The New Way of Education in Modern World

In this era, the world is advancing at very high speed, every field is moving at a light fast speed and every organization and also individuals are excelling every day. In this sense some people are asking about the home schooling system that why this system till now cannot play a role in modern life. Many of the people do not know about the home schooling system. What is this? Some parents find that there is no quality education in school and the teacher who is trying to give individual attention on each student is impossible and can never happen. Also it is difficult for a teacher to give time to each student in a well manner and can convey his messages to all his students.

Like when in a large class room sitting, even if the trainer is expert in his business but he is incapable of delivering individual attention, that is very necessary to help a child grow further in his studies. Rather than teacher, a family or the parents of that particular child are not only devoted more time to his child but also they know him very well personally. They are able to tailor their curriculum and teaching styles in ways that are most conducive to their child's productivity. This individualized attention is one of the advantages of home schooling.

There are many various advantages to home schooling. For instance, parents teach their children one-on-one, rather than twenty- or thirty-to-one in a crowded classroom. With more personal attention, children often understand the material more quickly instead of lagging behind because they don't understand. Parents also like being able to enjoy more time together as a family, instead of a few hurried hours in the evening.

In schools the children are not always looking on books but also they do some other activities as well and most of the children waste their precious time by standing in lines and some other sports or fun related activities so that they can't focus on their studies too well as they are expected to.

There is more than one way for parents to educate their children; we should not assume that home schooling is right for every family and vice versa.

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Education and The Problems Of Modern World

       Education is the constructive, consistent and compelling system of values around which personal as well as social life should be built, a “compelling system of values” –that is to say, it is a “categorical imperative for us to be virtuous and noble. 

        Many great minds never completed even their grade schools like Thomas Edison and Henry Ford but no one can deny that they were super success. When we look at the reason behind this phenomenon, we come to know that they succeeded because they knew how to research, collect information for a selected project and process knowledge. Let me say, the class room environment is not research supporting and only focuses on the covering cramming up some text book topics remaining exam focused. In this process, the innovative, creative, intuitive, and self motivating qualities of students become a victim of catastrophe. Lack of motivation is lack of knowledge processing skills. The usual college graduate will have a professional skill that supplies only life’s basic needs. Even in modern society education focuses only on academic needs of the student throwing vomiting a graduate having well grades but futile for the society. 

        Here arises the question of exams as well; do our exam systems focus on measuring the ability and intelligence of the students? The answer is straightaway a NO. Nor does it focus on the processing and analytic abilities of the minds of the students. 

Knowledge by itself has no value; it is like a dictionary filled with words. Words by themselves have no value; it is the process of stringing them together that gives them value like words combined make meaningful phrases, clauses, sentences and even lengthier compositions. Natural talent is considered no where in this regards. Knowledge only has worth when used with a course of action. Practice in a fake environment is not predictable or measurable. Self-made millionaires are not "A" students in the classroom. The mode they process knowledge is in dissimilarity with classroom main concern. The self-made millionaire has a vision, then he researches specific knowledge, applies intuitive knowledge and process all essentials, searching for a workable way out. Finding unconventional conducts to do ordinary farm duties makes millionaires. The furtive is vision, research and processing, not pre stored knowledge.

       I do not put full blame on the education industry. The conformist corporate culture holds the equal share in this harmful play with the lives of potent individuals turning them down to in futile members of the society as the typical employer wants human resources with dictionary knowledge, not visionaries. They want employees who follow orders, are willing to do tedious tasks, be happy with a limited function, and acknowledge the status quo. Monotonous tasks' is considered as competence and this is where earnings are made. Accepting the status quo prevents the revelation of wrong steps by leaders. Too many blunders and profits disappear. In a status quo environment visionaries become fed up fast and soon take delivery of the troublemaker label by offering alternatives or revealing blunders, sometimes leading to the sack, yet, their ideas boost efficiency and create new sources of profits for the company. In the extended drag, visionaries are the one’s who make above average income no matter what their formal education level.

        The education system now has the tools to kill off this type of person, behavior control drugs! As these students move into the personnel, status quo and blunders will kill off the typical business.

        What can be considered a quality education? Referring to the first paragraph, a quality education is norm design that addresses the exceptional talents of each student and has a positive emotional experience. Custom education evaluates natural talent and how the student learns. This is why home schooled students out perform classroom students. Parents become skilled at what works and what does not work. Then focus on what works. With this method, students develop a love to learn and learning becomes a lifelong procedure. This is the point where we may call it future-oriented.

       The future-oriented education is about advancement and escalation even when we are studying the precedent. Thus the side of thinking we should lean to focus upon is learning and investigation of what has been learnt.

