Impact of Globalisation in Higher Education

 

Education is undergoing constant changes under the effects of globalisation. The effects of

Globalisation on education bring rapid developments in technology and communications are

foreseeing changes within school systems across the world as ideas, values and knowledge, changing

the roles of students and teachers, and producing a shift in society from industrialisation towards an

information-based society. It reflects the effect on culture and brings about a new form of cultural

imperialism. It brings rapid developments in technology and communications are foreseeing changes

within school systems across the world as ideas, values and knowledge. The rise of a global society,

driven by technology and communication developments are shaping children, the future citizens of

the world into ‘global citizens’, intelligent people with a broad range of skills and knowledge to apply

to a competitive, information based society. The future of countries often lies within their ability to

compete in a global market where industrial based economies are giving way to knowledge based

industries, realising the importance of "knowledge, skills and the intellectual capacity to meet the

challenges of accelerated change and uncertainty

 Education is becoming a lifelong learning and

training process, developing transferable skills and knowledge that can be applied to competitive

markets where knowledge and information is being traded as a commodity.

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The Role 

Of  Male Teacher In Kindergarten 

 

 

 

 

 

The importance of Face Painting for kids

Paintings have always been adored by people and displayed to serve as stunning decorations. While regular paintings are often seen at exhibits and in homes, though, face painting for children is now seen as a fun activity at events. In fact, it is often a must-have activity at celebrations today.

Why Kids Love Face Painting

There are numerous reasons why face painting is such a hit in kids’ parties, but the most notable ones are the following:

• Colorful—children love colorful things, and that’s one reason why parties generally showcase a splash of colors, both in terms of decorations and food. That’s also the primary reason why face painting has become a popular party activity.
• Artsy—although some might disagree, children generally have a penchant for artsy things; they tend to have a knack for choosing colors and are very open when it comes to appreciating designs.
• Magical—great imagination. That’s one thing children always have—no wonder why they love face painting, which allows them to become a character they adore, be it their favorite superhero (e.g., batman) or a fairy princess.

Face painting is often requested at special events for children to enjoy. The kids choose their favorite from a variety of different designs on the full face chart or the cheek art chart.

Popular Face Paint Designs

As an experienced children’s entertainer, I offer a handful of cute and cool face paint designs, which are divided into two categories, namely, the full face art and cheek art. Some popular full face designs are the following:

 

There may be a many reasons why children pick a particular face paint design. However, perhaps the biggest reason is that it allows them to become the character they want to be. For boys, Batman and Spiderman face make them feel as if they are really a hero who’s out to save the day, fighting villains and saving damsels in distress. Quite similarly, for girls, the Princess.

Importance of Finger Painting in Preschool

 

 

 

 

Finger painting can help your child learn.

While you might not put finger painting at the top of the list when it comes to learning in preschool, this artsy endeavor is actually an important part of your little one's early education. Although simple art, such as finger painting, seems like child's play -- and it certainly is -- it is also a teaching tool that can help preschoolers build motor skills and more.

Fine Motor Development

Your preschooler is beginning to develop more precise and controlled hand and finger movements, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics' Healthy Children website. Although she can now do things like zip her jacket or feed herself with a spoon, your little learner still needs an array of activities that boost fine motor development. One way that preschools often help kids build up finger and hand skills is through art activities. Finger painting allows your child to literally test these growing finger skills by using her hands as painting tools instead of a brush. Finger painting may seem easy, but it can involve complex movements of the hand that can build hand-eye coordination, muscle control and dexterity.

Other Content Areas

Finger painting isn't just an art activity. If you think that your child's preschool finger painting activity will only build up his artistic abilities, think again. The early childhood educator, or you as the teacher at home, can use finger painting to teach other content areas. For example, the child development experts at PBS Parents suggest using finger painting to help preschoolers learn about basic math concepts such as shapes. Kids can use this messy medium to spread across a piece of paper. Using a subtractive method, your preschooler can make shapes in the paint and let the paper underneath show through. Another content area that preschools may tie to finger painting is science. Preschoolers can experiment with color mixing by blending the primaries -- red, blue and yellow -- with their fingers.

Creativity

Process-based art activities that allow preschoolers to explore and experiment can help young children to build creativity. Finger paint is an important part of this process in the preschool setting. Unlike a coloring sheet or a cut-and-paste activity that are more finished-project oriented, finger paint is typically more experimental. Finger painting activities allow the young child to work with the medium, moving it around, blending it and creating anything from an abstract expression to a family portrait to explore his own creativity.

Literacy and Vocabulary

As the teacher experts at Scholastic note, vocabulary development is a key part of building early literacy skills. While your preschooler isn't ready to read the classics yet, his school will help him to build the basics of literacy. Instead of setting aside a special time for vocab -- like your older child might have in school -- preschool teachers may choose to use other activities, such as art, to help the children to learn new words. The interactive process of finger painting is an important way that preschoolers can learn new words such as color vocabulary or sensory words like slimy, squishy or sticky.

