PROFESSIONAL TOOLS FOR TODAY’S EDUCATORS

In a world where educators play pivotal roles in sculpting the future of students it is imperative that they are empowered with tools and tactics that make their work simpler, exciting and more engaging.

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This session just talks of that how teachers can collaborate with many students at one time, asserting students with freely available resources and tools thus making their way easily through the complexities of learning through the net. Information on tools that help teachers maintain a free classroom website, engage students through fresh happenings while expanding their vocabulary and easy to mould into virtual classrooms. Exciting tips on carrying knowledge in your pocket without worrying about the baggage, inviting students to a dynamic free site that answers to any diction, get access to the best of secrets on conversions, confusing words, maps creators and lots more on games too. Join the informative and fun based session that will enrich you to be more organized and most comfortable with the internet advantage coupled with few interesting paraphernalia that you will learn nowhere else but only here.

Gupteswar Rao

An M.Sc in Physics (First Class 2nd in University -1970), Educator & Motivator, having more than 38 years of school experience and spent 1½ years in US. As an ardent user of web technologies, softwares and resources available, is keen on exploring the global ways of learning.

Job Satisfaction ….an ongoing experience!

“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”-Mark Twain

Variety: Is indeed the spice of life

coming close on the heels of job satisfaction is the fact that one alleviates boredom at work.The very first signs of creeping boredom have to be done away with,where work is in the picture.The bored mind lacks interest and enthusiasm and even a well-matched job becomes not satisfying. Some common methods to alleviate boredom at work include:

• Training across domains and functions and learn new skills
• Try taking up new assignments or move across departments that require the same skills.
• Experiment with different shifts,meeting new people and experiencing newer environments
• Don't hesitate to take up new responsibilities
• Take breaks or holidays to break the monotony at work

Positive Attitude is all that it takes.

Its your upfront view that will help you perceive your job and your life in general.Being depressed, angry or frustrated, you're much less likely to be satisfied with anything. Making a change to a positive attitude is a complex process that requires a lot of work and a strong commitment. However, over time, you can turn your internal dialogues around and start to see most events in your life as positive and worthwhile. Here are some tips:

• Stop negative thoughts from entering your brain.
• Reframe your thoughts to the positive.
• Put the events of the day in the correct context.
• Don't dwell on setbacks.
• Commit to viewing obstacles as challenges.
• Accept that mistakes are simply opportunities to learn.
• Become an optimist.

Know Your Options

When you feel trapped, you can start to get anxious. At first you wonder what else is out there for you. This progresses to the point where you become convinced that anything other than the job you're doing has got to be more satisfying. To combat this, continuously scan your environment for opportunities. When you feel you have options, you have more control. When you make a positive choice to stay with a job, that job has much more appeal than if you feel forced to stay because you feel you have no alternative.

• Keep a list of your accomplishments.
• Update your resume on a regular basis.
• Keep up to date on employment trends.
• Research other jobs that interest you.
• Adopt an 'I’m keeping my options open' approach.

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Self Awareness

The very first requirement for a person to be at the job and to actively involve oneself is to introduce yourself to you. To be successful is one half of the glass the other half is being able to identify your strength and weaknesses. Because in true sense only the right evaluation of strengths will enable to build on the positives and a personal realization of weakness will help evaluate the wrongs and convert them into strengths.

It's always convenient to say that you dislike your job or are not satisfied with it but in reality can you say that you did the right thing by taking up that job in the first place? Take a long decisive look at the qualities you excel in and then try to find a position that uses some of those skills too. Yet one of the differentiating factors of self-awareness is to have a good understanding of your personality traits and your preferred style of working.

Improving self-awareness can assist you towards the perfect package of good compensation, rewards, power and a realistic goal. Knowing this will help one to stop being idealistic or fantasize achieving tall gains, instead setting appropriate goals and managing one’s expectations realistically.


More the similarities between your job and the requirements, greater are the chances for you being happy at your job and as for the rest of the constituents they would prod you to achieve the maximum from the said job.

Challenges

Everyone might hate or love a challenge depending on the earlier point of self awareness, if one chooses well you might end up loving your job, so also with the challenges associated with it. Does this mean your job has to be the head of engineering at ISRO? No, different things challenge different people at different times. One just needs to understand what is it that gets you going ? if a daily muted challenges enables you to go that extra mile then take it, prove it right and watch your confidence roar.

If the challenges are not a part of the job, then do set some goals for self improvement believe me they go a long way and always add credits to your character certificate

• Set some milestone with respect to performance, goals help visualising your achievements actively and also help setting challenges with colleagues to conquer
• Teach your skills to your colleagues, help them grow while you grow too
• Take on new responsibilities, these will give you opportunities to prove yourself.
• Start or take on a project that uses skills you would like to use, or want to improve.
• Commit to improve personally as well as professionally – take courses, read books or trade magazines and attend seminars. However you do it, keep your skills fresh and current.

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Face of Tomorrow, share the experience!!

All online educational platforms tell us more about any subject or answers a query, does so with the purpose of minimizing our doubts and widening our horizons,if so why are we unable to shed our inhibitions and adopt technology to answer so many of the questions for which we have fumbled and often pondered about.

A platform that enables us to come together and work together brings forth an idea of a big collaborative effort that can be lauded for years to come.

