My Smart Plan on Hellen Keller

It is my goal to generate and create awareness among the masses about the most pressing problems of our times. For example, creating awareness about pollution and its consequences for mankind, sensitizing students about the fact that their survival depends on the ecological balance of the planet.

Pollution can result in the destruction of the entire universe. Their feelings, emotions and the whole attitude can be changed by rich audio-video web-based resources along with the training of the mental faculties.

Together, let's use the PLE to give our students a better web learning environment and a better classroom learning experience.  

A lesson plan on Helen Keller can teach students about the common problem of blindness as well as their role in helping handicapped people in society.

It also can teach students the sense of appreciation that God has gifted talents equally to everyone, regardless of caste, creed, racial discrimination, or any mental or physical handicap. 

                          

TOPIC: HELEN KELLER

                                                 

                                                           

TEACHING POINT

TEACHER’S ACTIVIRTY

STUDENT’S ACTIVITY

skills involved and practiced

Introductory Questions

Teacher will use the power point presentation http://www.authorstream.com/Presentation/romasmart-1653305-blindness/  showing pictures of some great personalities from different fields who were visually impaired and will ask following questions. Q1. Which personality impressed you the most? Q2.Why did you admire that personality? Q3. why being handicapped is not a limitation to be successful in life? Q4. Which factors are important to succeed in life. Q5.How a blind person can achieve success in life?  Let us see what were the factors that contributed towards Helen Keller's Success

Students will answer the questions

Internet browsing Finding out authentic study material from internet Working on word processor Developing a power point presentation Animation and customization of power point slides Uploading of Prepared Power Point Hyper linking required sites Internet browsing Working online Finding out authentic study material from internet

Presentation Model reading

The pupil teacher will read aloud from Helen's E-book with proper pronunciation, pauses, articulation and expression.

Students will be taken to online museaum of hellen keller and will be introduced to her life story and will follow the teacher carefully while model reading

Use of educational websites

Pronunciation Drill    Teacher can do this himself or to avoid different accent due to speaking of different languages  teacher can also use google translatorhttps://translate.google.co.in/?hl=en&tab=wT or www.howjsay.com for approriate pronunciation drill  tr

Word Healthy Alabama Parents Disappointed

Phonetic transcription  hɛlθɪ  æləbæmə pɛrənts dɪsəpɔjntəd

Common usage Hell–thee a-lay-b-ma pair-rents dis-a-point-ted

Students will pronounce the word correctly. With the help of the website given

browising,use of asynchronous and synchronous resources

LOUD  READING

The pupil teacher will ask the students to read the online passage  one by one (mistakes will be corrected) http://books.google.co.in/books?id=LM3VxWdQaoYC&printsec=frontcover&dq=helen+keller&hl=en&sa=X&ei=-a0bUYaqLYiurAfzkICgAg&ved=0CDwQ6AEwAQ

Students will participate in reading and can check their pronunciations of  difficult words on trhttp://translate.google.co.in/?hl=en&tab=wT  or http://www.howjsay.com/

online reading skills, use og asynchronous web resources e.g., e-books and other applications

WORD EXPOSITION Teacher will use various devices such as framing a sentence, animation, video or image to make clear the meaning of the word

Word

Meaning

Device /technique

Detailed explanation

Online interactive dictionary can be used http://www.snappywords.com/?lookup=dearl This dictionary will help learners to find out meanings of words and draw connections to associated words. You can easily see the meaning of each by simply placing the mouse cursor over it.

Dearly Disappointed Illness Bright

Very much or very strongly Fail to fulfill the desire or expectation A state of being unwell clever

Sentence Picture http://mrl.nyu.edu/~perlin/facedemo/ teacher can use face applet to make understand the facial expressions picture Sentence

Ramesh loves his parents dearly. Picture showing the face expression Picture showing illness He is a bright student since he always comes first in class

Written Work And Supervision

The pupil teacher will ask the students to copy the words meanings in their exercise books and she will supervise the class.

The students will copy the word meanings in their exercise books.

Silent Reading

Pupil teacher will ask the students to read a bookhttp://books.google.co.in/books?id=ILlGjSjBCP4C&printsec=frontcover&dq=helen+keller&hl=en&sa=X&ei=-a0bUYaqLYiurAfzkICgAg&ved=0CEMQ6AEwAg silently.

The students will read the passage silently.

using e-books, libraries etc.

