The RISAL Account

Name	RISAL Account
Andy Quan	Andy
Rose Wen	roseyuan
Olivia Zhan	Olivia
Makino Wang	Makino

Session 2 Activity----How Can Success In Innovation

Educational Innovation is to achieve certain goals of education and innovation in the field of education activities. Educational innovation contains the education system, educational structures, educational concepts, educational methods, educational tools, curriculum materials and educational time and space, involving almost all aspects of the field of education. With the development of human society, education has continuously engaged in innovation activities, such as the establishing of schools, textbooks appear, multi-media use, they are all part of the successful educational innovation. For several reasons, the education innovation often will meet some problems

Our discussion is around the problems based on the article which raised by Joyce Wycoff—“The Big Ten Innovation Killers and How to Keep Your Innovation System Alive and Well”. Though the article we summarize the several ways to address the problem about pedagogical practice.

1. What is culture, culture is a driving force to any organization. Without culture an organization just likes a sailing without direction, neither as education innovation. When an education institution does not know which culture it has, Innovation will never be happened in such education institutions. They will develop slow, even stop. Only if the culture will be established with clear direction.
2. Equipment is also a big factor about successful innovation, good innovation without hardware support is just useless. So the government and the leader of the school should put more money on the basic equipment, that with these equipment, innovation class can be come true.
3. Company should have a good Innovative leader, so as education organization. If the principle makes an innovation strategy, that the pedagogical innovation will be boost. If the principle is conservative, so he is the Stumbling block of innovation.
4. Teacher is the soul of the education, if the teacher does not know how to innovation, his class seems so boring that no students will like it. To address this situation the teacher should be trained with innovation course, such as ITE.
5. To have an idea management system that students and teacher can communication online or make course more simple. For example, once teacher want to have a task out of the classroom, he can use the management system to give suggests and guide the students to finish the task.

Overall, there also many other measures to make the innovation successful, but the important thing is the new innovation is whether suitable for the current education.
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By Group

Session 1 Activity----Identify one example from your group of an educational ICT-innovation and it's impact on practice

I think the use of multimedia in today's class is a kind of educational ICT-innovation. As developing student understanding through aligning media to intended learning outcomes, it can effectively capture the learners' attention, especially the younger ones, acting as a springboard for deeper learning as it prompts the learner to think outside the box, beyond a traditional textbook. It makes learning fun for all. It also encourages learners' interaction and fosters collaborative learning among students. Education changes from a two dimensional spoonfeeding transmission to a three dimensional dynamic process. When teachers teach lower primary students English grammar, they use an interactive CD with visuals to help them see how one word has multiple grammatical usage depending on where it appears in a sentence. The use of this medium excited the students and increased class participation as the teacher separate them into teams in the form of a competition. The students learn much quicker in a relaxed fun setting and the grammar concepts sunk in better as they see the variation of how one word can be used in different ways.

In conclusion, in the traditional way, the teacher is the leader.The students just listen to the teachers, take notes and answer questions. With the help of educational ICT-innovation such as computer and multimedia, the teacher is more like a superviser. The students have more chances to learn by themselves, search the internet for information and talk and share the ideas together. The students become the core of the class.

BY:Makino

Session 1 Activity----ICT-Innovation Example

Since the computer is invented, the Information and Communication Technology is then quickly emerged in a global level. Such kind of technology was first used in military. But now it has already been integrated into our daily lives. We make phone calls, search on the internet, meet each others via online videos,send message and so on. The world would be quite different without it.

In traditional, we only communicate with those people who are around us and get the information mainly from our teachers. The information we can get is so limited and may be out of the world tendency. When ICT is applied into education, it not only changes the way teacher teach, but also change the way students learn.Both teachers and students can get the newest information at any time in any places . Teachers' teaching methods are becoming various and interesting. Students can search what they curious about and get it immediately. ICT makes the learning more active. Take my experience on online learning as an example. I used to interested in watching videos online about open classes in other universities. This kind of technology various the way I learn. My learning resource is no longer limited in textbook or what the teachers know, but extended to other countries and other famous teachers that I can not meet. Even though sometimes we missed classing time by accident, we can still review it by videos or just watch it again and again. There is no more geographic or any time limits. It is a kind of innovation when compared to those traditional ways.

ICT not only innovate the technology, but also innovate our lives. So much examples can be found in our life. I believe that the ICT will develop to a great perspective just like we had never thought about its current situation in old days.

By Rose

Session 1 Activity----ICT-Innovation Example

Over the last decade, information and communication technologies (ICT) have enabled changes in the way people live, work, interact and acquire knowledge. New technologies, and especially social computing, provide new opportunities for education and training, as they enhance learning and teaching, and facilitate collaboration, innovation and creativity for individuals and organizations.

The benefits of deploying social computing and ICT for learning is obvious, I’d like to give an example of my real life. In past few years, the traditional way of education is always that the teachers are teaching knowledge in front of the classroom, while students are only listening or sometimes be required to answer a question in the class, and then they do homework after school independently without any deeply discussion with classmates, nor searching some relative information on the internet.

But nowadays, With the help of fast development of Information Communication Technology (ICT), “blended learning” is applied in modern education. It brought a great change to education as it combined both face-to-face learning and e-learning. It built up a new teaching and learning environment for teachers and students. Blended learning offers opportunities to express opinions in various ways, according to students' own preference. For instance, those who are active in class may speak much in discussion face to face while those who are shy may also have chances to express their attitudes online. Learning is not limited at the classroom and even school level. More importantly, all the discussion online is visible, the differences of contribution to the groups and the class will be made clear.

I lifted above is the good example of ICT-innovative.Thank you for reading.

- By Olivia

Session 1 Activity----ICT-Innovation Example

ICT is the synthesis of information technology and communication technology. Education ultimate goal is to develop the student meeting the demand of the information society. ICT in education main guiding ideology is to cultivate the students' participation enthusiasm, motivate them actively to learn. And with the booming of IT, ICT innovation develops speedy.

For example, the traditional translation teaching mode is that teachers teach in accordance with the teaching plan step by step, such as teaching some conventional translation skills, and then let the students do relevant written exercises. Through the exercise, teacher will find out the typical problems and analyze, evaluate, in that way students can benefit from what teachers find. The new technology has brought the new transformation of the teaching method, ICT innovation has certain influence on the effect and quality of teaching.

In translation teaching session, seeing and hearing IT equipment is actually to use electronic multimedia equipment. And another speaking equipment is used in the oral translation course. Students are interested in such a study and pay more interesting on practicing. In that way students have a high level of effect on learning than on traditional learning. That is the ICT innovation’ product.
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By Andy, QUAN Xuhui