1. Use of ICT for Effective
Teaching/Learning
Dr. Dilip Barad
Associate Professor
Bhavnagar University
22nd June 2010
Orientation Progamme, ASC, Gujarat Uni., Ahmedabad
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2. Importance of ICT
• Why ICT?
• Learners and Learning Styles
• Technological advancements
• Pedagogical research
• Time demands for a new change among the
academicians – voice of the eGeneration kid and
academicians of the third world developing
countries.
• Students are more friendly with popular web-resources.
• How? Strategic planning for ICT integration
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3. Learning Styles
• A. Visual (65%):
• B. Auditory (30%)
• C. Kinesthetic / tactile learner (5%)
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4. II. WHY? Technology
• B’coz change is the species of life…
• Every new age has its own problems and has
to solve them …
• The journey – from the symbolic language of
pre-historical man to the symbolic language of
e-Modern teacher…
• Advancement form Oral – Spoken word to
written word… writing is also a technique…
• Four major advances in pedagogy…
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5. III. WHY? Research on pedagogy
• Min Liu, Zena Moore, Leah
Graham, Shinwoong Lee – A Look at the
Research on Computer-based Technology Use
in Second Language Learning – Review of
Literature 1990-2000.
• 21 Journals and 246 Articles
• Two Research in USA and UK
• Two research in Gujarat – Kadi Uni.
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6. How?
• Orientation in the usage of ICT
• Identification of ICT tools useful in teaching
and learning
• Experimenting with ICT tools
• Contextualization – internalization –
institutionalization – dissemination
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7. How?
• By making teachers and students techno-
fluent.
• By integrating latest internet resources in
teaching and learning process.
• Available web 2.0 tools vs dedicated web
site
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8. ICT Tools for Teaching/Learning
• Google Groups:
discussion, pages, links, profile
• Yahoo Groups: profile, polls etc
• Blogs: Assignment submission
• Grou.ps: full website features with wiki
• Delicious: bookmarking webliography
• WikiEducator: eContent platform
• Moodle / Google Docs: Online Exam
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9. • Teaching:
– Sharing
material, explanation, understanding, feedback, intera
ction.
• Web resources:
– Web space for sharing material – web platform for
feedback and interaction to assess understanding.
– Search for free web sites on google search engine
– Web platforms like ning, grou.ps, nicenet.org
– Using eGroups.
– Blogs – blogger/wordpress/bigadda/edublog
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10. Live Demo
• Google Docs: http://docs.google.com
• Blog: http://b4tl.blogspot.com
• Moodle online exam: www.dilipbarad.com
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11. Web tools for Continuous Internal
Assessment and ePortfolio
• CIA?
– 70:30
– 30 Marks internal – Assignment, Test and
Presentation.
• ePortfolia?
– Records of students’ or teachers’ academic career
in multimedia format.
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12. Web tools for Continuous Internal
Assessment and ePortfolio
• Sharing presentation: slideshare.net, authorstream.com
• eGroups: Yahoo, Google, MSN.
• Social Network: Orkut, Facebook, Grou.ps, Ning.
• Video: Youtube, yappr, teachertube
• Image: flickr, picasa.
• Blogs: blogger, wordpress, bigadda.
• Online test/survey: surveymonkey, surveygizmo, google
docs
• Personal Website: teacher / college / University
• Wiki: All purpose tool…
• ePortfolio: www.zunal.org, http://www.foliospaces.com/
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13. • www.grou.ps
www.wikieducator.org/User:Dilipbarad
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14. Thank you!
• Your questions are invited:
• dilipbarad@gmail.com
• Gtalk: dilipbarad
• Y!Msngr: d_barad
• Skype: dilip.barad
• Twitter: dilipbarad
• Facebook: dilipbarad
• Orkut: dilipbarad
• www.dilipbarad.com
• Cell: 9427733691
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