        As a conclusion we can say that Education is not the mere possession of book knowledge, or a literalism that one can show off to impress one’s fellow men. Real education is a process one’s embryonic qualities (physical, mental, moral, and spiritual) are called to mind, fostered and refined, so as to fashion out an ideal human individual, capable and willing to play his part for the betterment of human race.

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http://www.dirmaxe.com/articles/education-and-the-problems-of-modern-world-4/

Why Online Education Is Growing

       Distance education of one sort or another has been around for a long time. Correspondence courses helped people learn trades on their own free time, while radio or taped television courses educated students in remote areas. Now, with the rapid expansion and evolution of the Internet, online education has become a reality. What began as a convenient means of offering internal training to employees via corporate intranets has now spread to the general public over the worldwide web.

       Online-only colleges and career schools have flourished, and traditional ground-based universities are moving courses and degree programs onto the Internet.  It’s now possible to earn a degree from an accredited college without ever setting foot on campus, and more people enroll every year.

Evidence of Growth

       The Sloan Consortium, a non-profit foundation, conducts yearly surveys investigating online education. Their most recent report captured the online learning landscape as it stood in 2007-2008, revealing that

• 20% of all US college students were studying online at least part-time in 2007;
• 3.9 million students were taking at least one online course during Fall 2007, a growth rate of 12% on the previous year;
• This growth rate is much faster than the overall higher education growth rate of 1.2%.

Higher Education: Meeting The Need For A Skilled Workforce

       Higher education in general has grown greatly. Census data shows that in 1980, only 32% of US adults under 25 had earned a degree or completed any college coursework. By 2000, this number had jumped to 52%. Prosperity has played a role in this growth: as median incomes have risen over the past several decades, more people have been able to afford to send their children to college. Political support for putting people into college education, via Federal funding such as Pell Grants and loans, has also helped increase access to higher education.

      However, the main driver behind the increase in higher education is the huge change in the overall economy of the US over the last fifty years. Changes in technology and globalization of the economy means the once-large manufacturing base of the United States has dwindled. Those jobs accounted for 40% of workers in 1950, but by 2000 had shrunk to include only 18% of the workforce. Most workers are now employed by the service sector, where more specialized skills are often a necessary requirement for finding a job. As a result, some post-secondary education is now seen as critical for workplace viability by a majority of the population.

Online Education: Meeting The Needs of the Skilled Workforce

 

      And a majority of the population is now online: in 1997, less than 20% of US households had Internet access. By 2007, that percentage had grown to 61.7%. Internet access took only 7 years to reach 25% of US households, compared with 35 years for the television and 46 for household electricity. As with music, television, and newspapers, higher education needs to move to where the people are if it wants to expand its user base. Also, traditional campuses are having trouble maintaining facilities that meet the growing college population’s needs.  While the cost savings of running an online degree program aren’t tremendous (or at least aren’t a driving concern for university officials), it’s generally easier for colleges to move programs online than it is for them to build extensions to their campuses.

       The sagging economy has also been good for online education.  The Sloan Consortium’s findings revealed that many institutions expect more working adults to turn to continuing education to build new skills or enhance existing ones to better their chances in the job marketplace, and also to avoid paying higher fuel costs as commuter students.

       This is probably a safe bet: nearly 90 million adults participate in some form of continuing education every year even during good times, according to Census data. The convenience of being able to complete a degree without giving up employment makes online education attractive to working adults. As those adults strive to continue earning, they’ll want to continue learning.

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http://www.edarticle.com/article.php?id=1125

Overcome Dyslexia And Learning Disabilities With Modern Technology

Dyslexia is one of the most common learning disabilities in children and in many adults, which hinders a person's reading, writing, spelling and speaking ability. Many people with dyslexia often suffered from difficulties with reading and spelling properly. In recent research shows that dyslexia is not an intellectual disability, it is considered both a learning disability and a reading disability. Dyslexia and IQ are not interrelated too, for reading and cognition develop independently in individuals who have dyslexia.

Not all dyslexics displays the same symptoms, the severity of dyslexia can vary from mild to severe. Some may be mildly dyslexic and may only have a few or even none of the symptoms, some have severe symptoms which affect a person's life. Although there is a learning problem, many sufferers can still become successful in life. As far as treatment concerned, the sooner dyslexia is treated, the more favorable the outcome, it is never too late for people with dyslexia to learn to improve their language skills.

Nowadays dyslexia can be considerably tackled with proper therapy, training and equipment, dyslexic people will benefit from modern technology products. There are many tools and resources to combat dyslexia or learning disabilities, help people cope with their disabilities and difficulties.