As somebody wise summed up that when we talk of technology the differences of age,gender and intellect all disappear,what remains is the willingness to experiment and explore.When we talk of sharing experiences human mind is so codified that the most intense of activities that engage a high degree of involvement can remain vividly in the memory as a lifelong experience  rather than a memory that is evolved through reading or remembering.

For that matter explicit knowledge that we record through documents, papers and other intellectual property is representational and can live and be manipulated within the digital domain. Converting data-to-information, and information-to-knowledge describes a value continuum of explicit knowledge.

Whereas Tacit knowledge on the other hand talks of wisdom, experiences that exists within minds, it cannot be reduced to the digital domain as a material asset or be manipulated directly. However, it expresses in the social realm as the response ability of individuals (productivity, innovation and initiative), and teamwork (communication, coordination and collaboration).We as humans should infact use this lifetime to innovate and share our thoughts and creations cause each one of us has a bit of a genius who has gathered dust but when polished will sparkle to the brightest.

In 1995, Ikujiro Nonaka and Hirotaka Takeuchi, in their book The Knowledge Creating Company: How Japanese Companies Create the Dynamics of Innovation, presented the following model of how tacit and explicit knowledge interact in the knowledge creation process.

This figure explains the cycle of experiences can be shared only by the four factors namely socialization, externalization, internalization and combination that are more interchangeable, it is indeed a powerful mix that can effectively make our own experiences seem as a beautiful book, a leaf of which can be borrowed by others and probably add glory to their and our lives as well.

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Dump Incompetence, Embrace Aptitude

"As you probably know, all the good product names have been trademarked by companies who are competent."
"Competent? How are we going to compete with that?"
        - Dogbert and Wally (Dilbert Comics)

That quote on the Dilbert series stands absolutely true, no one can compete against competence and so the need of the hour in a knowledge marketplace is truly only competence. So how does one come to recognize it or better still give up years of inability to pursue knowledge with higher gains?

Within the current set up discontent will be shown by dysfunctional processes, many a times what you hear is an answer that will never lead to a solution.  The common excuse being “That’s how we have been doing”, rather than “Maybe there is a better way of approach”.

Some pointers to that would be vague objectives and arbitrary deadlines, meaningless solutions from ineffective management, unintended consequence: worsening morale.

Where as in an enlightened and open knowledge place you get to choose your skills matched and honed by the subject expert that you evaluate and choose. Your satisfaction can only shine in a more enlightened environment, as here the emphasis is on permitting the seekers to achieve excellence, and on providing them with appropriate techniques and tools. In effect, the systems are subordinated to the seekers, as their feedback is valuable and so is their contentment.

Sometimes we invest in knowledge bases that are more data gathering stations rather than facilitating knowledge transfer, so the quest for choosing your expert never arises. As the people writing the documents never exactly understand what knowledge seekers really want or looking for as solution.  Are the content producers the real experts? Do most seekers even know who the experts are? The typical result: knowledge pushed out in this way is not very valuable and certainly not to those with the best skills and knowledge.

So how exactly does an expert get chosen from a multitude? We would expect that if the rules which an expert has acquired from years of experience could be extracted and programmed, the resulting program would exhibit expertise. Again this infers that: “The matters that set experts apart from beginners, are symbolic, inferential, and rooted in experiential knowledge. Experts build up a repertory of working rules of thumb, or "heuristics," that, combined with book knowledge, make them expert practitioners.”

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Making of Knowledge MarketPlace!

Calvin:  Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts.  I wonder why we think faster than we speak.
Hobbes:  Probably so we can think twice.
~Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes

Knowledge worth of many successful organizations lies in the fact, that they have competitive edge on account of the few talented individuals dispersed at different level.

Even within organizations, for workers, executives, managers the common knowledge base is easily accessible but the unique proposition lies in the special understanding of that innate knowledge that is rarely if ever discussed with Diasporas.

And that is the very reason why certain companies have an edge over other, either in certain geographical areas or for that matter responding to critical situations, probably because the former has realized “the Mantra”. There is great significance of seamless flow of information and knowledge sharing across subsidiaries or across geographies or across hierarchies. Every individual has his own knowledge base and if seen as the larger picture many such knowledgeable individuals are scattered across cultures, hierarchy  within an organization, meaning neither the organization nor the individual  can completely exploit the limit to which this knowledge can grow and even lead the organization to greater heights.

This means that the knowledge hangs in limbo; or rather knowledge exists but is diffused, especially in a diverse organization. Imagine interactions amongst such talented coworkers across geographies could yield a huge power and such a large scale interaction would dwarf the significance and reliability on a select few individuals and rather distribute the sense of achievement across the organization. Many businesses have been satisfied at passing knowledge down the line through phones or faxes, but perhaps with the advent of communications in the past decade many leading organizations, academics and professional training groups have come to believe that the future lies only in the hands of those who can manage knowledge.

From this we can quite simply imply that be it a huge organization or small setup, information is there for all to know but knowledge that is the context in which that information has to be used effectively and that insight that can be gained by only sharing awareness through a common platform. So far the large organizations with vast pool of resources and investments have been able to tap this need. Those in phase of growth not able to keep aside that budget have been constrained.

Skype, Gtalk are tools for individual interactive video sessions but we would like to post few open questions for your thought: How does a small- medium size organization have focused group knowledge sharing sessions breaking location boundaries? How can an entrepreneur set up have interactive communication with subject matter experts of other geographies? And if so, how to connect? Which social media has a power to connect likeminded organizations and individual experts?

Looking forward to hear your opinions: