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ELTAI
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For ELTAI - Hornby Trust Funded
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Table
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Report on the Integration of Technology
Dilip Barad
Prof.
and Head, Department of English
Maharaja
Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University, Bhavnagar (364001) , Gujarat, India.
Phone:
09898272313 / 9427733691
ELTAI
Membership No. 30009295; IATEFL Member ID:19674
Introduction
report
is all about integration of technology. All of the twelve points mentioned
under ‘Technology Integration’ is fulfilled in the practice reported here.
Objectives
- Higher Goals of Education
- It’s
a university’s job to produce
citizens who learn to think for themselves, not just humans who can be programmed to follow
someone else’s code.
- Holly Clark
- It is imperative that in 2015, students be able to curate, archive and expand on
the work they are producing in class.
- Today’s
education must help students authentically learn important
digital citizenship lessons.
- Education
must help students to internalize the core subject as well as vital digital literacy skills such as
creating their own digital web presence and learning to effectively and
purposefully share their learning with the world.
- Classify and Reclassify Information
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"The new education must teach the individual
how to classify and reclassify information,
how to evaluate its veracity, how to change categories when necessary,
how to move from the concrete to the abstract and back, how to look at problems from
a new direction — how to teach himself."
(Herbert Gerjuoy)
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UNESCO:
Institution
This
report is about the integration of technology at Post Graduate Department of
English, Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University, Bhavnagar, Gujarat.
This is State University established in 1969.
Class
The students of post
graduate programme of English literature are involved in this project.
Purpose of Using Technology
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To
fulfill the objectives mentioned in ‘Objectives’.
·
Using
technology like blog, Google group, slideshare.net, Google sites, digital
portfolio, flipped learning is part and parcel of
learning at Dept. of English, M K Bhavnagar University
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All students have to
publish their assignments on blog and presentations on slideshare.net Why? So
that peer learning happens on its own. Slow learners learn from assignments and
presentations of fast learners.
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Students prepare
Digital Portfolio: Why? The Students are strongly encouraged to build digital
portfolio to document the four habits of mind:
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1. Integrative thinking: The ability and habit to recognize relationships
among ideas and experiences that are not routinely thought of as related.
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2. Reflective thinking: The ability and habit of looking back at previous
learning and setting those experiences in a new context created by subsequent
learning.
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3. Thinking in Community: The ability and habit of seeking connections
between your learning and the learning of others in the class / community.
· 4.
Thinking in context: The ability and habit of seeking connections
between what you learned in college and relating those connections to subjects,
debate and discussion in the wider world. (Lorenzo and Ittelson)
Evidence of the use of Technology
Digital Portfolio
·
Google
site is used as web platform for Digital Portfolio. Click on this
link to visit Digital Portfolios of the students of various batches. We are
working on this since 2010. Or click here: http://dilipbarad.blogspot.in/2012/04/project-blended-learning-2012.html
·
Also
visit this post for online evaluation rubric of Digital Portfolio which is done
as self-evaluation, peer-evaluation and teacher evaluation. http://dilipbarad.blogspot.in/2016/02/digital-portfolio.html
Blogs for Teacher Worksheet on Film Screening
·
The
use of audio-visual materials in literature classroom is very helpful. An
appropriate use must be though-out, otherwise it would fail to fulfill desired
objectives. Pedagogically speaking, screening of the films should be followed
by student-activities on teacher-worksheet. We used blogs for this purpose.
Click here to view some of the teacher worksheet on film screening and read
students’ responses / engagement / reactions in the comment section below the
post:
Blog Worksheet for Teaching Literature and Critical Theories
·
To
engage learners with learning, the teacher used blog worksheet to teach
literary texts and critical theories. The students were asked to respond on the
blog rather than in pen-paper mode. This helps in building an environment of
trust among all learners. This also helps in peer learning as works produced by
classmates is visible to all. It also leads to conceptual clarity of literary
theories:
Blogs for Assignments and Critical Thinking
·
Here
are some of the sample blogs of students reflection on their learning
·
Here
are some of the sample blogs on students assignments on their learning
Teacher’s Content Sharing Website
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We have used Google Site to
share additional resources, question banks, core content with students
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Please have a look at the
website: http://dilipbarad.blogspot.in/2013/01/ma-english-study-material-reading.html
Hotpotatoes for Interactive Quiz / Test
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Quite often Hotpotatoes suit is
used to develop interactive quiz.