Audio devices such as tape recorders are helpful, users can listen to what they have recorded repeatedly. Similarly, users can take advantage of text to speech software programs. Panopreter Plus is a text-to-speech and text-to-mp3 software program, it reads out characters, words, phrases or files in file formats of txt, rtf, doc, pdf and web pages with natural sounding voices, and converts them to spoken audio files in wav and mp3 file formats, the volume and rate are adjustable. By using this text to speech software, users can hear a natural voice speech on the computer, or export audio files to an iPod, smart phone or portable mp3 player, and listen to them later at their convenience, this can improve user's pronunciation and listening skills dramatically.

Voice-enabled electronic dictionaries which give word definitions, synonyms , antonyms, and pronunciation are also helpful. If spelling and grammar are the major problems, there are spelling and grammar devices that have spell-checkers to correct your spelling, and grammar checkers for your grammar correction.

Besides utilizing above technology resources to get help with dyslexia, many other treatments and exercises that can be done to speed up the treatment and help process. With the proper training and treatment, dyslexics can overcome their dyslexia symptoms and lead normal and productive lives.

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http://www.edarticle.com/article.php?id=1248

Modernizing Education through Computer Technology

Cavite School of St. Mark

Any school that wants to offer a modern curriculum -- meaning, one where computer technology is a major component -- faces several hurdles. Their tight financial conditions usually mean that they have to content themselves with no-name clones.

Cavite School of St. Mark, a family-owned, non-profit, non-stock school offering both basic education and tertiary courses in Bacoor Cavite, has to face these hurdles.

"The other year, we upgraded our computer systems. We had been teaching Wordstar and Lotus on XTs, and believed that we should modernize both the hardware and software," explains Mr. Ariel J.V. Arias II, school administrator of Cavite School of St Mark.

"So we purchased several clones under a three-year maintenance contract which we canceled before its completion because we were not happy with their reliability. We did manage to start teaching Microsoft Word, although the frequent breakdowns diminished the efficiency of the educational delivery. So last year, we started looking at branded computers."

The Viable Option

"Our most viable option, given our cash flow, was leasing," continues Mr. Arias. "We chose Fujitsu Philippines, Inc (FPI) in part because the interest rates were lower than the IBM resellers'."

Mr. Arias adds, "Furthermore, Fujitsu committed a one-day delivery schedule. We were talking directly to the manufacturer, not through a reseller, so that helped. We completed the purchase on June 7, 2001."

St. Mark's hardware from Fujitsu consists of 22 800Mhz Pentium-III Fujitsu Deskpower desktop computers, a Fujitsu Lifebook P-1000, and various printers and uninterruptible power supplies (UPSes).

The 20 PCs will be used in the laboratory and offices, the other two at their hospital in Quezon City. The Lifebook is assigned to Mr. Arias.

"You might be interested to know that we have Internet access in the computer lab, through Bell Telecomm wireless broadband. That's why we have an antenna on our roof," says Mr. Arias. "We encourage our students to use the Internet to augment their studies. We're proud of the fact that this Internet access is already incorporated in the fees that they pay, in contrast with other schools where access to the Internet is additional."

Free of Distractions

Mr. Arias expects the computer classes to be free of distractions caused by hardware failures, so students and teachers both can concentrate on learning the software.

The inherent reliability of the hardware, the assured supply of the hardware's electrical power (thanks to the UPSes), and the broadband connection to Bell's network, all assure smooth and continued Internet access.

Obsolete-free equipment

"The processing power of the computers means that we are insured, to a certain extent, against obsolescence," says Mr. Arias. The recent availability of systems based on the Pentium-IV notwithstanding, "the current configuration should serve us for maybe three more years," says Mr. Arias.

"When we were using clones," he adds, "we wanted a one-to-one student-to-computer ratio, but with the breakdowns, we were forced into two-to-one. The Fujitsu solution should get us back to 1:1 again soon."

"We plan to upgrade the multimedia capabilities, possibly with DVD (Digital Versatile Disk) drives," continues Mr. Arias.

Source:

http://www.fujitsu.com/ph/casestudies/st-mark.html

An Education by E.M. Silao

            In my nineteen years of existence, education plays a vital role in my life. Schooling for me since then is full of fun. It was making me learn to read, write, spell words and express myself. I got the opportunity to read books in English and History, solve problems in mathematics and enjoy the physical activities in education. I owe my success in life and school to my teachers who taught me to be respectful and responsible. For those who argue that school’s usefulness is shallow and deeper-real-life experiences truly educate a person are partially right; however, school should be seen not only a place to study but as a place to learn about real life. People cannot depend on experiences alone nor solely rely the information in the school books. It must go hand-in-hand to prepare us for real life situations.

