Educator Chaganty

  As a part of the observation made on two children, one 8 years old and the other 4 years old, we have decided to extend the observation on the older child to understand the way she has embraced technology as a part of learning. The Child A is into a CBSE curriculum and is in her third grade. They have a computer class that spans for one and half hours every week. They have a computer lab session also, that spans over an hour every week. The child is exposed to mobile phones, laptops, tablets and smart TVs, so much so that she can connect to her class online on her own. She is not allowed to access the devices without parental supervision. She might gain access to a desktop very soon. Because of her computer class in school she has gained exposure to applications like Paint 3D, MS word and few applications such. The first part of observation included a comparative study between two children which included assessing their tasks on a mobile phone, an ipad and a laptop. A brief...

  Aim of the observation made: To incorporate the learning from the lectures to understand an ed-tech programme and to understand its efficiency and the effectiveness. Learnings from the lectures considered: All the discussions in class and the reading that complemented them gave me idea of how an education program can be assessed. The conceptual understanding only helped me understand this programme consciously, while the discussions and the examples, that were a part, taught me the nuances of observation and analysis. The influences to create the framework- Personalised Adaptive Learning Behaviourist, Cognitivist and Constructivist theories of learning 21 st Century Learning skills Frameworks and models in understanding education programmes Development theories in learning ISTE standards Activity Based Learning.           About the programme: The Princeton review is a tutoring website and institute offering courses for vario...