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The sample can be viewed here: https://sites.google.com/site/dilipbaraddilipbarad/
Audacity: Sound Editing Software for Listening and Speaking
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We experimented with this
software and used it effectively for Listening and Speaking skills.
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Here is a presentation on it: http://dilipbarad.blogspot.in/2009/01/audacity-and-elt-enhancing-listening-n.html
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Here is article on it: http://eltweekly.com/2009/07/eltweekly-issue27-research-paper-pedagogical-issues-related-to-speaking-and-listening-skills-sound-editing-software-audacity/
Wikieducator as collaborative and content sharing platform
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We used to use wikieducator for
collaboration and content sharing
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http://wikieducator.org/Dilipbarad:
This is user page of Dilip Barad
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http://wikieducator.org/Aristotle's_Poetics:
Here is content sharing page.
Flubaroo: Auto Grading Script plus Google Form
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For unit end online quiz, we
use Google Form. To auto-generate result, we run Flubaroo script. It also helps
in sending emails to students with their grades and correct/incorrect itemized
analyses.
Presentations by Students (Students’ involvement)
·
Here
are some of the sample presentations by students:
Flipped Learning
·
We
have successfully experimented with Flipped Learning also. Check this link: https://sites.google.com/site/flippedlearninggtu/think
Ted-Ed Lessons
·
We
have also started using http://ed.ted.com/ platform for online
learning. Have a look at one of the lessons uploaded by us: http://ed.ted.com/on/HILJky5n
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More
lessons are in pipe line. We have prepared
several such small learning videos. Have a look at playlist on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5C6B835309FB9771
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All
these short videos are going to be on ed.ted.com
Unit End Online Tests
·
It
is usual practice that teaching is followed by Online Tests to check the
progress of the learners.
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Google
Form, Hotpotatoes and Flubaroo script are used for the test and autograding.
·
Here
are some of the links of such online tests:
Online Rubrics for Self and Peer-Evaluation
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Online
Rubric for the evaluation of Oral Presentaiton:
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Online
Rubric for the evaluation of Written Assignments:
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Online
Rubric for the Review of Language Lab software (Language Lab is one module in
the course of ELT and Technology)
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Online
Rubric for the evaluation of Digital Portfolio
Students’ Reaction and Involvement
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The
real mark of integration of technology in education system is not measured on
the grounds of what and how of technology used by ‘teacher’. Rather, it is ‘what students do with technology’ that
matters more. The involvement of students in the use of technology in their
learning process is very vital. Here, we can see what and how students of last
five batches (from 2010 to 2016) have used technology: http://dilipbarad.blogspot.in/2012/04/project-blended-learning-2012.html
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Many
of the above given links also stand in support of involvement of student in the
integration of technology. As it is well said that – Until and unless, students do not respond through technology, it is not
integration of technology in learning process. It may be ‘use’ of technology by
teacher, but cannot be considered as ‘integration’ of technology.’ All the
above given links stand in support of how technology is integral part of
learning process at Department of English, M.K. Bhavnagar University.
·
One
of the best way to evaluate reaction of students is to compare their
performance in ‘real-life’ examinations conducted by University. I mean, rather
than going for traditional ‘pre-test, post-test’ analyses of target groups, if
we compare their performance in real examinations conducted by University as
independent body, we can get real picture of students performance. Well, the
students never or rarely used technology at Under Graduate (B.A.) level. They
extensively integrated technology at Post Graduate (M.A.) level. These charts
displays that almost all students improved their performance in terms of
percentage in University exam.
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Click here to see more such charts of other
batches: http://dilipbarad.blogspot.in/2012/04/project-blended-learning-2012.html
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By
and large, students have responded positively.
o Students’ response to
Blended Learning: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/11EwOQUpgvm5Ca-R8efz97HGeeXgudaMIgZTVteOC3QA/viewanalytics
o Students’ response to
use of Audio-Visual materials with traditional teaching: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Kq3Sz7C99Y2LjwAg5i7n-IlwWtC68sdHYqlBcaeyaWw/viewanalytics
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Dear ELTAI,
ReplyDeleteThank you for publishing this report on this blog.
You can view images incorporated in this report on this blog: http://dilipbarad.blogspot.in/2016/08/report-on-use-of-technology.html
The PDF copy can be downloaded from this blog.