            School’s mission is to nurture the student’s character for them to have better future. The longer a student involved in school, the more possibility that he/she will be successful someday. A school imparts values to the students. Respect is one of the values learn in school. I grew up respecting my elders, whether it was my grandparents, parents or my teacher. I have always had respect on them. I have developed my respect for teachers because I will need their help to survive and make it through the school everyday. During my elementary years, I remembered bowing my head to greet every teacher I encounter in the lobby. It was my way of showing respect to the teachers who taught me as a respectful student. Although being respectful is not found in the pages of textbooks, learning lessons about respect is very helpful. I experienced during second year high school that I had a teacher who was so strict and inconsiderate. It was the time my respect was being challenged. My Mathematics teacher was one of the cruel people I ever met. With my classmates, we cut class during her time but she caught us in the campus and scolded us. I hated going her class, half the time. But by the end of school year, I realized that she was one of the best teachers I ever met. She just wanted to give us more knowledge and understand the usefulness of geometry in life. Learning to put feelings aside and appreciate the teacher as an educator is much more important than having fun in every class.

            Gradually, I learned that different situations in school called for different levels of respect. Sometimes I found myself get jealous of my friends who did better than me in the examination, even though I studied and tried my hardest in the exam but still I did badly. Instead of hating a classmate because she did better on an exam than I did, I learned to respect her ability. In grade five, I started joining athletics in our school. Sometimes I won in the competition, sometimes I failed. One time I was defeated in our game, I cried hard because of being a failure in our team. Accepting the fact that I would not always win in a game, I began to respect my effort as I do my best and respect the talent of those around me.  Conversation with friends definitely requires respect, but discussion with a teacher requires more respect. The longer I was in school, the more I realized that I had learned to gain respect not only for teachers, but for my friends and myself. I learned to respect my teachers and friends as people who were trying to help me. Respect is not only applied in school, but it can be also applied in every single day you mingle another individual.

            Since a person cannot get through life only with respect, schools also provide students with another lesson that can be applied in real life-responsibility. Responsibility is an instance of being responsible individual. I grew up as a responsible child by helping my parents in our household chores. I was also the right hand of my mother in times of doing tasks in our house. Furthermore, students have also chores in school, and if they are not done doing it they will be punish. I had experienced it in grade-four where we did not finish our cleaning task. Our teacher assigned us in gardening for one week with regards in our misbehavior. School becomes a much bigger responsibility because it has the potential to affect the student's life in and out of school. School acts not only as a way to create responsibility, but as a place for students to practice what they have learned. In grade-six, I became the leader in our cleaning team where we are responsible in cleaning the room and garden every Monday. I developed my leadership skills so that my teacher can trust me and see me as a good student. In fourth year high school, my teacher chose me to record the attendance in the class each morning. I started to notice that my teacher trusted me and I became the favorite one. I slowly began to understand the significance of responsibility and started to realize that I gained it.

My understanding of responsibility grew deeper as I went to school every day from elementary to high school. It was my responsibility to ride in a jeepney, make my assignments and do my school works in time. I was lucky to have teachers who trusted me and gave me encouragement to learn more in life. By the time I graduated in high school, I wanted responsibility. It means that I had enough confidence to be responsible on the works to be given to me. I owe my teachers a lot for getting me where I am today by helping me learn responsibility and respect.

Like respect, the responsibility I learned in school become very helpful in my journey in the outside world. Responsibility comes when you realize that there are many important decisions you had to be made. I do believed in the saying that, “what you will be tomorrow depends on the choices you make today.” If you are responsible enough to choose the right or wrong decisions in life, you might become a successful individual. One choice can produce lifelong consequences either good or bad. Responsibility is one of the major values that a person should learn not only in school but also in the community.

            School is to teach information about history, physical and earth sciences, and how to add and divide. All these things help to get good grades in school, but will they really help me in the long run or are they as important as the lessons learned through experience? I think it is the goal of teachers and schools to prepare me with realistic information in facing with real-life situation like handling responsibility and gaining respect for authority. School has helped me understand some of the problems in life; when I fail a test that I studied eight hours for, it parallels me trying my hardest in running 1,500m but still loss in the game. School alone cannot prepare anyone for life, but neither experience alone can suffice. I would not be in college hoping to one day be a teacher if I had not studied hard in school and listened to the advice, criticism and praise of my teachers along the way.

School can sometimes be boring, I cannot fight with that, but school is the only way to develop our skills, attitudes, characters and values in life. Learning how to gain respect and keep responsibility paved the road of success in the future. According to Tom Bodett, “The difference between school and life; in school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.” By applying the lessons learned in school to real life situations, a person is more likely to succeed in life.