Extract: Civil Society Learning Material on Gender equity

Context: Public statement by RC Gilgit

The ethical values that are important to the AKDN agencies are:

5. Gender equity

Wherever an AKDN agency finds that local CSOs do not exhibit these ethical values, it is the agencies’ role to help them, just as much as making sure that their governance and management practices are in place. The following pages suggest how the AKDN agency could investigate these subjects, and decide on action.

In many societies women are marginalised, exploited, and given few chances to acquire education, experience or the chance to show their strengths. The CSO should demonstrate that it has a different opinion and is prepared to put such opinions into practice.

Gender refers to the social differences between women and men that are learned through socialisation, and which are not intrinsic characteristics of each sex. In nearly all societies women are discriminated against, and in some countries such discrimination is underpinned by tradition, custom, laws and religious observances.

An enormous amount is lost to a society when women do not have access to education, jobs, decision making and responsibility. Even more is lost if this is underpinned by domestic physical and sexual violence.

What can an AKDN agency do encourage gender equity?

1. The AKDN agency can make sure that staff and volunteer positions are accessible to women as much as men, and when traditions and culture block this, can work to break down such practices and be a model as a fair employer with regard to gender balance.

2. Look for ways in which the agency and the CSOs with which it associates can overcome some of the difficulties that women have in overcoming structural problems – such as making sure crêches exist for nursing mothers, and that transport (or security) is provided for women to come and go on CSO business.

3. Think of ways in which the usual imbalance of power between men and women can be re-aligned – e.g. by making evening classes available to women, giving them access to literacy materials, or making sure that they have access to credit.

4. As mentioned before, ascertain what organisations already work on gender equity issues and see if they can be helpful to your organisation.

5. Look for agencies, organisations, firms and government departments that are practising what you consider to be good gender relations, and hold them up as a model.

6. Have clear rules and regulations against abuse of women in your organisation, and practice zero tolerance for infractions.

7. Have services in place to help women connected to your organisation who may suffer from domestic violence or other physical and sexual violence.

RELATED: UCA CURRICULUM- 7.   Rhythm and Movement

The rhythm and Movement course will explore the great influence music has had on shaping human society and history. The main purpose of this course is to provide an introduction to dance and music as important disciplines within the humanities and to debate basic ideas related to the art's aesthetics. All the materials presented in this course are selected from different cultures and civilizations (Europe, America, Russia, some Muslim countries, and India, among others) that gave had direct or indirect links to the history and contemporary life of Central Asia. This course will allow the participants to freely question existing musical forms, groups, and ensembles and to challenge the ruling cultural, traditional and political attitudes concerning issues of professional or local musical performance, self expression, and the responsibilities of musicians to society.
Also read the concept of HCF.

State of art education and skill centers in GB and their potential

UNESCO REPORT

GOOGLE IN EDUCATION, EXAMPLE: A lesson about every single element on the periodic table, ADDITIONAL PLATEFORM
TEACHING, LEARNING, NETWORKING, PEOPLE's UNIVERSITY, EXPLORE THE WORLD OF HIGHER EDUCATION, LIVING DOCUMENT,
PhD Welcome development, Chinese establish six state of the art lifelong learning centers and open universities in GB towards development of HR in the global world. Propose the LSOs in the area must motivate populations to avail these Facilities.
Recall the fourteen facilities established by AKDN in 2010 through the Education department as well.

INTEGRATION WITH POPULAR PLATFORMS

Home Classroom
Manage teaching and learning with Classroom
Classroom helps students and teachers organize assignments, boost collaboration, and foster better communication.

Note to Minister of Education GB and VC KIU:
As a start I request you to get a report as to how many of these twenty centers are functional and delivering to the schools, colleges, University campus and the general population. Then integrate these to provide free of cost knowledge and skills to every household thereby developing a innovative human resource throughout the region.

Education and skills for 21st century that you can acquire FREE OF COST through Lifelong Learning Centers in our region

 TELEMEDICINE

RESPONSE:

Ibrahim Sanai 

Salam sir, I read it and will bring soon as addenda for discussion in the fourth coming Review Meeting of the Education Department Gilgit Baltistan.

