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Thinking Activity: Education & Technology

Thinking activity on Education and Technology Video-1: Changing paradigms by Ken Robinson This video starts with this line How do we educate our children to take their place in the economies of the 21st century? Economic, culture identity, globalization, economic circumstances and industrial revolution they all are discussed in this video. The current system was designed and conceived for a different age. The arts are victims of this mentality. Aesthetic and Anaesthetic. Aesthetic experience- when senses are operating at their peak and Anaesthetic- shut your senses off deaden yourself to what it's happening. Gene pool education: we have to think differently about human capacity academic or non-academic education, abstract, professional, theoretical and myth. And in last great learning happens in groups is the collaboration is the stuff of growth. Video- 2 & 3: Sugata Mitra on SOLE and Future Learning What is the future of learning? Schools, as we know them are obsol...

Workshop on the quality and authenticity of web resources

Workshop on: Quality and Authenticity of Web Resources It is a workshop about how web resources rely on the original references and authoritative writings and articles. On  19th November 2019, Prof Dilip Barad sir organised one workshop on how to find Quality and Authenticity of web Resources at the Department of English. Through this workshop, we get information about the quality and Authenticity of Web Resources. In the present time, students reliance on the internet 🌐 and uses web sources, but how they are authentic and valid. Nowadays the use of the library is reduced. In present time more internet is being used instead of the library.  The use of the internet is increasing by the students and teachers for reading educational materials and research. How much credibility can be read online for assignments and research papers in this digital age? According to the Turnitin report, which websites are most preferred for reading and research according...

Character of Friday in Robinson Crusoe for postcolonial aspect in the context of A Grain of Wheat

Thinking Activity: In the Context of A Grain of Wheat. How is the Native represented by colonizers? Do a character study of Friday in Robinson Crusoe. Throughout the history of mankind, there has always been an individual or a group of individuals who have deemed himself to be superior. This master-slave relationship has occurred skin colour. Friday is slave and Crusoe is his master. This relationship has also occurred in A Grain of Wheat. Britain is ruled upon Kenyan people. English people and the English language are strongly used, therefore, natives civilization does not understand the English language. Negros was a black people of Africa and people was a master (superior). Englishman has sold African people as a thing. During the 1930s, the first colonial laws were authorized formally establishing the institution of slavery. In the context of A Grain of Wheat, both the colonizer and the colonized feel morally justified in their pursuits, colonialism is ultimately an immora...

Introductory thinking activity on Mass Media and Communication

Mass Media:-        Mass media refers to a diverse arrangement of media technologies that reach a large audience via mass communication. The technologies through which this communication takes place include a variety of outlets.        Each mass medium has its own content types, creative artists, technicians, and business models. For example, the Internet includes blogs, podcasts, web sites, and various other technologies built atop the general distribution network. The sixth and seventh media, Internet and mobile phones, are often referred to collectively as digital media; and the fourth and fifth, radio and TV, as broadcast media. Some argue that video games have developed into a distinct mass form of media. Importance of communication in everyday life & which platform you prefer the most for mass communication:        The communication brings people together, closer to each other. Communication is a signi...