A STUDY ON TECHNO PEDAGOGICAL SKILLS AMONG TEACHER TRAINEES OF UNIVERSITY OF MYSORE

A STUDY ON TECHNO PEDAGOGICAL SKILLS AMONG TEACHER

OF UNIVERSITY OF MYSORE

1 2

SharathKumarCR,Prof.PraveenaKB

1AssistantProfessor,BGSB.EdCollege,Kuvempunagar,Mysore,India.

2RegistrarofEvaluation,KarnatakaStateOpenUniversity,Mysore,India.

ABSTRACT

st “Inthis21 Century'stechnologicalerait'ssohardtomovewithouttechnology AsaresultofadvancementinScienceandTechnologythereisaparadigmshiftin curriculumtransactionprocesses,andoneshouldadopttothesechangestobelucrative.InmanyadvancementsTechnoPedagogyisthehybridmethodofteachingin whichICTresourcesareutilizeintheclassroomtransactionprocess.TechnoPedagogicalskillsareveryusefulinmakingcurriculumtransactionsaremoreeffective. ItpromotestechnologicalliteracyandusageofMultimediapackagesinthecurriculumtransactionprocess.Therearevariouschallengesfacedbyteachertraineesto successfullyintegratetechnologyandpedagogyinthecurriculumtransaction.LackofknowledgeregardingTechnoPedagogicalskillsonthepartofteachertrainees beforeenteringtheprofessionandevenTechnopedagogicalskillsarenotproperlyutilizingbystakeholdersatmaximumextent.Thesereasonsandthemanyresearch resultsrealizedtoresearchertoinvestigatethehighneedofstudying“TechnoPedagogicalskillsofTeacherTraineesofUniversityofMysore.”Themainaimofthis studyistofindouttheLevelofTechnopedagogicalskillsofteachertraineeswithdifferentdimensionsof21stcenturyskills. Heretheresearchisusedsurveymethod andusedtheSCALEFORTECHNO-PEDAGOGICALSKILLStoolpreparedbyandstandardizedbyJeyarajI,tocollectthedata”.

KEYWORDS:TechnologicalEra,TechnoPedagogicalSkills,TechnologicalLiteracy

INTRODUCTION:

st Inthis21 centurytechnologicalerait'ssohardtomovewithouttechnology Asa resultofadvancementinscienceandtechnologythereisaparadigmshiftincurriculumtransactionprocesses,andoneshouldadopttothesechangestobelucrative.InmuchwayadvancementTechnopedagogyisthehybridmethodofteachinginwhichICTresourcesareutilizedinaclassroomcurriculumtransactionprocess.Itistheartofincorporatingtechnologyinteachingandlearningprocesses. Technopedagogicalskillsareveryusefulinmakingteachinglearningprocesses injoyfulway

st Technologicalliteracyisregardedasoneofthe21 centuryskill.Teachersshould possess sound knowledge about the usage of information and communication technology as the learners of current generation have grown with an unprecedentedamountoftechnologicalexposure. Ateachertraineeshouldbeaconstant learnertobeadeptenoughtotacklethestudentswithimmensetechnologyinfluence.TeachershouldhavemasteryovertheskillstousedemandsanunderstandingofhowICTtoolsarerelatedtothecontentareaandpedagogypart.Soalong st withcontentandpedagogyknowledge,a21 centuryteachertraineesmustpossessICTknowledgeaswell.

SIGNIFICANCEOFTHESTUDY:

DuetotherapidrevolutioninthefieldofICTthereisaparadigmshiftincurriculumtransactionprocesses.Teachersshouldchangetheirteachingstylesoasto accommodatetechnologyintotheirregularclassroomteaching.Forateacherof present generation, it is imperative to have the knowledge about ICT and its usageinthecurriculumtransactionprocesses.TeachersshouldknowtosuccessfullyintegraterightkindofICTintotheirsubjectmatterwhileplanningaswellas providingtheexperience.Sobeforeenteringtheprofessioninthetrainingitself technopedagogicalskillsareincooperatedamongtheteachertrainees.Ithelps totraineestomaketheirteachingmoreeffectiveandjoyfulbyusingICT Soit's necessitatingtostudytheTechnoPedagogicalskillsamongteachertrainees.By thisresearchcanfindthelevelofTechnoPedagogicalskillsamongteachertrainees.

