NAME : NORAZELA BINTI DERAJI MATRIC NUMBER : M20131000603 LECTURER : CIK HAJAH ASMAYATI
BACKGROUND OF PROFESOR SUGATHAS IDEA Profesor Sugata Mitra, Chief Scientist at NIIT, is credited with the discovery of Hole-in- the-Wall. As early as 1982, he had been toying with the idea of unsupervised learning and computers. Finally, in 1999, he decided to test his ideas in the field. On 26th January, Mitra's team carved a "hole in the wall" that separated the NIIT premises from the adjoining slum in Kalkaji, New Delhi. Through this hole, a freely accessible computer was put up for use. With no prior experience, the children learnt to use the computer on their own. Prof. Sugata Mitra has won the $1 million 2013 TED Prize. He said he will use the prize, awarded for high-impact projects, to launch a global initiative for self-directed learning that builds on his discovery. His discovery immediately challenged the traditional view that children need to be taught in a structured classroom setting by a teacher. Mitra, an education technology professor at Newcastle University in the United Kingdom, extrapolated his research to eventually show children can learn how to operate computers, understand research and even learn new languages. Hes now expanded that theory into the development a cloud-based schooling system of what he calls self-organized learning environments . From this experiment , we can conclude that children can drive their own education if provided access to the internet. Nowadays, our education system is out of date. The fact children can drive their own education if provided access to the internet and need to be implement towards future learning of our generations. The School in The Cloud, a learning lab in India, where children can embark on intellectual adventures by engaging and connecting with information and mentoring online. This is an interesting new concept in education and is certainly admirable. However, this system of education depends on having the infrastructure to work with these remote and hands-off teachers, or to work with the technology that facilitates learning. The iconic symbols of education hard cover textbooks, chalkboards and wooden desks it may soon become historical representations of the way we once taught our children to transform to the new way approached . Technology is now an essential part of our daily life and educators are creatively using it and reinventing the classroom for the internet generations .
CONCEPTS IN CLOUD LEARNING Cloud learning will be an interesting experience to democratize education. Cloud learning is starting to be looked at seriously by many educational institutions as a replacement or supplement to their old and traditional teaching. Cloud learning is that it allows for new generations to have more ability and be valuable future generations in so many aspects.
Communicative and collaborative Learning By applying the cloud learning the users is able to take this information to personalize and customize their learning experience to meet their own personal needs. The users is able to increase connections, interactions and sharing in a cloud learning environment which allows for effective and excellent learning techniques .Future learning required a fundamental transformation of education or training need to address new skills a competence. That is why, nowadays educators must determine how education or training policy as we applied today can prepare learners for life in the future society
. Todays generation had familiarise themselves with technology. For them, everything is easy. Once they were born, the flat screen television and computer has already being invented. For example, if you want to look for something to read about, you do not have to trouble yourself by going to library, just browse through the internet. That is way future learning is importance since our world has been overtake technology. We cannot compare children nowadays with the generation from 30 years ago. Even today, a lot of new kind of jobs had existed depend to our environment . These advances make life easier in many ways. They can also be extremely helpful to another students. In order to establish the school in the cloud, of course internet based learning is needed. The basic things are computer and internet access and with one click, all information beyond our imagination is in front of our eyes. So, learning process could happen anywhere and anytime.
Virtual learning One way is using virtual learning system as the platform. Virtual learning is an e-learning education system based on the web that models conventional real-world education by providing equivalent virtual access to classes, class content, tests, homework, grades, assessments, and other external resources such as academic or museum website links . Virtual learning environment are the basic components of contemporary distance learning, but also be integrated with a physical learning environment which may be referred to as blended learning. Such as students can communicate with their teachers through a microphone, chat rights, or writing on the board. Students are expected to complete lessons and assignments independently through ICT system. Teachers also can present lessons through videos, powerpoint, or chatting. In other words or in short we can say that virtual learning environment is a medium of learning and teaching tools that can help students get to gain knowledge through internet. Even classes that meet in person are making greater use of the web in delivering course content. Students set up web pages and use web services to communicate with each other. Most classes have course web sites that contain lectures, assignments and other resource . In fact, the very prospect of self-guided learning will place an enormous burden on the security and integrity of our online learning technologies. For parents and teachers to feel comfortable with children guiding themselves through an Internet-based curriculum, the trust in those online systems has to be ironclad. Self-organized and peer-learning environment We need to design the new future of learning and it will become emerges by approaching SOLE concept that is self-organized learning environment. Students can be more creative , high curiosity to find any knowledge and be able to survive from any type of conditions even in difficulty situation. in the absence of supervision or formal teaching, children can teach themselves and each other. We believed that students have ability to find out the knowledge by themselves. Students might learn more from their peers than from their teachers especially if the teachers do not motivate students to learn or else do not provide the necessary attitude towards the students learning. Therefore the attitude needs to be positive, caring. These points could be kept in mind during our teaching sessions as they have easily been proven to have positive learning outcomes. He also believes that education is a self-organising system where learning is an emergent phenomenon and that learning is a question of attitude not technology. Therefore as teachers, we must promote the right environment, attitude and material in order to captivate the student in a more self-learning environment. This would not only aid the student in carrying out his or her education at primary and secondary level but sustaining his or her ability to self-learn beyond their official education and also promoting the concept of life-long-learning. During conducting peer-learning ,not only have information media changed, while they enjoy and use live interaction with teachers, it no longer holds the monopoly position it once held.
