The language laboratory is an audio or audio-visual installation used as an aid in modern language teaching. They can be found, amongst other places, in schools, universities, and academies. Perhaps the first lab was at the University of Grenoble in 1908. In the 1950s up until the 1990s, they were tape-based systems using reel to reel or (latterly) cassette. Current installations are generally multimedia PCs. The original language labs are now very outdated. They allowed a teacher to listen to and manage student audio via a hard-wired analogue tape deck based systems with 'sound booths' in fixed locations.
Tuesday, 22 December 2015
Language lab
The language laboratory is an audio or audio-visual installation used as an aid in modern language teaching. They can be found, amongst other places, in schools, universities, and academies. Perhaps the first lab was at the University of Grenoble in 1908. In the 1950s up until the 1990s, they were tape-based systems using reel to reel or (latterly) cassette. Current installations are generally multimedia PCs. The original language labs are now very outdated. They allowed a teacher to listen to and manage student audio via a hard-wired analogue tape deck based systems with 'sound booths' in fixed locations.
Information and communications technology
ICT (information and communications technology - or technologies) is an
umbrella term that includes any communication device or application,
encompassing: radio, television, cellular phones, computer and network
hardware and software, satellite systems and so on, as well as the
various services and applications associated with them, such as
videoconferencing and distance learning. ICTs are often spoken of in a
particular context, such as ICTs in education, health care, or
libraries. The term is somewhat more common outside of the United
States.
According to the European Commission, the importance of ICTs lies less in the technology itself than in its ability to create greater access to information and communication in underserved populations. Many countries around the world have established organizations for the promotion of ICTs, because it is feared that unless less technologically advanced areas have a chance to catch up, the increasing technological advances in developed nations will only serve to exacerbate the already-existing economic gap between technological "have" and "have not" areas. Internationally, the United Nations actively promotes ICTs for Development (ICT4D) as a means of bridging the digital divide.
According to the European Commission, the importance of ICTs lies less in the technology itself than in its ability to create greater access to information and communication in underserved populations. Many countries around the world have established organizations for the promotion of ICTs, because it is feared that unless less technologically advanced areas have a chance to catch up, the increasing technological advances in developed nations will only serve to exacerbate the already-existing economic gap between technological "have" and "have not" areas. Internationally, the United Nations actively promotes ICTs for Development (ICT4D) as a means of bridging the digital divide.
Tuesday, 17 November 2015
RABINDRANATH TAGORE
- “Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”
- “If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.”
- “Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers,but to be fearless in facing them.
- Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it.”
- “You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.”
- “I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.”
- “It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.”
- “Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.”
- “Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.”
- “The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.”
- “I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever.”
- “Reach high, for stars lie hidden in you. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.
- The small wisdom is like water in a glass:
clear, transparent, pure.
The great wisdom is like the water in the sea:
dark, mysterious, impenetrable.” - “Don't limit a child to your own learning, for she was born in another time.”
- “Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.”
- A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.”
- “Let your life lightly dance on the edges of
Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.” - “Most people believe the mind to be a mirror, more or less accurately reflecting the world outside them, not realizing on the contrary that the mind is itself the principal element of creation.”
- “By plucking her petals you do not gather the beauty of the flower.”
- “Love is an endless mystery, because there is no reasonable cause that could explain it.”
- You smiled and talked to me of nothing and I felt that for this I had been waiting long.”
- We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.”
- “If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door- or i'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.”
- “Music fills the infinite between two souls”
- “The biggest changes in a women's nature are brought by love; in man, by ambition”
- “I have spent many days stringing and unstringing my instrument
while the song I came to sing remains unsung.” - “We live in the world when we love it.”
- “The smile that flickers on a baby’s lips when he sleeps- does anyone know where it was born? Yes, there is a rumor that a young pale beam of a crescent moon touched the edge of a vanishing autumn cloud, and there the smile was first born in the dream of a dew-washed morning.”
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA
Inspirational quotes by Swami Vivekananda
1. 3 GOLDEN RULES from Swami Vivekananda
Who is Helping You, Don’t Forget them.
Who is Believing you, Don’t Cheat them.
2. Anything that makes you weak
physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject as poison. Swami
Vivekananda Motivational quote
3. Talk to yourself at least once in a Day.. Otherwise you may miss a meeting with an EXCELLENT person in this World…
4. Relationships are more important than life , but it is important for those relationships to have life in them….
5. You have to grow from the inside out.
None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other
teacher but your own soul. Swami-Vivekananda
6. Like me or Hate me,
both are in my favor,
If you like me I am in your Heart,
If you hate me I am in your mind. –
both are in my favor,
If you like me I am in your Heart,
If you hate me I am in your mind. –
7. By the study of different religions we find that in essence they are one. –
8. Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being.~
9..Fill the brain with high thoughts, highest ideals place them day and night before you and out of that will come great work.
10. Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being.~
11. We are what our thoughts have made
us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts
live; they travel far.
12. You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.
13. Arise! Awake! and stop not until the goal is reached.
14. The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
15. All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.
16. When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state.
Tuesday, 27 October 2015
Mahatma Gandhi
. Gandhi's Views On Education
Education As Per Mahatma Gandhi
Medium Of Education
I find daily proof of the increasing & continuing wrong being done to the millions by our false de-Indianizing education.
