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PROFESSIONAL STUDIES ASSIGNMENT 5

KARABEYESER F. 201013150

5/29/2012

INTRODUCTION

Education and Training innovation is a driver of growth and well-being, new technologies, products, services and organisations create jobs and rejuvenate industries – while making others obsolete. To reap the gains of innovation, policy makers need to understand how the way we innovate is changing and what this implies for education and training policies. The higher education system has strengths and immense potential to contribute to the economic and social development needs of South Africa, the southern African region and the African continent. However, the present system also has a number of fundamental problems and developments during the past decade. These problems and weaknesses severely compromise its ability to effectively and efficiently achieve important national goals and serve various social and educational purposes. The proposals of the task team address the fundamental problems and weaknesses of the system. They also identify opportunities for creative and constructive intervention in shaping a system that could yield many more social and educational benefits than currently possible. The key outcomes of the proposal are: making rational the present incoherent, wasteful and uncoordinated higher education system, enabling significant improvements in quality and equity and ensuring that the knowledge and human resource needs of a developing democracy are effectively realised.

It is an important moment for such issues to be raised in South Africa. There is a relatively new Minister, a number of new senior officials, and a newly established Quality Assurance and Qualifications Authority; none are associated with the policies that have been developed around curriculum and qualifications that have had such a chequered and contested history since 1994, The institutions that was always established to last an eternity, that takes pride in its history and tradition, often faces the real prospect of extinction or renewal. The place of privilege that has had to adapt educational forces and many contradictory demands. For centuries self-defining under the rubric of autonomy and academic freedom, universities are seeing their missions being defined by others and having to respond appropriately to visions set for a variety of purposes and the speed of the information society. Such was the environment which welcomed them into what has come to be known as the Decade of Democracy in South Africa. South African universities had modelled themselves on the best of the African universities.

BODY

Over the coming decades the process of learning and education will undergo a profound shift, from the traditional classroom/face to face method of knowledge transfer to a much more abstract model, where teaching will be largely separated from its current physical infrastructure, such as classrooms and campuses, in much the same way as the content of a printed book is becoming abstracted from its physical medium in digitised eBook form.

The Education Revolution linked to two major:

The Knowledge Revolution- the hyper-fast generation of information and knowledge processes

The Cyber Revolution- the transformation of the world’s knowledge base, including all processes and services to digital form, distributed via the Web.

The trends in this revolution are already evident and will become pervasive in the near future on a global basis. They include online teaching access, open content, real-time wireless web delivery, independent courseware provision, virtual reality teaching environments and lifelong education at a personalised level. By 2020- online education will dominate university and school learning. This will allow resources and investment to be more effectively applied to the quality and delivery of courseware- anywhere, anytime. Already a growing acceptance of online learning in major universities and schools has generated the development of hybrid curricula- a combination of online options and traditional face to face classroom teaching and tutoring. However some institutions such as the global Phoenix University already operate solely as virtual campuses, offering global online courseware. The Department of Basic Education understands the need to improve the quality of outcomes at different grades and numeracy, literacy in grade 3 and grade 6, the target is that 90 percent of learners should perform at the required level. However, the performance standard is ambiguous, referring only to minimum competencies in different subjects. We propose that the acceptable level of performance be defined as 50 percent and the target of learners and schools performing at this level by 2030 be set at 80 percent. If 80 percent of schools and learners achieve results above 50 percent on average, it will demonstrate considerable improvement.

In addition, knowledge reference sites such as Wikipedia are providing free semi-structured online courses and books by aggregating existing reference material. This trend will continue, with independent courseware developers eventually dominating the growing market for expanding on-line content. Developing countries such as India and China are also funding massive expansion programs in their schools and universities, for example graduating over 250,000 engineering and computer science students each year; rapidly catching up with the West in the quality and innovation of teaching methods.

VARIOUS NATIONAL INTERNATIONAL INITIATIVES

Teachers use their knowledge of subject matter, teaching and learning, and technology to facilitate experiences that advance student learning, creativity, and innovation in both face-to-face and virtual environments.

The way teachers are able to work towards accreditation with the Smart Classrooms

use and manage a range of ICT resources for information access, development and presentation of materials, communication

Teachers must be able to help their students think creatively and try new things in the classroom

Teachers can model these new ways of thinking by using this approach to their teaching. Looking at real world issues can change students’ outlook and perspectives and provide them with a fuller appreciation for what they are studying in the classroom.

The first day of the lesson the students create a timeline of historical events that will be covered in the course through the entire year. This activity provides the students with perspective and a greater understanding of time for the class. Because the students are encouraged to place the events themselves and work at a team doing it, they grow and learn from one another.

Communication is important in the modern age. There are so many new ways to communicate with students, parents and colleagues. Almost all parents have some form of email or other way to communicate online. Email is more convenient during the school day than other forms of communication like meetings and phone calls. Email should not take the place of face-to-face conferences or phone calls, but for quick announcements, email is quick and easy.

While local ideas are important to the culture that students grow up in, the global world is becoming more and more important each day. Teachers must respect the technology that they have access to and give credit to the appropriate source.

To become more effective educators, teachers must assume responsibility for their own professional growth, performance, and involvement as

and management; The teacher can use emerging

communication and other technologies for teaching and learning,

keep him/herself up-to-date with developments in the ICT field and recognise the relevance of new hardware and software applications for education; understand the need for, and operation of, a local area network.

The teacher can be operate a computer and peripherals confidently; identify ICT hardware resources, e.g. computers, interactive whiteboards, etc.; carry out first-level troubleshooting in computer laboratories; identify minor technical problems and communicate these effectively to support personnel.

individuals and as members of a learning community.

Teachers must never become complacent with their educational methods, including the incorporation of digital tools and resources in their classrooms. Teachers should consistently research new ways to implement cutting edge technologies in their classrooms to enhance student learning

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