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1. 7PE959 Innovative 21st Century Teaching
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Part 1
During the pandemic, many educators moved in to the online mode of teaching as the
schools were completely shut due to lockdown (Tadesse and Muluye 2020). Most of the
countries did not even have the internet facilities to take online classes so shortly so they
took some time to develop their facilities in terms of online classes. At this time, we
concentrated more on the well-being of the students rather than pressurizing them in their
academic work. We introduced the option of having online classes where they had to join an
online communication platform MS Teams through a code (Trayner 2022). This made them
associate themselves with their other classmates and the classes began to place. Relating to
our practice, initially we did not face much trouble but as time was proceeding, we started
getting issues like over-crowded online classes which created a lot of disturbances in
remote teaching. Most of the students were using inappropriate means of writing their
assignments. It was difficult to find out these inappropriate aspects as in online education
we cannot see the students in person thus, we fail to get an idea about what they are up to.
We even learned that being attentive is so important for students because in online classes
it becomes tough to keep a track on each and every student. We learned that we need to
focus more on provide quality education to the children rather than quantity education to
the children who are present in the online classes.
Part 2
The communities of practice are said to be formed by the people who engage themselves in
a certain process of learning a specific share domain relating to human endeavour. It is
mainly a tribe who is learning to survive along with number of artists who are involved in
seeking different platforms of expressions. The main values of this kind of practice that are
to create a passion for a particular thing and then mastering it with the help of regular
interactions. It is basically an identity which shares the interest in the same domain. The
community of practice is said to be applied as the practitioners take a collective
responsibility towards attaining a desired position in terms of acquiring the best results
that are said to be appropriate. The practitioners make a direct link with the learnings as
well as the performances. They tend to address different tactics along with dynamic

2. approaches towards gaining knowledge and helps in making better knowledge creation.
Creating certain geographic boundaries for allowing people to interact with each other in a
better way that is considered to be possible. It is different from connectivism theory as
community of practice brings together different people who share similar interests where
as in connectivism it simply brings together different thoughts and learnings to reach a
desired goal. A community shares the same values but a group does not seem to share the
same value and thus, they tend to differ in terms of practice.
Part 3
The two initiatives for online professional development communities are EADTU’s
Empower initiative and The Inter-agency network for education in emergencies
(INEE). The EADTU is referred to as the action program that is being held to empower the
new modes of teaching and even allowing the new blend of learning through the medium of
e-leaning. It is mainly the perfect combination of face to face along with different learnings
which will help the professionals to foster teaching in an appropriate way that is considered
to be possible. It is mainly of sharing the different ideas as per the communications are
concerned and makes different ideologies which are considered to be needed (Chang et.al.,
2021). There are several ideas which helps in making new options as per the ideas in
making them work towards the best modes of teaching. The INEE initiative on the other
hand is to ensure quality, relevant along with safer education for all the people who are
being affected by the emergency (Nartiningrum and Nugroho 2020). It is mainly a global
network of students that represents certain agencies which support the education of others
and even seek to broaden its aspects in a better way that is considered to be possible. It
ensures that all the children, adults along with youth have the right to education even in the
times of emergency. The EADTU’s empower initiative is said to have 21 partners in almost
16 countries. The transferable resources in this context allows to make different changes
which are used in the improving the professional developments in the country as well as
working for the right to equality of education
Part 4
Out of 7 billion people in the world, it is being reported that 6 billion people have the access
to mobile phones (UNESCO, 2022). With the advent of internet and other technologies, texts
are being brought to the mobile reading facility which helps number of people to work with
the information even if they are not getting access to it immediately. The three ways it helps
in enhancing the knowledge are the following:
It is available to everyone without worrying about the accessibility. It helps to save time as
the text is available in the form of mobile reading and it does not create any kind of issues in
reaching out to these texts as they are being conveniently accessed.
It helps to make a better, research, as the study materials or the texts are always available
on the mobile reader and the missed-out points can be rechecked thoroughly (mobile

3. learning, 2022).
To prepare for the entrance examinations with all the related points present in them and
making the best use of the study materials which are considered to be there.
The limitations are being mentioned below:
The mobile readers tend to develop a habit of extracting all of their knowledge from the
mobile sources whereas they do not focus on other researches thar might contribute to
their studies (Jegede 2020).
The mobile readers limit their area of experiences where most of the ideas are being dealt
with the changes concerned with the new areas of practical knowledge.
The mobile devices tend to divert the level of concentration and hampers the educational
qualifications of the individuals.
Part 5
The teacher example of my interest is being tangible to new changes and how these changes
help in finding out better examples to work on the aspects well. The idea of being tangible in
terms of teaching helps to cater to the maximum changes that show different aspects
around the world and even helps in indulging new aspirations towards dealing with the
ideas in an appropriate way (OECD, 2022). The Orlando’s way of change that can be applied
to the way of teaching is through developing tangible techniques which makes better
understanding of the work and even helps in making new methods to overcome the
challenges well in the country. There are better ideas which helps to enhance the
knowledge and make more tangible outcomes towards initiating different learning areas
which are considered to be present and makes them understand the work in an appropriate
way (Chertoff et.al., 2020). Being tangible allows to focus on different aspects and work on
the techniques in a more simplified way so that none of the problems tend to occur in the
educational sector. There are different areas which helps in making certain areas that
allows them to work on the aspects which helps in increasing flexibility and even allows to
enhance the knowledge in an appropriate way that is considered to be possible in the
educational sphere.
Part 6
The podcast named as Post-Pandemic Online learning deals with the future of education
and how to follow an active-learning models for children so that they develop better
learning aspect in the educational field (Ubel 2022). Online education is mainly a kind of
digital revolution that came into picture after the pandemic that had hit the world and
affected the educational systems largely. Initially, the idea of applying new knowledge into
understanding the work was difficult but as time it got better and more interesting towards
educating people through the online learning. The online learning’s importance is being
highlighted in this podcast and gives a message on promoting virtual learnings for higher
education. There are several digital applications towards understanding the virtual

4. learnings and make new changes as the pandemic had hit widely in the nation (Mbunge
et.al., 2020). The technological advancements help in dealing with the digital revolution also
give us the opportunity to deal with any problems that might arise in the field of education.
To overcome certain issues and dealing with new challenges and making the online
platforms more informative so that most of the ideas are being learned in an appropriate
way and higher education becomes much easier as students get more time in learning the
better and inclining more time in researching (Akat and Karata? 2020). The faculty has
more to deal with the ideas where the students are being helped thoroughly and they are
being given proper guidance to overcome the difficulties which they tend to face in the
digital aspect of education.
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