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References

• Healthy Children: Hand and Finger Skills of Your Preschooler
• PBS Parents: Finger Paint Math
• PBS Parents: Creative Arts: 4 to 5
• Dilly Dali Art: Process Art Fingerpainting
• Children's Museum of Manhattan: Art
• Scholastic Teachers: Early Literacy: Building Vocabulary to Build Literacy

About the Author

Based in Pittsburgh, Erica Loop has been writing education, child development and parenting articles since 2009. Her articles have appeared in "Pittsburgh Parent Magazine" and the website PBS Parents. She has a Master of Science in applied developmental psychology from the University of Pittsburgh's School of Education

Finger painting can help your child learn

While you might not put finger painting at the top of the list when it comes to learning in preschool, this artsy endeavor is actually an important part of your little one's early education. Although simple art, such as finger painting, seems like child's play -- and it certainly is -- it is also a teaching tool that can help preschoolers build motor skills and more.

 

The Role of the Mass Media in the Education of Children

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Our greatest challenge … is the influence of the mass media of entertainment on our families, our children and our grandchildren. The media, for good and for ill, is the primary teacher of our youth. There’s hope though – children can be taught to be media-wise, and the entertainment industry can be turned toward the good, the true, and the beautiful. (We need) to teach children to be media wise, (to) understand the wide influence of the mass media, and (to know) how to redeem the industry. This (article) covers: The Media’s Influence on Different Stages of Development; Understanding the Mass Media; Asking the Right Questions; and, Using and Influencing the Media for the Good, the True, and the Beautiful.


 This is an edited version a paper originally given at the World Congress of Families VI in Madrid on Sunday, 27th May, 2012.
 

The important role of mass media in education

 

The education of our children has always been emotive and when the mass media is added to the mix, volatility is inevitable.

Hardly a country in the world is spared controversy in education, but when one looks behind the sometimes anarchic scenes, there is a lot about which to be optimistic and hopeful.

Traditionally, the mass media and education have enjoyed a love-hate relationship. On one hand television and newspapers particularly, have provided extensive and extremely useful education content. On the other, however, their newsrooms never seem to hesitate when controversy rears is ugly head.

In theory, it is absolutely vital for the mass media to keep an eye on the way in which governments administer and develop education, but it has to be said that in this day and age of a battle for survival within the mass media industry, the watchdog does tend to become somewhat rabid at times.

Like most businesses the mass media often takes a line of least resistance when problems occur and a first step always seems to blame the trades union movements.

In South Africa the South African Democratic Teachers Union (SADTU) inevitably faces tremendous criticism from the mass media when its members protest the enormous challenges and deprivations they face in the classrooms. Many of those challenges having very little to do with actual teaching.

Regrettably, the relationship between the mass media and education involves a lot of indulgence in blame-games and reaction by both sides to superficial symptoms

Education in refugee camps

 

               

ICT has become an essential tool for humanitarian aid work, and its role in both education and healthcare throughout sub-Saharan Africa is indispensable: particularly its use in educating large groups of young refugees, from diverse backgrounds and with varying levels of basic education and literacy. The eLearning Africa News Service took a look at the inspiring way ICT is being put to use in the world’s largest refugee camp to provide young refugees with personalised education and a brighter future.
The largest refugee camp in the world is located in Dadaab, in north-eastern Kenya, 100 km from the Somali border; more than 500,000 refugees reside here, many of them displaced by the civil war taking place in southern Somalia. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has been working to provide not only food and healthcare for the camp’s residents, but also educational opportunities for its more than 80,000 young people. To achieve this, they have been integrating solar-powered technologies to support ICT delivery in the 39 primary and secondary schools and 4 vocational centres in the camp.
The difficulty in educating such a large and diverse population using traditional educational tools is in addressing language barriers, illiteracy, and the high drop-out rate found throughout the camp. Making the task more difficult is the absence of necessary infrastructure, materials and qualified teachers. This is where ICT is making a difference: the use of computers and portable devices has allowed young people to obtain quality education in a safe and secure environment, taking part in eLearning programmes that can be adjusted to the needs of the individual student.
The close-knit community in the camp has played an important role in the design, sustainability and success of the project, with meetings attended by teachers, students and parents at every stage of its creation. Additionally, each school was responsible for designing solutions to the challenges of security and computer maintenance, as well as for sourcing additional funding to ensure the project’s sustainability. Erin Hayba, Associate Community Services Officer at UNHCR and a speaker at the upcoming eLearning Africa conference in Namibia, has been involved in the project for several years and explains the situation:
“When working with communities, particularly in a refugee camp, I believe that it is crucial to involve various members of the community in every aspect of a project, from planning to implementation and beyond. Refugees in Dadaab Refugee Camp had expressed the need and desire for increased access to, and training in, technology. Involving community members from the beginning helped to not only design a project plan that met the needs of the community, but also built in ownership and interest within the community, which will lead to the sustainability of the project. In addition, it has helped build the capacity of these stakeholders to explore and develop solutions to challenges they face.
“This particular project that I have worked on to bring computers, Internet and solar power into the schools has sparked a new trend amongst the refugee community and partner NGOs to be innovative. Implementing change and innovation is often extremely difficult, with many hurdles to overcome, including dealing with naysayers. Innovation, in my mind, happens when people come together with varying perspectives, experiences, and knowledge to address a challenge and work toward a solution. Once a solution proves viable and people see positive results, this encourages more innovation to occur.”
The stakeholders involved in the project have been brought together to find innovative uses of ICT in education, particularly within the harsh and volatile environment of humanitarian work. And because the schools and communities are encouraged to participate in the design and implementation, as well as to invest in their own learning, the solutions found are more sustainable and appropriate. It has sparked a wave of innovative thinking within school- and education-focused humanitarian organisations. As a result, a foundation of learners, teachers, and community members who are more knowledgeable about ICT in education has been developed, creating a platform from which eLearning can grow and flourish.
Erin Hayba is a keynote speaker at the upcoming eLearning Africa 2013 in Namibia. For more information on the UNHCR ICT programme see here. You can register for the event here.

