Skills - Teachers are Demanded For - Week 3

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  

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• 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.

These are the few of vital skills a teacher required to offer digitalised knowledge to the student. Ford, M D. (2010). 25 wrote at ‘The 21st Century skills teachers should have. Educational Technology and Mobile Learning’ pointing some of them as 

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• Developing and editing Digital Audio and Video
• Using social media to share knowledge with the learner.
• Creating on line educational platform through ‘Blog’ and ‘Wiki”
• Exploiting Digital image for educational purpose with the help of various image editing tools.
• Using video to further the engagement level of student
• Extensive use of info graphics to further the stimulation of student .
• Use of ‘Slide Presentation’ with the tools like Ahead, HelloSlide, Knovio and many more.
• Understanding the crucial aspect of Online Security.
• Word processing skills (MS Word 2007 tutorial, WP tutorial for PC and Mac)
• Spread sheet/database skills (Excel tutorial , Spreadsheet tutorial for PC and Mac,Database tutorial)
• Electronic presentation skills (PowerPoint, KeyNote, Notebook)
• Web navigation/search skills (Internet basics)
• Basic hardware setup/connectivity knowledge and skills (Hardware tutorial)
• Website design skills (Blogger, WordPress, Google Sites, Advanced web design)
• E-mail management skills (Gmail tutorial & tips)
• Digital cameras (still & video) (Basic digital photography)
• Basic multimedia design skills (Movie Maker tutorial, iMovie)
• Computer network knowledge applicable to your school system (Network basics)
• File management (basic concepts & tutorial)
• Downloading software from the Internet (Step-by-step instructions)
• Installing computer software onto a computer system (Here come da bootstrapper)
• Knowledge of virtual/e-learning environments (Overview of VLEs)
• Videoconferencing skills (Overview, Skype)
• Computer-related storage devices (CD/DVDs, USB drives, server storage, online storage, etc.)
• Knowledge of scanners (Tips from scanning guru Wayne Fulton)
• Knowledge of PDAs, smartphones, etc. (PDA vs. smartphone, smartphone history & overview)
• Custom Internet search knowledge (Google custom search)
• Educational copyright knowledge (Video, slideshow, or crib sheet)
• Computer security knowledge and safe practices (Best practices from IU)
• Basic troubleshooting skills (Is it plugged in?  Did you reboot? Yes? Then try this.)
• Interest in technology (Delete technophobia)
• Flexibility
• Patience

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.