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| Future Challenges of Education | | | Poonam Gupta | 1/9/2012 11:37:53 PM |
| The major question for the future is not whether education can be delivered on line or will be supported be by multi-media, but what is the best mix of didactical approaches to achieve the goals of education within the constraints of the available resources and characteristics of the students. This means that the challenge is not getting technology & computers into schools but integrating information & communication technology into the teaching and learning process in order to improve the learning outcomes. Potential advantages of using ICI for the teaching and learning process that ICI can help student learn at their own pace.
Provide them with unlimited sources of information. Offer access to other learners and mentors which can be motivating for students of all ages.
Using ICI as a learning medium offers students the opportunity to learn to collect information, organize their thinking, give meaning to information, revise their work, collaborate on projects with others, & present knowledge to audiences. These skills are relevant for students who have to be prepared for the information society in which one of the most important tasks is to handle information. Each student can not only proceed at his own pace but can also take certain responsibility for learning as an active participant. The relevance of these possibilities become more important with the ageing of students, with optimal utilization in upper secondary and higher education. ICI allows the students to focus on real problems, make connections to different fields of interest and construct their own knowledge. In such an approach the teachers role is one of an advisor and a facilitator, arranging the conditions for learning.
In order to prepare student teachers for future education the current training institutes should shift their focus from serving the current education to serving what emerges as the education of the future. Teacher training institutes have to create both space and opportunities in their programme for such a transformation.
This causes a dilemma because teacher training institutes cannot refrain completely from providing the current education system with teachers that can function in the existing situation. This implies strengthening the development of something 'new' while old still exists. During the transaction process 'old' needs care and attention, but should not prevent 'new' from growing. 'Old' should be challenged to 'emerge into new' but at the same time, 'new' needs stimulation and incentives. The development of new practice is a matter of participation of all relevant partners in the process (such as teacher training institutes schools, policy makers, parents_). This means that teacher training institutes will have to establish and maintain close relations with teachers and students of primary and secondary education. The mutual exchange of new approaches for learning has to be become a natural system. Threats of ICI Implementation Implementation ICI in education is not only related to positive potentials. There are also a number of potential problems or possible threats related to the integration of technology in their teaching and learning process. Such problems and threats could be a reason for refraining from the process of educational change and ICI integration. Being aware of the potential problems and threats should make us more conscious in elaborating our plans and strategies so that we can avoid these to happen. Lecturer Dogra College of Education |
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