REVIEWOFRELATEDLITERATURE:

Dr PradeepKumarS.L(2018)conductedastudyonTechnoPedagogicalskills of secondary school Hindi teachers working in Kerala. 488 secondary school Hinditeacherswereselectedforthestudy Self-madetoolwasusedforthisstudy TheresultrevealedbothMaleandfemalesecondaryschoolHinditeacherswere highlyproficientincomputerapplication,Maleteachersaremuchcompetentin utilizingthewebfacilities,bothMaleandfemalesecondaryschoolHinditeachersweremoderatecompetencyintheeffectiveoperationofmoderntechnologicalequipment's.

JeyarjIandRamnathR(2018)examinedthetechnologicalpedagogicalandcontentknowledgeofB.EdstudentteachersinPuducherryregion.200B.Edstudent teacherswereselectedforthisstudy ThestandardizedscalepreparedbyIsmail sahinwasusedasthetoolforthisstudy Itconsistof47items.Theresultrevealed thattechnologicalpedagogicalandcontentknowledgeofB.Edstudentteachers levelismoderate.

Dr.C.Thanavathi (2016) conducted a study on Techno Pedagogical skills of TeacherEducatorinTamilnadustate.50teachereducatorsfromThoothukudidistrictwereselectedforthestudy Self-madetoolwasusedforthisstudyanditconsistsof49items.Thefindingofthestudyinferredthat40%ofTeacherEducators areModeratelevelofTechnoPedagogicalskillsandthereisnosignificantdifference between male and female teacher educators in their Techno pedagogical skillsandalsothereisnosignificantdifferencebetweenurbanandruralteacher educatorsintheirTechnopedagogicalskills.

StatementoftheProblem: “AStudyonTechnoPedagogicalskillsamongTeacherTraineesofUniversityof Mysore”

OBJECTIVESOFTHESTUDY: Tostudythelevelof TechnoPedagogicalSkillsamongTeacherTraineesofUniversityofMysore.

METHODOLOGYOFTHESTUDY: Descriptivesurveymethodisusedto“TechnoPedagogicalskillsamongTeacher TraineesofUniversityofMysore”

PopulationandSampleofthestudy: Stratifiedrandomsamplingtechniqueisadoptedinthisstudy TeacherTrainees ofTen Colleges of Education affiliated to University of Mysore were selected; fromthetotalpopulationoutoftwohundredteachertraineeswereselectedrandomly

Toolusedforthestudy:

Descriptionofthetool:

The tool techno pedagogical skill consists of 51 statements in the form of five pointLikerttypescalei.e.,eachitemhasfiveoptionssuchasverylittleextent,littleextent,someextent,greatextentandverygreatextent.Thetoolorquestionnaireprovidesopportunitytoeasilycollectagreatdealofinformation.Sincethe questionnaireintendedtotestthelevelofTPSamongtheteachertrainees,classificationofpositiveandnegativeitemswerenotentertained.Alltheitemswere the directional and based on the use of TPS. The content of the questionnaire mainly dealt the following eleven dimensions, namelyWord processing skills, Spreadsheetskills,databaseskills,electronicpresentationskills,webnavigation skills, e-mail management skills, WebCT skills, Knowledge of PDA, Educationalcopyrightknowledge,ComputernetworkknowledgeandComputersecurityknowledge.

ThedimensionwisedistributionoftheTPS.

S. No Dimension StatementNo Totalno.of statement

1. Wordprocessingskills 1,12,16,32,36,44,48 7

2. Spreadsheetskills 2,13,18,25,37 5

3. Databaseskills 3,14,26,38 4

4. Electronicpresentationskills 4,15,27,45 4

5. Webnavigationskills 5,17,28,39,46 5

6. E-mailmanagementskills 6,24,29,40,47 5

7. WebCTskills 7,19,30,41,50 5

8. KnowledgeofPDA 8,20,31,42 4

9. Educationalcopyrightknowledge 9,21,33,43 4

10. Computernetworkknowledge 10,22,34,49 4 11. Computersecurityknowledge 11,23,35,51 4

Totalnumberofstatements 51

ScoringProcedure:

Eachtestitemhasfivealternatives,namelyverylittleextent(1),littleextent(2), some extent(3), great extent (4) and very great extent (5).The teacher trainees were requested to choose right response from the five alternatives by putting a tick mark against the alternatives. The respondents can choose the response basedontheirabilityandcapacity.These51statementsweredesignedinsucha waytoknowtheleveloftechnopedagogicalskillsamongteachertrainees,especiallyintheeducationalcontext.

