Visualizing IoEd helping the 'Less Performing'
Student' (LPS) [1]
A teacher's
main concern in a classroom situation is the 'less than average' student. Let
us call him the 'Less Performing Student' or the 'Less Proficient Student' (LPS). To any diligent and conscientious teacher, the
LPS is not the Least Preferred Student but the one the teacher is most anxious
about. An LPS represents the limits of a teacher's explanatory abilities and
therefore an LPS is an acknowledgement of the teacher's shortcoming if not
failing. So, it is in the depths of a teacher's mind that an LPS be lifted up
on a par with the performers of a classroom.
Developing
fault lines in communication to the LPS might result in eventual blockage in
the LPS' mind and turn him to become a non -performer from being a less
performing student. So how do we ensure that the LPS is not detached from our
train of skill formation? It is the submission here that we must use the
Internet of Education (IoEd) to effective support system for the LPS..
The future of
education is digital. IoEd should be on to assist an LPS
through interconnected platforms from mobiles to on line learning portals, to sensors
to robots to a host of connected devices.
this connectivity is to help the average or sub-par student erase his fear of
non comprehension. IoEd should sense non comprehension instantaneously. This detection
of disquiet in the LPS should be possible through sensors. there should be disturbance
signals that neurons send out. The captured signals will be transmitted from the neurons of the weak student
to the mega centralized robot who will transmit to him immediately the support
systems to break down more simplistically the basics of the information sought.
The knowledge robot(s) will use elements
to dispel their (LPS') doubts from the minds of these students in real time.
(From the unknown to the known) With the
erasure of ignorance, the LPS is protected from being frozen in a shell of non
comprehension. and left behind. It could well be that nanotechnology should
alert the centralized server of doubts
in the mind of the weak student and probable.
So along
with the teachers, technology in the
format of a robot (on the shoulder of the LPS) should intervene. Teachers need
IT professionals to support them in
maintaining the value of educational supply chains. The nanotechnologists and
the robotists would support only till such time as the LPS is back on the
highway of knowledge. Networked, wireless communication between the LPS and the technological environment must take
place instantaneously at the point of non comprehension. Over a period, feedback
from several LPS, should provide teachers with
suggestions about learning obstacles, teaching and update them on
solutions.
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vests with the author of this blog: Jayaram Nayar. He can be contacted at email:
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[1] Note: These strands of thought are a part of the research
work being undertaken by the author on the Internet of Education in Emerging
Economies.
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