teachers should guide learners to use technology properly to acquire knowledge and should
manage all the means of knowledge acquiring equipment.
Dr. S. Senthinathan, then elaborated on the implication of technology in the realm of teaching
and had a talk on the three gradients of teaching. Augmented classrooms, blended learning and
online learning which can as complementary, supplementary or even alternative means. He then
gave a brief differentiation of web 1.0 and 2.0 along with the characteristics and benefits of web
2.0 to web 1.0 and the various facilities provided by it such as podcast, wikkies, webquests, hot
potatoes, dictionaries of web 2.0 and so on. Towards the concluding part, he advised the teacer
traines to master ICT, and raised a question whether we are producing the breed of teachers who
can goes with the present age. Making them aware about the vitality of technology in Education
is pivotal. The session by Dr.S.Senthilnathan was indud an effective platform for all the
concerned stake holders to introspect about numerous advances as well as challenges and
dilemmas faced by the current teacher education system of India. At the end of this season
Ms.Jaya P.J.,Assistannt Professor, Mount Carmel College of Teacher Education for Women
proposed the vote of t Hanks. After this, by 11.45 am the assembladge parted for a short break
for refreshments.
Session 4 of the seminar was pursued by Dr. D.N. Sansanwal on the topic Information and
Communication technology related innovations in teacher education. He pointed outed the
various innovations in Teacher education such as taxingof resources, professional development ,
sharing of resources, professional development of teaches, increasing accessibility, virtual
universities HRD Distance Education Total quality Management, bridging the gap betwwn haves
and have not , web based instruction etc. Later he moved on to describe the gross cultural
research using ICTs such as pupils evaluation which can be done using computer Based
Diagnostic Test, Computer Based achievement test, Remedial teaching etc. In the field of
Curriculum development ICT has enabled. Digitilised instructional material and in the realm pf
selection of teacher trainees, online tests can be utilized. Then he elaborated his talk on different
models of teaching such as concept attainment mode(CAM), Inquiry training Model (ITM)
advanced organizer model (AOM, Twiss prediction inquiry model (JIM) and stress reduction
model he elucidated ona technology developed by Dr. D.N. sansanwal himself known as JERK
technology under which he explained mirror image writing (MIW), Disproportionate word
writing (DWW) Small Writing(SW), Double negative sentences (DNS) unusual sentences