Thursday, August 29, 2013

A New Homeland!

Life keeps on taking us towards diversified platforms and we come across versatile experiences throughout our journey. Each new opportunity opens new horizons of perceptions, experiences, ways and means to solve our problems and reach our solutions in life.

A new homeland is at every nook and corner of our life. Going through this process of consistent change has no end in itself rather culminates with each individual at the end of our life journey.

Nevertheless, each one of us views this new homeland in his or her own way and takes advantage out of it according to their own interest, requirements, motives and goals. This new homeland is meant differently to each one of us.

Another dimension of this new homeland is shifting, migrating and moving into another geographical boundry for good in life. The reason being its our birth right to look and stand up for better opportunities offered to us. Therefore, we remain in search of this new homeland and if it materializes for anyone of us he or she is definitely lucky enough to take more advantage from life, more new horizons are open for them, more benefits coming up towards them etc etc.

We are going towards this new homeland to have new experiences and new opportunities to polish our skills more, to develop into better individuals, to be better citizens and above all better human beings to serve more and more people and utilize our skills and education for the betterment of humanity and mankind as a whole.

God has always been gracious and compassionate to those who are kind enough to do something good and have sincere intentions to serve and deliver. For such potential individuals this new homeland is always waiting with open arms to offer them a better life and better plans because they are themselves better prepared, trained and calculated for this new homeland.

Remember friends, 'OPPORTUNITIES ONLY HELP PREPARED MINDS'. Follow your goals, plans and keep dreaming for better tomorrow, you never know when this new homeland comes and knocks at your door. Good Luck to all of you for A NEW HOMELAND!

Thursday, August 15, 2013

Pedagogy in 21st Century! The Digital Era.

Pedagogy means the art and science of teaching. Therefore it addresses all types of skills, methods,strategies and models being exploited to deliver the education process to the students and educational stakeholders at large.

Fortunately, due to influx of technology boom and switching from analog technology into digital technology has brought the whole world at our finger tips with exponential level efficiency and speed. This digital experience is part of our daily routine now and we keep utilizing it according to our needs, requirements and understanding. Digital natives (generation who grew up with technology continues to evolve it today) while a Digital immigrant is an individual born before the existence of digital technology and adopted it to some extent in later life.

This huge change in technology has great impact on human life in the fields of education, business, economy, research, health, and entrepreneurship too. In education particularly technology demands creativity, innovation and higher order thinking skills to integrate in classroom teaching/learning process. Therefore, the traditional methodology of teaching is no more valid and reliable to lay our trust upon for future training of our children's education.

Contemporary pedagogical skills integration is not just confined to classroom teaching rather must focus on broader scale and influence the learner's life in global perspective to turn them into future leaders as technologists, educationists, doctors, business executives, entrepreneurs, social scientists, researchers and global citizens above all.

Learner centered teaching practices require three dimensional activities to be planned, modified and implemented in educational institutions, homes and life patters. Such programs and models must be thought provoking for our educational management consultants, educational stakeholders, higher education institutions and school managers/principals especially to reflect on their skills now.

We need to join hands together to face this global challenge now by invigorating our pedagogical skills in accordance with the 21st century skills to address the needs of digital age learner. Creating new culture in schools, colleges and universities with market driven and opportunity driven teaching and research platforms. Supervise and facilitate our businesses to provide new dimensions of experience to fresh employees in order to transform them into optimum performers. Social entrepreneurs primarily must provide new opportunities of growth and development to contemporary learner for a better tomorrow.

Pedagogy in 21st Century, the digital age is all about being global, being creative thinker and being an innovator to reach solutions of our problems through reflection and practice.

Thursday, August 1, 2013

Are We Surviving Humans?

Life has become quite treacherous for each individual today and each one of us is looking forward for better growth and development opportunities in careers, professions, personal life, society and community, among peers, friends, seniors we always yearn for acknowledgment, success, influence, power and above all confidence to lead and control.
Human beings possess the innate desire of being recognized among his/her fellow beings and to cater this need we always explore and feel inclined naturally towards motives of self-worth. Hence, we keep looking forward for such opportunities around us which could bring us fame, success, confidence and fulfill our needs and ambitions which are worthwhile for our future goals in life.

The world has shriveled as far as the geographical distances are concerned on the contrary the life of each one of us is to a great extent full of problems, disease, desperation, frustration, stress, unnecessary desires etc. Somehow if we all manage to reflect on our life today in this modern technological/digital age the question arises that are we surviving humans like survival of the fittest or are we living in the real sense?