Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Challenge for ubiquitous and individualised Digital Learning Technology


The only constant phenomena on this earth is ‘Change’ and change means reaction, reformation, evolving, upraising, moving and all those adjective which refers to change. The change has to be painful, drastic and of course beautiful – so as the butterfly.

The change from traditional to modern digitalised learning will also have to pass through all the characteristics of ‘Change’.  The question is are we well prepared for the happening  as a midwife for the new baby or will it all be left to nature as for the butterfly.

The High cost of latest technology and the short life span it has, is the core ubiquitous challenge the Digital Learning Environment is facing. This challenge will be more and more critical for education provider and for student.

Managing changes of rapid technical advancement at education provider maybe easy to adopt, but for student, will be tough enough in such a downturn of economy,

Finding right technology fitting individual learning requirement is also critical as to getting a clear picture from an individual for the effectiveness of the course. The effectiveness of course does have relevance with the media or platform it is delivered on.

Above this, the challenge Digital Learning System, has raised to the sanctuaries old strong orthodox and well established education system, is will they change?

How the business and economic scenario will react and will the reaction be positive and constructive? 

On the one hand, the opportunities are endless, through innovative technology; education can be ubiquitous, adaptable, approachable, improved, and economical. On the other hand, we have to deal with tough technologies, market severity  closed minds, apprehensive school districts, missing infrastructure, a shrinking tax base and politics.

At the end, the change we're going over at the present, will eventually going to be the most significant in the history of learning. 

An instance where Digital Learning Technology was true life incidence

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Inclination toward technology and its use in day to day life was too natural since the Lotus book was in use.

Recently during the first semester of Graduate Diploma in Information Technology, one of the programming subjects was giving me a real hard time.


The basic understanding was clear to me but the form in which it was happening, was getting too tough. The subject was at the level seven, so the interaction was limited and expectancy was more from student.      
The detail search on Google did provided good literature, but the search for practical was not getting fulfilled.

Finally the second most search place on www.youtube.com came to rescue and I found detail video on the subject, which saved me.

It is a very memorable instance.

Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Four pedagogy’s of Anderson and our life.


The knowledge we have might fill few books, but the knowledge we don’t have may fill few libraries. I don’t know who said it, but I remember as once my father told me. The important thing he told me was the statement came just after that.

He said that, till the last breath of our life, we are student and the best way to learn is accept the fact or truth that every creature on this earth has something to offer as knowledge. It is up to us how and when we find that truth – knowledge.

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The four pedagogy – (paidos - child and ago – lead, means leading a child, in Greek language) of Anderson have very distinct notions of ‘Truth’ – its nature, where it resides and how it might be expressed.

In one of the ‘New ‘Classical (neo-Aristotelian Pedagogy), the knowledge or truth is conceived, without scrutinizing the missing premise on which the argument is based.

He must be socialist, because he favours Graduated Income Tax. And many more of such statement people make where the conclusion is without scrutinizing the missing premises.


‘It is from Cadbury, it got to be good’ my son says quite often whenever he wants a chocolate from Cadbury. A very classic example or arriving to strong conclusion – establishing truth.

With the modes of Discourse Pedagogy, the writer becomes more a detective and supports the truth with various facts and findings to the truth.

Usually the lecturer or teacher will recognize the methods of arrangement: narration, description, exposition, and argumentation. Every style might be additionally categorised into sub-modes; for case, discussion might comprise relate and divergence, or reason and outcome.

‘The acid will burn.’ The statement heard in 5th form a science teacher was so sharply carved in mind, that even the most diluted and medically purified one was scary at first instance in medical lab.

With Process (neo-Platonic) Pedagogy the fact or reality is considered as ideal rather than material. The truth exists in human psyche. The presenter consequently pursues truth through self-examination.

The process approach to teaching writing makes use of free-writing and pre-writing drills so that the essayist can compose the way in the direction of the truth that he or she is chasing (but can never moderately prompt).

Actually, language is challenging in process pedagogy as it fit in to the material territory and so cannot sufficiently characterize the idyllic.

As an alternative of objective, representational language, the process approach emphasizes the importance of the individual voice. Voice personalizes the exploration of an idea, privileging individual perception over any objective truth.

The process approach has its paybacks. Paramount, it roots the proprietorship of writing exactly where it belongs: with the student. Next, it explains students to reflect further intensely around a topic as they move through the various pre-writing, writing, and revision processes.

Nothing like the aforementioned three methodologies to teaching composition, the epistemic approach debates that truth does not exist apart from language. Relatively, truth is made by language. The action of text writing is a truth-producing (or, if you like, a meaning-making) process.

Based on an educational model, which assumes that the learning process is an interactive process of seeking understanding, consisting of three fundamental components: 

The e learning and pedagogy.

Conceptualization, Construction and Dialogue, the Pedagogy is motivated on enabling learning and intellectual growth of students in contrast to instruction that treats students as the object of curriculum implementation.

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Effective learning pedagogy necessitates teachers to realise how students learn and must have the aptitude and independence to design, implement and assess educational activities that meet the needs of individual and all students.