We seem to have come to think that no one can hope to be like a Bose unless he knows English. I cannot conceive a grosser superstition than this. No Japanese feels so helpless as we seem to do....
The medium of instruction should be alerted at once, and at any cost, the provincial languages being given their rightful place. I would prefer temporary chaos in higher education to the criminal waste that is daily accumulating.
Education through a foreign Language entails a certain degree of strain, and our boys have to pay dearly for it. To a large extent, they lose the capacity of shouldering any other burden afterwards., for they become a useless lot who are weak of body, without any zest for work and imitators of the West. They have little interest in original research or deep thinking, and the qualities of courage, perseverance. bravery and fearlessness are lacking. That is why we are unable to make new plans or carry our projects to meet our problems. In case we make them to fail to implement them. A few who do show promise usually die young.......
We, the English educated people alone are unable to assess the great loss that this factor has caused. Some idea of its immensity would be had if we could estimate how little we have influenced the general mass of our people.
The school must be an extension of home there must be concordance between the impressions which a child gathers at home and at school, if the best results are to be obtained. Education through the medium of strange tongue breaks the concordance which should exist. Those who breaks this relationship are enemies of the people even though their motives may be honest. To be a voluntary victim of this system of education is as good as the betrayal of our duty towards our mothers. The harm done by this alien type of education does not stop here; it goes much further . It has produced a gulf between the educated classes and the masses. The people look on us as beings apart from them.
It is my considered opinion that English education in the manner it has been given has emasculated the English educated Indian, it has put a severe strain upon the Indian students' nervous energy and has made of us imitators. The process of displacing the vernaculars has been one of the saddest chapters in the British connection. Ram Mohan Rai would have been a greater reformer, and Lokmanya Tilak would have been a greater scholar, if they had not to start with the handicap of having to think in English and transmit their thoughts chiefly in English. Their effect on their own people, marvelous as it was, would have been greater if they would have been brought under a less unnatural system. No dought they both gained from their knowledge of the rich treasures of English literature. But these should have been accessible to them through their own vernaculars. No country can become a nation by producing a race of imitators.
English is today studied because of its commercial and so called political value. Our boys think and rightly in the present circumstances, that without English they cannot get Government service. Girls are taught English as a passport to marriage. I know several instances of women wanting to learn English so that they may be able to talk in English. I know families in which English is made a mother tongue. Hundreds of youth believe that without the Knowledge of English. freedom of India is practically impossible. The canker has so eaten into the society that in many cases the only meaning of education is Knowledge of English. All these are for me signs of our slavery and degradation. It is unbearable to me that the vernaculars should be crushed and starved as they have been. I cannot tolerate the idea of parents writing to their children, or husbands writing to their wives, not in their own vernaculars but in English.
The foreign medium has caused brains fag, put an undue strain upon the nerves of our children, made them crammers and imitators, unfitted them for original work and thought, and disabled them for filtrating their learning to the family or the masses. The foreign medium has made our children practically foreigners in their own lands. It is the greatest tragedy of the existing system. The foreign medium has prevented the growth of our vernaculars. If I had the powers of a despot, I would today stop the tuitions of our boys and girls through a foreign medium and require all the teachers and professors on pain of dismissal to introduce the change forthwith. I would not wait for the preparation of Text books. They will follow the change. It is an evil that need a summary remedy.
Among the many evils of foreign rule, this blighting imposition of a foreign medium upon the youth of the country will be counted by history as one of the greatest. It has sapped the energy of the nation, it has estranged them for the masses, it has made education unnecessarily expensive. If this process is still persisted in, it bids fair to rob the nation of its soul. The sooner, therefore educated India shakes itself free from the hypnotic spell of the foreign medium, the better it would be for them and the people.
This article is taken from the book "The Selected Works Of Gandhi"
Vol. 6 The Voice of Truth
Monday, 26 October 2015
Csivhs &hss For Deaf Valakom School Kollam, Kerala
Kerala Science and Technology Museum
The Museum has ten galleries exhibiting more than 300 items. Each gallery contains items related a particular disciple of science or engineering. There are galleries for electrical, electronics, mechanical, automobile and bio-medical engineering. There is a special gallery for popular science, and also for solar energy. Mathematics, computer science and space science are the other disciplines having galleries of their own.
In addition to the Planetarium, the Museum offers facilities for night sky observation with a fully automatic 11 inch telescope. The Museum operates two Mobile Science Exhibition Units on astronomy and science and a separate mobile astronomy unit named Astrovan. The Museum also conducts creative science workshops for school children during every summer.
The administration of the museum is vested with a Governing Body with Minister for Education, Kerala State, as the Chairman. The Director of the Museum is responsible for conducting the day-to-day affairs of the museum.
Kottukkal Agricultural farm visit
Kalayapuram ASHRAYA visit.
SANKETHAM
Kalayapuram
This institution aims at sheltering the old men, the handicapped, the ordinary and mental patients who are disowned and thrown into the street by their near ones. There are 254 inmates now, among whom majority are blind, deaf or dumb or patients suffering from cancer, TB, asthma, epilepsy etc.
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