Interesting and Creative Learning We already know that when learning is fun, and seems like a game, people are self- motivated to do it by themselves. When it seems like work, the opposite happens when we say to our children need to perform and forcing them to do something so, that is not naturally come from their soul. Freedom can be an amazing force for creativity and rapid learning, however, if it is unsupported by the ready availability of good information or exercised by unmotivated students, then it can also lead to the intellectual backwaters of self perpetuating ignorance. Modern day cloud applications and technique can learn anything they want. We just have to create an environment for them. It's time for a change in the way we teach kids, or rather, the way we might "allow" kids to learn. This cloud learning make the students having fun in learning and totally will make them like to learn any lessons and to do all the school assignments. We can see education has been confused with testing and so students are influenced by the fear of tests and exams more than they are thrilled just to know to expand their minds. There is very little imagination if any at all, only cognitive retention. Leadership is influence and if that influence comes from fear of teachers, or the system then creativity is impossible and education is not useful. Todays world requires creativity as a prerequisite to excel, not just a cognitive retention of facts from a textbook. People have blamed teachers, facebook, TV, parents, the government and even the children themselves. Our approach to learn is what is wrong with education. The school system we are currently operate is extremely useless in the context of the way the world works, our children are very aware of this and so are not interested, even teachers are beginning to lose interest. As Galileo Galilei, put it: You cannot teach a man anything. You can only help him discover it within himself The question which we need to reflect upon is this: Is our educational system providing the right opportunities for the students to feel motivated and interested to learn? Is it allowing for our students to be responsible for their own learning? Are we assessing students in the right way?
Teachers as moderators and facilitators Learning process is carried out together in a conducive classroom with presence of a teacher which play role more as a facilitator. We need to stop spoon feeding our students and start motivating them to learn by presenting material and situations which are relevant to their lives. The successful experiments in this video prove the importance of giving students the opportunity to learn through discovery and eradicate the idea that learning is simply the memorizing of facts, theories and concepts. Educators, should never underestimate the students potential to learn. School is also a place to learn norm and value of society. The face to face interaction that children will with each other, the teacher and other school community likely to be critical component in this process. Indeed, school is the place where children can learn about humanistic value. Just before you understand a Windows Vista, a Windows 7 is in your face, you hardly settle and Windows 8 is on your screen. You hardly settle into a work-role and another is before you. Creativity is the currency of functionality and we must equip our kids by helping them stay in touch with their creative selves. Of course we still need Mathematics, English, Chemistry and all the other subjects but now we must introduce these concepts to our children by waking their innate sense of wonder. We began to realize that learning is when we went to search in library for books regarding the subject or when weI browsed for information regarding the subject. Therefore, we really agree with the statement that education should be a self- organising system. Teachers should teach them the basic concepts of the subject and then leave their students by themselves to open more on the subject. CHALLENGES IN THE NEW FUTURE In Malaysia, there is a large segment of the population that is computer illiterate. This is especially in the rural areas . In many if not most cases, when designing e-learning approaches in school , we must consider students technical limitations . Technical infrastructure deficiencies on the student side can impede learning sources activity especially in an online distance- learning environment. Other than that, engaging content requires a rich combination of multimedia components. However, due to bandwidth and connectivity limitations, downloading the contents to the students will be slow rate. This creates frustration and boredom among students and teachers and will affect the ease of cloud learning. One disadvantage that could be in this method of teaching is that; the information they find on the internet could be misleading. So as teachers we do not agree that the machine should replace the teacher because we need to monitor them on the information they find. This is why technology cannot just replace a teacher but should be used in conjunction with traditional teaching methods. Awareness from parents feel the traditional learning mode is better than cloud learning. Students also find it difficult and less confident to migrate from the traditional learning method to the cloud learning because always hoping teachers give them everything like spoon-feedings. Apart from that, there is a lot of discussion in implementation of school in the cloud education about rising costs