Event-Detail
INNOVATIONS IN EDUCATION
This Report encompasses the flow of events in detail and the presentations of various teachers made in the course of the workshop “INNOVATIONS IN EDUCATION”. Computer technologies and other aspects of digital culture have changed the ways people live, work, play, and learn, impacting the construction and distribution of knowledge and power around the world.HCL Foundation in partnership with Basic Education Dept., Govt. Uttar Pradesh organized a consultative workshop on- “Innovations in Education” at Vidya Bhawan, Basic Education Department, Lucknow. The objective of the workshop was to strengthen the content delivery mechanism by bridging it with technology in order to improve learning outcomes and retention level of students in primary schools.The workshop was chaired by Dr Sarvendra Vikram Singh, Director – Basic Education, GoUP and Ms Ruby Singh, Secretary – Basic Shiksha Parishad, GoUP. Close to 50 teachers from different districts of Uttar Pradesh participated and shared
their experiences on the use of technological practices in classroom teaching with emphasis on early grade reading & writing practices in primary schools of the state.It also intended to work as a platform to garner feedbacks and opinions of teachers from across the state of Uttar Pradesh on what they think of these changing digital classrooms in the Government Schools.
The role of teachers is crucial here along with district administration and project initiatives such as Samuday. And a change has been seen where the focus has shifted to quality education. However, what is remarkable here is that this process has started from within and has shown its impact with a drastic change in enrolment.
He spoke vividly about how children learn through the sensations of speaking, touching, writing, repeated rehearsals and then culmination of all the above parameters. ICT can provide diverse options for taking in and processing information, making sense of ideas, and expressing learning. Students learn best through visual and tactile modalities, and ICT can help these students ‘experience’ the information instead of just reading and hearing it. He went on to narrate as to how a child spends the maximum number of hours in schools and how the day is divided from the Student’s and Teacher’s perspectives. Right from the Morning Assembly to the lunch sessions and other activities in the school. In this context, he explained how the Introduction of Technology and Digital Literacy have transformed the face across the education system and the schools. Not to forget is the role of teachers. Teachers need specific professional development opportunities in order to increase their ability to use ICT for formative learning assessments, individualized instruction, accessing online resources.
As per a situational analysis of enrolment numbers, back in 2016 the enrolment figure was 1.52 crore all across the state for both primary and upper primary schools. Before 2016, the state witnessed a downfall of 22 lakh students in the last five years due to migration from government to private schools. In the last one year prior to 2016, the state lost 5 lakh students and this became a matter of grave concern for the state.
About Clicker Technology:
HCL - Foundation has partnered with Samsung led Tag Hive initiative of clicker based solution in government primary schools to introduce a method of assessment where students use clickers to answer questions that appear on the screen. Clickers, or classroom or audience response systems, are instructional technologies that enable teachers to rapidly collect and analyze student responses to questions during class. The following sequence is a typical use of such a system.
THE BENEFITS:
HCL - Foundation has partnered with Samsung led Tag Hive initiative of clicker based solution in government primary schools to introduce a method of assessment where students use clickers to answer questions that appear on the screen. Clickers, or classroom or audience response systems, are instructional technologies that enable teachers to rapidly collect and analyze student responses to questions during class. The following sequence is a typical use of such a system.