Today’s education system should aim to create a competent, committed, and confident workforce which is able to withstand the pressure of constant improvement through continuous learning. The development of a requisite set of skills, commonly referred to as 21st-century skills are to be encouraged. The list of 21st Century skills and competencies is given below:
- Information processing skills
- Communication skills
- Media literacy and ICT Literacy
- Thinking and Problem Solving skills:- Inventive Thinking, Creative Thinking, Problem Analysis and solving, Decision Making, Logical Thinking, Critical thinking, Systems Thinking
- Interpersonal and Intrapersonal Skills:- Flexibility and Adaptability, Initiative and Intrinsic motivation, Social and Multicultural Adaptability and Coexistence, High Efficiency and Accountability, Leadership and responsibility
As a teacher, we have a responsibility to equip student teacher with these skills. Traditional learning is monotonous, boring, and unproductive so innovative teaching-learning methods are to be used for this first thing is Multimedia Approach and second is blended learning.
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Teaching Learning Process with the help of Multimedia Approach: – Multimedia is a combination of text, graphic, sound, animation, and video that is delivered interactively to the user by electronic or digitally manipulated means. The multimedia approach uses a number of media, devices, techniques in the teaching-learning process. It can convey vast information and provide many sources from which students can access the information and improves the teaching-learning process. Multimedia approach is not restricted to a single type of learning style. It can provide support to a wide range of activities. It aims at providing meaningful learning experience via a mix of media in order to achieve predetermined objectives. The multimedia approach provides the opportunity to gain mastery of competencies and skills. The choice of the media has to be done carefully so that one does not hamper or reduce the effect of the other. That is each media must complement the other. The multimedia approach enables the learner to get access to information in a dynamic environment.
Teaching Learning Process with the help of Blended learning:- Blended learning is learning that is facilitated by the effective combination of different modes of delivery, models of teaching and styles of learning & applying them in an interactively meaningful learning environment.
Blended learning is a formal education program in which a student learns at least in part through the delivery of content and instruction via digital and online media with some element of student control over time, place, path, or pace. While still attending a “brick-and-mortar” school structure, face-to-face classroom methods are combined with computer-mediated activities.
Defining hybrid or blended education is a trickier task than one might think–opinions vary wildly on the matter. In a report on the merits and potential of blended education, the Sloan Consortium defined hybrid courses as those that “integrate online with traditional face-to-face class activities in a planned, pedagogically valuable manner. Blended Learning can generally be classified into six models:
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