and a hope that technology could be used to make education more efficient and effective. Distance learning and digital education is the latest fashion in education. A large sum of cost is needed to spend especially in poor country. It will be healthy if teachers promote this type of learning, first of all because children will develop problem solving skills and critical thinking on their own. In other words, children are capable of learning on their own, especially when the teacher integrates these main ingredients in her teaching recipe: curiosity, exploration, discovery, motivation, interactive content and fun. Children dont need only the basic education but also they need to know how to convey meaning and deal with the complicated world in which we are living, even without the presence of any other person. In the other hand, there are many subjects that can't be studied without personal access to real-life equipment and experience. However, there are also some subjects where you can complete part of your studies through virtual school and the rest in the classroom, allowing you to reap the many benefits of virtual schooling for a good portion of your experience. In science field especially, in order to understand certain process, children to do experiment, observe with very own eyes, feel and smell the product. With these, the will understand better and will have long memory about it. When come to sport, school in the cloud could not go against it, sport is important. For example, is it possible for students learn the technique to throw a ball when playing basketball by just viewing on the screen. People learn differently, we all do, and therefore what makes us believe children learn in the same manner? Teachers must explore each teaching method and tries to investigate which method the student can learn from. Collaborating learning is one way that seems to show positive results, we must understand our students, give them a voice in class cause we can learn a lot from them. we can learn to become better teachers, a teacher who cares for her students. This could be very beneficial for the students as it ensures a learning environment but also this method also helps students with challenging behaviour and learning difficulties . RECOMMENDATIONS IN APLLYING CLOUD LEARNING Government and publics need to come together to apply cloud learning in school for our new generations. Some of the recommendations are listed below:- Blended Approach in cloud learning Realizing that we are in the transition period between old and new generations ,we propose that a blended approach be adopted. This blended approach is the combination of several delivery lessons method such as face-to-face interactions, self-paced and individualized learning and online interactions. This has been popularity among our learners in delivering lessons. Improving Accessibility and Connectivity Accessibility and connectivity needs to be improved . This can be achieved through the upgrading of technological infrastructure as well as the lowering of the access fees to a more affordable level . Mobile Learning Initiatives Nowadays, the use of mobiles devices are widespread in Malaysia . One of the effective ways to improve the acceptance of cloud learning Is to leverage on the use of mobile technology that will facilitate mobile learning that will help overcome the problem of accessibility and connectivity. Set-up National E-content development centre Malaysian government need to set up a national content development centre to serve such as coordinate content development, train and develop e-content experts, monitor e-content standards, promoting knowledge sharing among e-learning providers and promote international collaborations in cloud learning. Other than that, national e-learning council needs to be set up to champion e-learning. The establishment of the council will spur the growth of cloud learning in the country
CONCLUSION From my point of view, future learning is we shape today learning process as to prepare students nowadays for the challenge they might encounter in the future. Especially, when they look for jobs. Today older generation should carry the responsibility to educate children to face the things perhaps we could not imagine. Internet based learning is the latest and the most appropriate approach and tools in helping us to catalysed the future learning. Since technology has changing our concept in learning, training and educating. Older generation has to accept the fact that children of today cannot be compared to their time. Old method of teaching in school is obsolete. We cannot deny the importance of a teacher but we have to alter their function. A teacher may only facilitate or monitor them during learning process take place by creating a self-organized learning environment. Our purpose for education is lead the children to develop skill and attitude that are appropriate for critical thinkings and problem solving that might help them to survive the tough world of tomorrow. Let us embrace Sugatas idea, by learning modern methods of teaching we should keep in mind to be innovative, to let our students appreciate that we plan for them and our role here is to guide them to reach a good level of maturity so as to believe in themselves that in reality they can teach themselves. We need cooperation form teachers, parent, educational staff and nation itself in order to make sure whatever change we made today will benefit the generation of future.
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