E-learning pedagogy is one that not only integrates learning pedagogy, but goes further than it to take account of a profounder study into the fusion of instructional strategies that take into account of real-time personalized learning content-to-learner adaptability.

It is vital to note that the projected e-learning pedagogy should not anticipate signifying the full range of multifaceted jobs that include teaching; relatively, it must signify instructional events that promote lively student learning in the context of e-learning.

It will emphasis on the misuse of information technologies to acclimatize to the fluctuating learning circumstances and diverse student requirements. 

Monday, February 25, 2013

Meaning of VAKOG & NLP and there relation.


VAKOG - visual, auditory, kinaesthetic, olfactory and gustatory, the different senses, with which human can grasp information known as representation systems, or sensory modalities.

In simple way the senses are used by human body to grasp information and act upon. The act based on the information sensed does differ as out of all the different senses which one is dominating. 

The dominance of the senses is very closely related to the circumstances a person is in to and the mood at that stage.

A testiest pizza offered to same person with same hunger, but in different mood will raise different review of same pizza.

The same happens to the knowledge offered.  The NLP - Neuro-linguistic programming The word asserts a connection between the neurological processes ("neuro"), language 
("linguistic"), and behavioral patterns learned through experience ("programming") that proponents speculate can be changed to achieve specific goals in life.

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People have very different ways of describing their world. From noticing the eye patterns and checking that people have varying ways of internalising information, we can begin to know that everybody has their own personal way of experiencing their world.

NLP asserts that for most circumstances and most people, four of the five sensory based modes seem to dominate in mental processing:

  • Visual thoughts – sight, mental imagery, spatial awareness
  • Auditory (or linguistic) – sound, speech, dialog, white noise
  • Kinaesthetic (or feelings) sense – somatic feelings in the body, temperature, pressure, and also emotion.
  • Self-talk (or audio internal)

The other two senses,
  • Gustatory (taste) and
  • Olfactory (smell),
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are closely associated, often seem to be less significant in general mental processing, and are often considered jointly as one (possibly linked with feelings).

This combine knowledge of NLP – Neuro Linguistic Programming and VAKOG – Visual, Auditory, kinaesthetic, Olfactory and Gustatory sensing capability of information becomes crucial in developing and framing educational material and choosing the media to be used. 

Individualised and Ubiquitous Learning

The miniaturisation of family, the world’s conversion in to globalised village, availability of ample knowledge and the resources to share it with steep curve of changing technology has even change the leaving style.

The way of working, the structure of family and in turn society has even change due to the bombardment of technology in almost all area.

These changes in human life and world economic and social pattern had given tremendous boost to Individualised and Ubiquitous Learning market.

The current trend of business is ‘possible to produce a product anywhere, using resources from anywhere, by a company located anywhere to sell anywhere’, John Naisbiti (1994).

The wave of globalisation has been supported by strong rise of e business and new value to the boundary less business.

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The odd hours of working, distances to travel for work, usefulness of knowledge at all part of world are the few core reasons for the demand of Individualised Learning. Personalized learning is defined as adjusting the pace (individualization), adjusting the approach (differentiation), and connecting to the learners interests and experiences.

The mobility for work and from work to home, the odd hours to work, the miniaturisation of computer to different form like note pad, tablet and fastest changing mobile technology offering Smart phones, has become most unavoidable (many a time a nuisance) to live without.

The endless features offered from smart phones and ease of use has made them second ‘Sweet Heart’.  These characteristics of Smart Phone devices has emerged an additional platform to bombard knowledge called Ubiquitous Learning. A ubiquitous learning environment is any setting in which students can become totally immersed in the learning process. 

Something like Ubiquitous computing. Ubiquitous computing (ubicomp) is a post-desktop model of human-computer interaction in which information processing has been thoroughly integrated into everyday objects and activities.




Digital Learning Technology and me.

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Quite excited, for everything...first day of new  and last semester for Grad.Dip - Information Technology, meeting new people and on top of it, will learn something new and upcoming.

Started early and got in to first class of never resting and ever evolving subject - Digital Learning.

A nice first hour of over all understanding of subject and knowledge on where the human race is heading to fulfill there thirst of knowledge or training or evolving or exploration.

An hour was well and very briefly consume by Michael with his two decades of knowledge and understanding of subject.   

It will be a great time of journey in this class for me...yes it will.

I am Raj Jadeja, and known as Raj. I enrolled to Graduate Diploma - Information Technology last year - second semester. This enrollment was lead by my inclination towards the fastest developing era of technology and the user friendliness it has offered in vast area of commercial as well as personal aspects.

The interacting way of 'Blog' and 'Micro Blog' sprouted a conscious thinking on how to present and what to present, considering the seriousness of privacy. 

The beginning of the class was so well address with the subject of privacy, that it has spark few spots on how to present, that ones' professionalism is fully projected to the subject without any risk of exposing personal aspects.

The concern of privacy over immense potential of Digital Learning Technology is and will surly demand for a focus and may be a new study area to evolve.
A brief speech on Internet Use Raises Privacy Concerns details' a great concern of our day to day use of internet and the consequences it may have, knowingly or unknowingly. www.voanews.com/audio/audio/42837.html

Any way it is all about people and there facility, connivance with dignity to consider.