Assignment

Role  of teacher in digital age 

 In today's digital age the role of the teacher remains important and irreplaceable. Students can be smarter in using gadgets. They are also faster when accessing the internet or using a variety of applications, play games, and more in the learning capacity at school and at home. They may assume learning does not have to be with books and at school at certain hours. Learning can be anywhere, anytime, with learning resources from anywhere. Essentially they understand that today, students have unlimited access to space and time. Until sometimes students ignore the teacher's explanation or an appeal to reduce internet usage in times when it is not needed. In the digital era, the teacher plays a key role not as a fellow-learner, but also as a link to the knowledge community, or state of the art in that discipline. Hence in additions to general teaching skills, some more skills are needed to be embibed in a teacher to play his role effectively as a Facilitator of learning. Networking Skills Networking skills facilitate collaborative learning. Not only students, but the teacher too learns and teaches better in a collaborative learning environment. Collaborative Learning Environment of a teacher consists of many individuals and groups. First of all, it is influenced by those Students whom he/she is teaching for the reason that current society is knowledge society. So students already have online access to the material, the teacher wants to teach in the class. Hence they would be having some prior knowledge of the same curriculum influencing and determining what curriculam the teacher is taking up. Technology allows student to become more excitindependent in the class room making use of technology to allow the student to descover solutions to problems both independently and collaboratively. there are many ways in which technology can be  used in the class room to engage students and facilitate exciting ,engaging and interesting lessons .The students love the subject and more interested to learn .It make the student more creative .

Synchronous and asynchronous learning

•  Synchronous e learning: Students and instructor are logged on at the same time and communicate directly and virtually with each other, where all the students must be in the classroom at a certain time for the class to start.This usually takes place via internet, website, audio or video conferencing by students in a classroom. Occurs in real time, learners log into the system at set time and communicate. Involves the exchange of ideas and information directly with the instructor with one or more participants during the same period. 
• Asynchronous e learning: Courseware is served from a web server and delivered on demand to the learners' workstation. It is normally available to learners 24 hours per day, 7 days per week.It is a key component of flexible E-learning. A sender and receiver do not need to synchronize before each transmission, a sender can wait arbitrarily long between transmissions and the receiver must be ready to receive data when it arrives. Beneficial for students having health problems.To complete work in low stress environment and within more time frame.