The document discusses digital literacy and some popular digital education tools. It defines digital literacy as an individual's ability to find, evaluate, and compose clear information through various digital platforms and media. It notes that 90% of India's population lacks digital literacy. It then describes several popular digital education tools used in India, including Google Classroom, ClassDojo, Khan Academy, and ePathshala.
6. Digital literacy refers to an individual's ability
to find, evaluate, and compose clear
information through writing and other media
on various digital platforms.
In simple words digital education is digital
literacy.
7. Literacy
traditionally
include to read
and write.
Digital literacy shares some
similarities, It refer to the
reading and writing of
digital texts for example
being able to ‘read’ a
website by navigating
through hyperlinks and
writing & commenting on
any social media platform.
9. As per a report from the Digital Empowerment
Foundation in 2018, around 90% of India’s
population is digitally illiterate. While India is
experiencing a digital revolution that may allow us
to move ahead in terms of economic growth and
development, we also run the risking of creating a
new class of digitally-poor citizens.
There are three main digital literacy programmes
which have been implemented or in the process of
implementation – the National Digital Literacy
Mission, The Digital Saksharta Abhiyan, and the
Pradhan Mantri Gramin Digital Saksharta Abhiyan
Digital literacy is essential, not just for access to
services, or information, but also for access to basic
rights and entitlements.
10. In this era of digital learning, technology plays
a crucial role in the process of knowledge
dissemination. Though there are thousands
of applications/technology tools available,
only a handful of them are popular among
the students and teachers.
11. Google Classroom is a free web service
designed for schools to help them with
drafting, mass distribution and grading
assignments in a paperless form. Here the
students can post their queries on the
lessons taught in the classrooms and receive
answers from teachers and other students.
Teachers can also post study materials
for students to review at home.
12. Class Dojo is a free classroom communication,
community building, and behavior management
application. Class Dojo enables teachers to not
only trace behavior and share this with parents,
but also assign students task which build positive
behavioral skill and trails.
Prezi presentation are nothing like your
traditional presentation; zooming in and out and
moving side to side across one single, very
attractive and modern canvas, focusing in on
image and video inputted by the user.
13. Seesaw is a user friendly learning portfolio
tool that empowers students to
independently document what they are
learning at school. Students can use photos,
videos, drawings, text notes, links, etc.
14. Khan Academy is a non-profit organization that
was conceptualized with an aim of building a
range of online tools that can help students
understand various lessons and concepts in an
easier way. The Khan Academy produces short
lessons in the form of videos both on the Khan
Academy’s YouTube™ channel and on its hugely
popular website www.khanacademy.org. Its
website also includes supplementary practice
exercises and materials for educators.
15. ePathshala a portal initiated by the Ministry of
Human Resource Development and National
Council of Educational Research and Training was
launched in November 2015 as one of the
initiatives of digital India campaign.
The students can get access of all the required
material, including textbooks, audio, video,
periodicals and a variety of other print and non-
print materials through ePathshala.
16. Animoto Gives students the ability to make a short, 30-
second share video of what they learned in a lesson.
The Answer Pad is a freemium, cloud-based app, that
creates an interactive dialogue between teachers and
students in the classroom. This is done by making a
variety of response types, drawings, canvases, and
templates available to students on any device with an
internet connection.
AnswerGarden is a new minimalistic feedback tool. Use
it for real time audience participation, online
brainstorming and classroom feedback.
17. ClassKick This app allows teachers to post
assignments for students, so both the teacher
and peers can provide feedback on the
assignment. Students can monitor their
progress and work.
Crowdsignal Quick and easy way to create
online polls, quizzes, and questions.
Kahoot! A game-based classroom response
system, where teachers can create quizzes
etc.
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