Introduction and origin of G-Shala app
G-Shala is an acronym for ‘Gujarat Students’ Holistic Adaptive Learning App’. It is an education and reference application for teachers as well as for students that can be conveniently used in any android device.
Following the Corona pandemic, the education sector and academic community were forced to adopt online teaching learning mode. While the online ecosystem was not new, it was still in its very early stages. The National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, advocating the adoption and integration of technology in K-12 education and digitization of the schooling system, was redefining learning for the future. In that backdrop, the Gujarat government has launched a unique initiative called G-Shala - an adaptive learning platform that ensures continuity of learning.
SchoolNet India, along with the entire Shiksha Abhiyan, Gujarat Council of School Education, Government of Gujarat and Gujarat Council of School Education, GOG, creates an innovative solution to support and strengthen continuity of learning for students. G-Shala (Gujarat Student Holistic Adaptive Learning App) born out of this partnership went live on 10th June 2021.
This holistic adaptive learning application for students is embedded in a Learning Management System (LMS) for seamless digital integration of education design and implementation. G-Shala is a platform-agnostic and device-independent application that maps digital interactives, 2D/3D augmented e-content to textbooks for all subjects and covers 5-12 standards. It is based on Gujarat State Education Board (GSEB) syllabus. Embedded in a learning management system, G-Shala creates an effective teaching-learning ecosystem. It provides comprehensive support to schools, administrators, teachers and students to ensure smooth and harmonious functioning. School management and administrators can monitor the performance of individual teachers and students. With the help of an LMS, teachers get easy access to a dashboard that gives them a 360-degree view of all the classes and subjects assigned to them. Teachers can also create their own teaching-learning materials in addition to using the existing materials available through the app to conduct classes. They can push assignments and assessments to individual students or groups of students to create collaborative learning opportunities. All these together ensure effective achievement of the desired learning outcomes.
Pedagogy- the term
The term ‘pedagogy’ refers to the way teachers teach, both in theory and in practice. Pedagogy is shaped by a teacher’s teaching beliefs and concerns the interplay between cultures and different ways of learning.
Pedagogy describes the art and science of teaching students. The word comes from the Greek word ‘pydagogos’, a combination of ‘paidos’ (child) and ‘agogos’ (leader). The advent of writing around 3000 BC. leading to a type of learning that was more self-reflective and concerned with skill and knowledge building. It was also around this time that Plato advocated an instructional system that used the Socratic method that uses questions to help students gain meaning. Henri Giroux, scholar, cultural critic, and one of the pioneers of public pedagogy and cultural studies, writes, “Pedagogy is not about training, it is about educating people critically to be self-reflective, to be able to critically address their relationships with others. is is and is with the wider world.”
The role of G-Shala in pedagogy
The teaching-learning process, or the education process, has been defined as a systematic, sequential, planned course of action on the part of both the teacher and learner to achieve the outcomes of teaching and learning. Teaching Education in values Through Games in Primary Education. The G-Shala app provides such vital and entertaining atmosphere in the classroom for students which lighten up the process for the teachers also.
The content-graphics provided in it are very entertaining and attractive so that the student can easily understand. Students gets the benefits if one video of the same lesson is watched every day. They become able to learn and repeat learnings by their selves. They even
be able to take the exam as well as can also check the report of the child.
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