of today’s reality.
One of the reasons is the need to keep backup files of
everything. After all, we think, when our hard drive crashes we have nothing
left. So we create masses of duplicate copy to be sure “just in case”. Also the
readiness of information is mind numbing at times.
We feel overwhelmed
with where to look and what to do. So on we go on with the quest of
finding success nirvana, only to turn in circles.
Monika Mundell stated that 'Modern
life has also brought a never ending influx of choices' Like private TV channel subscriptions, TV
gaming, SMS, mobile phones, RSS subscriptions, a never-ending stream of offline
and online publications, our favorite blogs and websites, and more.
Despite their intentions, these inventions have not
just served to make life easier. The irony here is that they have actually made
life harder — creating information overload and the added pressure of being
reachable 24/7.
Gone are the days when one was waiting for a great
book to be published or channel surfing the 5 or so TV channels we had in those
days. Back then we weren't ruled by information at all. It was actually a lot
harder to come by information which gave us plenty of breathing space.
Data control and how one can master it
My PLN
To take control of the influx of constant data that
enters our life, one can do several things. These are all easy to implement and
will make a huge difference in how you deal with the information that enters
your mind.
Much like a computer, we only have space for so much,
until our own hard drive (mind) starts to act up.
If it is overloaded, then our
system management will shut down one by one until…
Take these action steps to deal with information
overload:
Email: Since most of us are using the
Internet, we will need to take measures to get back in control. To start with,
we need to ruthlessly eliminate all the non-relevant stuff that sits in our
inbox. Those “later” things are not important enough to keep clogging up space.
Also be strict with the time you devote to your email inbox. One hour a day
should be more than ample for most.
TV: TV probably accounts for a huge deal
of information overload. Despite the fact that we watch TV to relax, it is
actually counter productive as we soak up a lot of information through our
subconscious.
Mobile Phones: I know, it’s pretty cool to be
the proud owner of the latest gadget mobile phone. I also love gadgets but
regardless of how cool they look and how sexy they feel, I turn my mobile off
at night and sometimes even during the day. The reason I bought a mobile phone
in the first place was to be able to call others in case I was stranded
somewhere. Plus the annoyance of getting more and more call center calls to my
mobile only makes me more determined to hit that off switch.
Unwatched Recorded Shows: Uhh,
yeah, I used to be a sucker for not missing my favorite show to the extent of
recording them, only to end up with days’ worth of recording and not enough
time to watch them all. Take a hint – throw them in the bin.
RSS Feeds: With the invention of RSS
feeds we were supposed to be saving time, reading our favorite blogs. The
reality however looks a lot different. Because it is so easy to hit that
subscribe button, we now do ourselves another dis-service by subscribing to a
gazillion blogs we don’t even like anyway. I clean out my RSS feeds at least once
a month. Those I haven’t read in that time will have to go.
Backups: Are essential for anybody who
uses a computer and stores data. To keep control of the backed up data, why not
burn all the photos and videos onto a DVD? It will take up less storage than
having to buy more and more external HDs to keep backing up. Also, one backup
should normally be enough and for those of us who need two, maybe a written
copy (passwords, login data) will be more useful.
Meditate: I purposely left this for
last, since meditation can help us immensely with information overload.
Preferably you will want to meditate once a day just before bed. Even if it is
just for 5 minutes, with meditation we can stop that ever constant chatter that
goes on in our head and indulge
into the restful sleep we so desperately need.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q08UNoJW8-g
Finally it is all about having a perfect balance in
day to day life (Which was aimed with all innovations so far ) and to have that
‘Perfect Balance’ we need to balance our inclination towards technology and
reliance on it.
The technical
advancement in web technologies -use of asynchronous JavaScript (AJAX)
techniques has offered many features to website to be more ‘responsive’ and ‘easy
to interact’ with.
Whilst web 2.0 fundamentals are still
applicable, the internet has really now moved on to a new era where the social
web is the centre of most people's experience of the internet. Web 2.0 can be
seen as a precursor to this era, which is a more fundamental change that what
we saw during the mid-2000s.
In another way it was the birth of the
social web. Social sites which allowed sharing of content with large number of
users (e.g. Flickr, delicious, YouTube etc.) came to prominence. Yahoo! Answers
can be viewed as a web 2.0 sites, as it allowed people to easily create content
and interact in a way that didn't exist before.
Pro
networking sites, ‘LinkedIn.com’, have come up as a respected domicile to meet
new employees, employers or clients, reconnect and fortify relationships with
friends and former colleagues, and prime most for career building to the beginner
into professional world or to get carrier-related advice.
As a standardised
norms emphasis that the value of any particular site hinges on the number of
people using it -- and the quality of those people. It is estimated that roughly
more than 20 million people have profiles on LinkedIn. There are some other
sites like Spoke.com, are
available, but they cater to more specific purposes, even if they have fewer
members compare to LinkedIn.
The concern about time
commitment, is valid, and shouldn't be overblown, says Barry Parr, a media
analyst with Jupiter Research in San Francisco. The more you give quality time
in building the profile, more quality result it will generate. It also depends
on how much time you're willing to spend making key connections or
communicating through the site and building and updating your profile. For an
instance, a profile with two connections won't get you very far. Once the profile
is developed, with regular time dedicated to the follow-up will fetch great
results.
As the time progress
the network do progress with additional features and feathers to add on to its’
members cap. These features must first evolve and then adopted assuring its
suitability to individual profile.
LinkedIn, for
instance, offers service providers a referral feature where they can solicit
reviews and referrals from other users.
One of the present features called
LinkedIn Answers, is a good way to gather feedback from the personnel network
about many points pertaining to one’s professional and personal ambiance.
Once you're set up,
maintaining your profile often takes just a few minutes each day, but the
rewards, will be far going.
The hi-tech expansion of recent time has upsurge an utter novel form of teaching in entire world. To be ‘Techno
Savvy’ is the orderly characteristic today’s generation possess compare to the
tutors they are under the guidance.
The second to kin status is slowly shifting
from close relatives to their mobile devices. Emphatically, the change
technological advancement bringing in is inevitable and do carry, as a nature
of law, its’ positives’ and negatives’.
The
core changes were seen and reflected as shortage of concentration power,
the level of distraction, visual stimulus overload, are growing very high as the technology is changing with the
blink of an eye demanding for a sprint rather a walk to coup up with it. .
Lack of real socialising,
Nearly lack of attentiveness for the whole class time,
Identity theft,
Depression and many more are the direct and
negative result of modern bombardment of changing technology and its’
incorporation to the world of education.
If this side sounds too heavy to deal with, once again as a nature of law, the other side, a positive one’ has the same heavy
offerings to balance.
There is much
more to extract from the development of the technology and its invariable
involvement in the field of education.
The list of pros and cons can go on and
on as the developmental process of technology is also a continued process, but
to sum up, the few of the core skills the teachers required are
Balancing of the
integration of technology in traditional education system – the trade-off is
crucial.
Participating in the
professional virtual network to keep updated.
A case to case base
assisting to student for developing their real and virtual social network.
Offering enough study
opportunity for individual requirement of student, so they can strongly develop
and implement the digital learning confidently in their life span.
An inspirational
identity to their digitally qualified student.
And many more such skills
are demanded with the day to day explosion's of technology.
But the vital skill, a
teacher needs to cultivate over a period of time, is to know the new technology or
feature and co – relate the use at right point of education process and the limitation
of reliability and reliance of that technology in the growth process of Digital
Learning.
