Hello e- friends,
Today evening I read an article from Mr. Prem Bahadur Phayak. He has been teaching at Tribhuwan University in the central department of English,Kathmandu Nepal. The goal of his writing was to plan and conduct action research which involved changes related to modern technology in class room.
He reveals the bitter truth of having a huge mass of students in majority of the the same section of a college or a university in Nepal. The students have to write a research paper in the final semester of university examination but majority of them have no any background of research writing. Mr. Phayak had been facilitating 20 students implementing modern technology to help them develop their research writing. His students belonged to different geographical topography, economic status interest, reach and interest. His students preferred exploring different materials like books, research reports. They like more interactions and discussions with their facilitator in class which is apparently impossible because of large size class. So the instructors conduct lecturer method ,however the author chooses using modern technology like email, internet and other resources.The students lack internet access and it's new to many of them.
The university library on the other hand lacks international journals so there are limited research works in language education. The other threat to the students is that there is almost 12 hrs power-cut which also hampers the use of internet or the students are compelled to go to the cyber cafe spending a hefty amount of money daily.
To cope with this hazard the author told his students about the importance of email, internet and also helped them open their e-mail id. He prepared his plan based on ABCD style and instructed them with various useful web sites . He told the students to pay him a regular visit to discuss upon the matter they want to know. Later on he found that the students were using the technology effectively. They learnt the usefulness of technology in the field of teaching, research skills, academic writing and so on so forth.
The author found a lot of changes in his students . He admits that in the beginning they had a lot of problems and later on the integration of technology brought a lot of behavioural changes in his students.
This experimental article has brought a kind of courage in me too. Because I'm also new in using modern technology in teaching but in near future I'll deserve a good command over interactive web like the author Mr. Phayak.
Best regards,
Khem Lal Pahari
Today evening I read an article from Mr. Prem Bahadur Phayak. He has been teaching at Tribhuwan University in the central department of English,Kathmandu Nepal. The goal of his writing was to plan and conduct action research which involved changes related to modern technology in class room.
He reveals the bitter truth of having a huge mass of students in majority of the the same section of a college or a university in Nepal. The students have to write a research paper in the final semester of university examination but majority of them have no any background of research writing. Mr. Phayak had been facilitating 20 students implementing modern technology to help them develop their research writing. His students belonged to different geographical topography, economic status interest, reach and interest. His students preferred exploring different materials like books, research reports. They like more interactions and discussions with their facilitator in class which is apparently impossible because of large size class. So the instructors conduct lecturer method ,however the author chooses using modern technology like email, internet and other resources.The students lack internet access and it's new to many of them.
The university library on the other hand lacks international journals so there are limited research works in language education. The other threat to the students is that there is almost 12 hrs power-cut which also hampers the use of internet or the students are compelled to go to the cyber cafe spending a hefty amount of money daily.
To cope with this hazard the author told his students about the importance of email, internet and also helped them open their e-mail id. He prepared his plan based on ABCD style and instructed them with various useful web sites . He told the students to pay him a regular visit to discuss upon the matter they want to know. Later on he found that the students were using the technology effectively. They learnt the usefulness of technology in the field of teaching, research skills, academic writing and so on so forth.
The author found a lot of changes in his students . He admits that in the beginning they had a lot of problems and later on the integration of technology brought a lot of behavioural changes in his students.
This experimental article has brought a kind of courage in me too. Because I'm also new in using modern technology in teaching but in near future I'll deserve a good command over interactive web like the author Mr. Phayak.
Best regards,
Khem Lal Pahari
Hi Khem
ReplyDeleteYour blog is looking great. Nice post about the project from Nepal. I thin it is important to remember that even small changes can make a big difference. If connectivity is low and access to technology difficult, make your final project relatively simple. Rome wasn't built in a day, as they say.
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Thank you Robert sir.I'll try my best to do better.
ReplyDeleteDear Khem sir
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for reading and commenting on my article. Your blog looks great.
Regards
Prem