Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Improve Learning and Teaching Methodologies in India

India now has one of the highest numbers of IT graduates in the world and what is clear that the Classroom now needs to catch up fast with the modem IT environment like Interactive Whiteboards, Visualisers , Voting Systems at the workplace. As we subject young people to technology in the working environment we must now put some of this technology in to education sector creating classrooms of the future. The younger the students are subjected to such an environment the quicker they will adapt to this technology and develop the skills needed for the economy in the future. This is where Genee Technologies India Pvt. Ltd. comes in! The technology includes Interactive Whiteboards (Genee Power Boards), Visualisers (Genee Vision), Voting Systems (Classcomm & Census) and Wireless Slates (Genee Slates). However, this technology is only successful if it incorporates Interactive Learning Software,teaching content.Teaching content is learning content that encompasses several different types of resources used by teachers, including courses, lesson plans and learning objects to teach students. A teaching content develops the interest of students towards the subject that can be missing in the traditional manner of teaching with just book. A teaching content contain learning objectives for all the stages of the education. A teaching content should be well crafted and carefully presented to communicate students the lessons objectives. The important thing to be noted by teachers while designing and developing the teaching content is to understand level of their students. This will create the basic structure of the teaching content to interact with the students. The second step in developing the teaching content is to add ICT (information and communication technology) elements such as audio, video, graphics, animations, computer games etc to implement learning concepts. This is called as ICT based teaching content. The incorporation of the information and communication technology into the teaching content enhances the efficiency of teachers to deliver lessons in an interactive manner creating a synergistic and informative learning environment. The difficult section of the curriculum can be taught in a fun environment and the concepts appear to be full of life by teaching content.Where does this drive, determination and focus come from. Genee Technologies India Pvt. Ltd. feel privileged that can now make this happen in India itself!