This video gives a little insight into how education in today's schools is totally irrelevant and lacks the ability to reach the students at there level, Our teachers tend to be lacking the enlightenment and the vision that is required to cope with the future. I often wonder why we as a nation cannot prosper and why we are not even going in the right direction yet. The answer seems to be we Lack the vision our teachers who are expected to be better than the students in some respect to teach them tend to 'appear' better but in reality they are also a product of "Sabak yaad kero beta" philosophy. The examinations are aimed at determining which student has more of the taught subject in his or her memory.
New technology brings forth a lot of new and exciting methods if utilized properly can revolutionize the field of eduction, lot of them are mentioned in the presentation you saw right now,from pod casts to blogs, i have yet to see a university professor in Pakistan that is gathering feedback from his or her students via any method that might make him or her approachable, Blogs can be utilized perfectly for this method yet i see no blog or website aimed at reaching the students and finding out how to teach them better.
here is an example of a website of an APCOMS teacher Sir Hammad bashir http://hammadbashir.com/
he teaches E-Commerce related subjects and you can clearly see from the level of his website that he himself is totally inadequate in teaching a subject related to e-commerce his website seems to be just a page with a Photo some text and his email id???
I don't see a Podcast on his website??
I don't see a Forum on the website to discuss his lectures?? ( Not even a PHPbb Forum which is Free )
I don't see a Feedback system on his website??
and this is the teacher who 'has' a website all the rest don't even have anything to 'Reach' their students!
This is the level of our Teachers???
We are not allowed to have Mobile phones in the class??? Helloooo this is 21st century??? it just shows the immaturity of our teachers and educational institutions.
Nearly Every student has Mp3 players and Mobile phones that can play Mp3 files, Yet i do not see a single teacher who has a Podcast???( Lectures available in Mp3 format to download )
I would have loved to blame a lot of this on the students as well but if you think about it the students are like this exactly because we are not being taught in the way we might learn something which leads to an environment of 'look busy do nothing' This isn't too late we just need young and enlightened teachers/professors not just in our universities but also in elementary and high schools.
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