InterpretationoftheData:

Thecollecteddatawerescoredbasedonthedimensionwise.

Sl.No Scale

No.of statements

Score Interpretation

1 Techno PedagogicalSkills 51 1-50 Verylow 51-101 Low 102-152 Moderate 153-203 High 204-255 Veryhigh

Thedimensionwiseinterpretationweregivenbelow

Sl. No Technopedagogicalskills No.of statementsin dimension Wise

1 Wordprocessingskills 7

Score Interpretation

AnalysisandInterpretationsofdata

SlNo Tool Interpretation

1 Techno PedagogicalSkills

NoofTeacher trainees %

VeryLow 18 9% Low 20 10% Moderate 110 55% High 36 18% VeryHigh 16 8%

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2 Spreadsheetskills, Webnavigationskills, E-mail,managementskills, WebCTskills 5

3

Databaseskills,Electronic presentationSkillsKnowledge ofPDA,Educationalcopyright knowledge,Computer network knowledge,Computer securityKnowledge

Statisticaltechniquesusedforthestudy

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1-7 Verylow 8-14 Low 15-21 Moderate 22-28 High 29-35 Veryhigh

1-5 Verylow 6-10 Low 11-15 Moderate 16-20 High 21-25 Veryhigh

4 1-4 Verylow 5-8 Low 9-12 Moderate 13-16 High 17-20 Veryhigh

ThecollecteddatawasanalyzedapplyingthePercentageAnalysis.

Delimitationsofthestudy:

ThestudywaslimitedtoUniversityofMysoreonly

ThestudywaslimitedtoB.EdTeachertraineesonly

Only 8% Teacher Trainees have very high level of Teach Pedagogical skills, majority of the sample are having moderate Techno pedagogical skills, 9% of TeachertraineeshaveverylowTeachPedagogicalskills.

DimensionwiseAnalysisandInterpretationsofTechnoPedagogicalskill

Sl No DimensionofTPS

Very Low Low Moderate High Very High

1 Wordprocessingskills 10% 8% 52% 25% 5%

2 Spreadsheetskills 8% 10% 55% 20% 7%

3 Databaseskills 6% 9% 53% 28% 4%

4 Electronicpresentationskills 7% 6% 60% 17% 10%

5 Webnavigationskills 8% 9% 59% 15% 9%

6 E-mailmanagementskills 9% 18% 53% 11% 9%

7 WebCTskills 14% 10% 60% 10% 6%

8 KnowledgeofPDA 15% 13% 52% 12% 8%

9 Educationalcopyright knowledge 5% 6% 60% 19% 10%

10 Computernetworkknowledge 7% 12% 57% 18% 6%

11 Computersecurityknowledge 8% 9% 47% 26% 10%

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InthedifferentdimensionsoftheTechnopedagogicalskillsmostoftheTeacher traineeshaveModerate(55%)technopedagogicalskills.TeacherTraineeshaving9%and10%ofverylowandlowleveloftechnopedagogicalskillsrespectively Teacher Trainees having 18% and 8% of high and very high level of technopedagogicalskillsrespectively

EducationalImplications:

Ÿ SpecialtrainingsrelatedtoTechnopedagogicalskillscanorganizedfor theTeacherTrainees.

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TeacherTraineescanbeencouragedtoactivelyparticipateindifferent technologicalorientationprogramstodeveloptheirTechnopedagogical skills.

InstitutionshouldappointtechnologicalexperttotrainTeacherTrainee.

Ÿ AwarenessprogramsrelatedtoTechnopedagogicalskills.

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ProvidingparticleknowledgeforTeachertrainees.

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ICTcurriculumshouldupdate.

Ÿ PedagogicalpracticeshouldbebasedonICT

CONCLUSION:

ThisstudyrevealsthatthelevelTechnopedagogicalskillsoftheTeachertrainees ofUniversityofMysore.BythisstudyresearchfoundthatteachertraineeshavingModeratelevelofTechnopedagogicalskills,butinthis21stcenturytechnologicaleartoreachthestudentseffectivelyusageoftechnologyplaysavitalrole soeveryTeachertraineesshouldhavetheminimumknowledgeabouttheusage oftechnologyandbasic21stcentury'stechnologicalskills.Sobyadoptingnew methodsandpracticesteachertraineesshouldgivemoreprioritytowardsusage oftechnologyintheirteachingpracticeandtheyshouldinculcatethehighlevel TechnoPedagogicalskills.