 

 

The Impact of ICT in Entertainment

      ICT has impacted entertainment and leisure byenhancing and providing us with different waysin which we would casually spend our time.With the use of these technologies, the ways inwhich we can entertain ourselves hasdramatically increased.                     

   Impact of ICT on Entertainment• An advantage to this is that anyone can get access to almost anything on the internet from online games to videos on youtube• However, the development of these technologies has meant that many people stay inside, watch TV, play online games etc. Therefore you couild say that the amount of leisure activivies that people do have decreased with aspect to the wide range of entertainment technologies.

 ICT has made a huge impact on entertainmentand on how we spend our time casually. Thisindicates that the increase in technologiesprovides us with more ways of entertainingourselves. Many things that did in the past cannow be done on the computer more easily.Now almost anyone can easily get access tothings like music, music videos and online gameswith the touch of a button.                     

 

 Examples of Entertainment in ICTICT provides users with a great number of entertainment.Here are the main ones:Playing computer games can be a popular leisureactivity. They are published for personal computers. Anindividual player can play against the computer or cancompete against other players.The internet is used as a channel for the distribution ofmusic through music download websites.Using ICT enables you to communicate with others andsocialise online with friends using certain websites likeFacebook.The next slide explains some of these in more detail

 

 Music in ICT• Back in the 1950’s there were only vinyl records and the radio. Today we listen and gather our music in a number of ways which all consist of ICT.• The invention of the compact disc made a huge leap in sound quality- no more hiss crackle in the old vinyl records.• We can pay for a music track in an online music store and download it to our computer, laptop or personal mp3 playerAdvantages: ICT allows you to have many ways of listening to music, on the move or through our living room Disadvantages: The music indsutry is so concerned about illegal copying that Digital Rights Management (DRM) methods have become common. These sometimes cause a problem when trying to listen to perfectly legal music.

 

  VideosNow It is so easy for anyone to catch up with anyTV episode they have missed or any programmesby going online and watching it. Many of the mainTV channels such as BBC and ITV have their ownwebsites and players like bbc iplayer where anyonecan watch something they missed on that certainchannel.The good thing is that you only need access to acomputer and internet and you can watch itwhenever you feel but the bad thing is that thevideo can be slow and take time to load.

 

  Bibliography• http://www.teach- ict.com/gcse/theory/social/miniweb/entertainment. htm• http://wiki.answers.com/• http://igadgetlife.com/wp- content/uploads/2008/06/bbc-iplayer-beta.jpg• https://www.google.co.uk/imghp?hl=en&tab=wi

 

Use ICT IN Fashion Design

The use of ICT for administration and information management in early childhood education

Although computers and ICT are likely to be used in planning, administration, and information management in many early childhood education settings, there is little research which specifically investigates this aspect of ICT use in early childhood education. ICT also presents opportunities for sharing and exchange of information between different services and agencies involved in children’s care and education, but it is difficult to locate examples of this in the literature.

Some relevant messages can be drawn from international literature about computerisation of systems for managing and sharing information about children who are looked after by social services. For example: the need for systems to make it easy to enter information and produce reports that save on administrative work; the need to establish common goals between ICT specialists, managers, and those who gather and input data; and the need to establish common data exchange standards to allow for data transfer between systems. Individual early childhood education centres may be using a variety of business and education administration packages. This may offer flexibility for individual centres to customise packages for their specific needs. However, it may also reduce the ease of communication and exchange of information between different systems and different locations.