Comprehension Questions

Comprehension questions based on ppt. and book reading and videos will be asked  Q1.  Where was Helen Keller, born? Q2. What happened when Helen was a baby? Q3. Who was the teacher of Hellen Keller?   Students will be watching the video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gv1uLfF35Uw Q4. What is braille? Q5. Who was the inventor of braille?

Students will answer the questions. Students will answer with the help of video

WORD STRUCTURE

Words would tell her everything she The children Asha I

Wanted to

Know. Have pizza for dinner. Do Ph. D after her masters’ course. Buy new clothes for my birthday

The students will participate and interact to frame a correct Word structure

Recapitulation

Recap will be done by playing a quiz onlinehttp://www.surfnetkids.com/games/helen_keller_quiz.htm

Students will participate  in the quiz

HOME ASSIGNMENT

Students will make a power point on physically challenged people who have touched the heights and will share it through edmodo, e-mail and online interactions.

Helen Keller- A Summary http://www.thinglink.com/scene/357833280088702976?buttonSource=userPage

Technology and Predicament of Reversal

Today our students are much worried about their material possessions there exists cut-throat competition among them to achieve the wordly pleasures in contrast to achieving the spiritual fruits that is a must to preserve humanity in this planet.

Today one who talk about God is considered to be a fool a weak individual and a shirker who don't want to work and looks for an easy way to earn his livelihood

A paradigm shift from Skepticism→ Empiricism→Evolution→God is dead and Sociobiology all has contributed towards the change in divine order which has resulted into a realm of utter confusion, restlessness,darkness and uncertainties for mankind.

We can clearly witness the reversal in moral realm among our students who believe and practice that "if the end is right then don't care about the means", worry about where and not about how.

Learners believe in success without sacrifice, they want to achieve their goal by hook or by crook, hence a reversal in a divine method can be observed which is the root cause of all the problems that exists today.

Today we see the reversal in the intellectual realm also resulting into entirely different thinking of the new generation and this must be the result of change in the mode of passing knowledge from one generation to the other .

Since time immemorial 's knowledge was passed orally followed by scribal tradition, with the invention of printing press by Gutenberg in 1946 the printed tradition came in and the knowledge got saved in books followed by media and finally image tradition, images replaced the words, images started speaking, and we started living in the world of images, images are being used to make the generation think in the desired direction, where the SMILE  of a beautiful model showcasing her beautiful pearl white teeth can make us buy the respective toothpaste irrespective of its chemical composition or other things which are essential to keep our teeth healthy and clean or a Bollywood and Hollywood celebrity deciding for us which cold drink to consume irrespective of the hazards a cold drink can cause to our health.

 "We are governed by images

Our tastes are controlled by images

our ethics are defined by images

our etiquettes are taught by images

our thoughts are controlled by images

we have become the products of images"

My concern is, if the images are governing our thought process then why not use powerful images to look for desired changes in learners behavior, 

In this age of technology and rapid interaction can we as teachers use technology in general and web-based technology in particular and its amazing features to inculcate morals, values, appreciations, emotions and awareness  along with tons of theoretical and factual knowledge so that the genius within our students can be used for the welfare and betterment of mankind.

Can technology strengthen ethical foundations among students making them realize that there blind rush towards materialism and power cannot give birth to any culture.

 Yes friends this is possible, the coming generations can be saved from moving towards utter darkness, distress and turmoil by using amazing technology and its outstanding features in an innovative, creative, meaningful and purposeful way.The fastest technology of communication, "The Internet" can be used to reach the present and coming generations to spread the better ways of leading a contented and happy life.

The popularity of Internet can be calculated by he fact that it took only 4 years to reach 50 million users whereas it took 38 years for radio, while TV made it in 13 years.

Teachers need to utilize the potential and tremendous power of internet and its resources to overcome the perplexing situation of the present world in general and that of our students in particular.

The rich web-resources can be used to sensitize students against the existing problems of the world and that of this own spirit by integrating moral and value-based education along with the subject content and various features of technology eg,. videos, images, animations, and other synchronous and asynchronous resources can be used to attach practical examples from the surroundings. The watching of videos, movies, audios can make understanding and reasoning better than merely delivering a dry and monotonous lecture.

My Smart Plan can help  generate and create awareness among masses about the problems of prime importance eg, creating awareness about pollution and its consequences on mankind, sensitizing students about the fact that their survival depends on the ecological balance of the planet, that the pollution can result into destruction of the entire universe. Their feelings, emotions and the whole attitude can be changed by rich audio-video web-based resources along with the training of mental faculties.