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APPENDIX-

: Gender : Male/Female

Name(Optional)

Locality : Rural/Urban

Age : Lessthan30years/31to45years/Above46years

Typeoffamily : Joint/Nuclear

Maritalstatus : Married/Unmarried

Majorsubject : Language/Science/Humanities

Professionalqualification

Teachingexperience

: M.Ed./M.Phil./Ph.D.

: Lessthan5years/5-10years/Above10years

Completionofcomputercourse : Yes/No

Usageoftechnologyforeducationalpurpose : Rarely/Occasionally/frequently

APPENDIX-II

SCALEFORTECHNOPEDAGOGICALSKILLSINSTRUCTION

statementcarefullyandmakeyourrightresponseastickmark()intheconcernedoption.Youarerequestedtogiveresponsetoallthestatements.

S. No Statement

1 IamabletoconvertPDFfiletoWordfileandvice-versa

2 Iknowhowtouserowsandcolumnstoanalyzenumericaldata

3 Iamabletocollectinformationeasilythroughtheweb.

4 Iamcomfortabletomakethestudents/audiencetovisualizethepresentation.

5 IamfollowingBooleansearchcriteriawhileusingtheweb.

6 Ireceivefrequentmailsfromvariousacademicforums/organizations/associations

7 Iusedtodiscusswithfellowmembersinonlineforums

8 IaccessM.Sofficethroughmyandroidphone.

9 IuseanythingthatIfindoninternet

10 Iamfamiliartoconnectinternetfromvariousnetworks(Wi-Fi,broadband).

11 Iprotectmycomputersystemthroughantivirussoftware

12 Icandrawpictureinwordprocessingthroughpainting

13 Iamabletodrawgraphicalrepresentationofrawdatathroughspreadsheets.

14 Iamcapabletoorganizeinformation.

15 Icanengagestudentstilltheendofmypresentation.

16 Iamabletoinserttableandgraphwhiletypingtext.

17 Iusedtoavoidprepositionsinthewebnavigation.

18 Iamabletomanipulategraphinspreadsheet.

19 Iamusingblogsforeducationalpurpose.

20 Irefere-dictionarythroughPDA(e.g.androidphone).

21 Iamawareofthefairuseofcopyright.

22 Iamawareof“HUB”ansitsfunctions.

23 Ikeepawayfromviruses,spywareandadwarethroughfirewalls.

24 Iamabletocategorizeandprioritizethee-mails

25 Byusingspreadsheetprogram,Icancomparesetsofdatausingtablesandgraphs.

26 Icanretrievethedatawhenrequired.

27 Ikeepreceivinggoodfeedbackformypresentations

28 Iamgoingbeyondthefirstpageofthesearchengine.

29 Ikeepcleanmytrashofmymail.

30 IclarifymydoubtwithexpertsthroughSkypetoo.

31

PDA(PersonalDigitalAssistant)playsvitalinmyclassroom

32 Iamgoodatfindingandreplacingthetext.

33 Iprefertogetinformation’sthroughpublicdomains

34 Icouldconnectlargenumberofcomputersthroughnetworking.

Verylittle extent Little extent Some extent Great extent Verygreat extent

Verylittle extent Little extent Some extent Great extent Verygreat extent

35 Iamabletocompactapplicationslevelthreats

36 Iamcapableofusinghyperlinkinwordprocessing.

37 Iamabletoarrivestatisticalfindingsofdatabyusingthespreadsheetprogram

38 Icanstoreinformationintheelectronicgadgets. 39 Ihandlemanytabsandwindowssimultaneouslyforthesearching.

40 Ichecke-maileveryday

41 Iamusingsocialmediaasalearningplatform.

42 PDAhelpsmetobecompetentinmyteaching.

43 Icopyonlytenpercentagesofthecontentorthreeminutesofthevideowhicheverislessformy presentations.

44 Iamawareofshortcutkeysanditsfunctions.

45 Icandoanimationformypresentation.

46 Iquitwithinfifthpageofgetrelevantinformation.

47 Iusedtoucheverye-mailatonce.

48 Iamabletoworkdoublewindowsinonescreen.

49 IamawareofLocalAreaNetwork(LAN)andWideAreaNetwork(WAN)

50 Appsforeducationisusefulforme

51 IknowhowtoprotectComputerorlaptopbyusingpassword.