Vice Chancellor KIU Thanks Baig sb. As akways appreciate your sharing wonderful resources. 

INTERNET:
Free high speed internet in Hunza, part of Cross Border Optical Fiber Cable Project:
The infrastructure has been provided by the Chinese and also tested. Will be available to populations only when GOP (SCO) issues NOC. We request GOP to facilitate establishment of KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY in the region by issuing the NOC.

https://hisamullahbeg.blogspot.com/2017/08/knowledge-society-initiative.html

Features of Red spider software

Red Spider educational software, developed by Guangzhou Chuangxun Software Co., Ltd.

Development, runs the TCP / IP Windows2000/XP/2003/Vista/Windows7 network loaded with TCP/IP protocol, it supports 32-bit and 64-bit Windows systems, it mainly realizes multimedia information network teaching and broadcasting on the LAN for its excellent quality, it is a very good software product with the integration of synchronous teaching, control, management, audio and video broadcast, on-line exam in computer classrooms, and it can achieve the purposes of network management such as simultaneous screen monitoring and remote control[2].

Easy software installation:

Traditional computer classroom, in the general sense, is such a system implemented with projector or hardware network. However, a general classroom cannot be equipped with such a system for its high cost or some other reasons, such as large hardware depletion, troublesome maintenance and difficult updating. But for Red Spider software, a pure software solution, it completely avoid these hardware problems to enable teachers to put theory of teaching into practice, teachers can make a variety of teaching demonstrations on the computer, and any teachers’ step of the procedure is in real-time transmission to the student's computer screen.

Powerful functions and flexible interaction:

A variety of multimedia courseware information, optical disk teaching resources, experimental demonstration system, teaching methods and experiences can be realized by integrating voice, images, text, animation as one through the use of this software to achieve modern interactive teaching mode.

Texts, images, voice and video resources can be shared throughout the multimedia classroom. In this way, interactive communication environment can be realized by constructing a text, voice, video, images, and students can share on their computer screens a variety of teaching resources, it does not only greatly reduce the workload of teachers, but also significantly improve the efficiency of teaching, and the teaching content is extremely lively and the students are willing to accept.

Main functions of the Red Spider educational software

The main functions of the Red Spider educational software are as follows:

Teacher demonstration: to perform real-time synchronous broadcasting of the screen of the teacher’s machine to individual or all the students with teaching demonstrations. It can also be broadcasting the image screen in the form of animated images recorded to make into courseware or teaching materials for re-use or shared with other teachers. Moreover, it can use pre-recorded screen to back play the demo directly to the students’ computers through the network, with this feature, the teaching of automation and standardization can be realized.

Student demonstration: easily to specify any of the students to demonstrate the operation to other groups of students to conduct mutual exchanges and learning while supporting the demonstration of the window or full screen mode.

Black silence: to lock the keyboard and mouse of one or all of the students of the local computer to make the screen display black so that the students’ lectures seriously.

Voice teaching: to conduct voice broadcasting by microphone and headset, and to realize free voice chat and discussion between teachers and students including online voice broadcasting, one-to-one talk, multilateral debate or voice listening.

Screen monitoring: to conduct real-time (looping) monitoring on computer screens of one or more students, teachers do not need to leave the seat to understand students' learning on the student machines across the network monitoring and management.

Remote counseling: Teachers can directly conduct remote control and operation of a student's computers to realized two-way communication with remote students by "hands-on" interactive remedial teaching.

Screen playback: to save the screen recorded in the form of animated images, then playback the screen when recorded, which can either facilitate the teachers ahead of lesson planning, the production of teaching materials related to teaching content, but also to solve the problem of students not keep up with the progress of teaching, and allow students in their spare time to review the contents of the class to improve the quality of teaching.

E-Responder: race to be the first to answer a question to help students learn in fun competitions, and to assist teachers in a timely manner to test the learning outcomes in order to identify problems and solve the problem.

File transfer: to perform a one-time transmission of one or more files to the specified student computer and specify to automatically open or run the file transferred after the end of transmission, do online software installation, distribute papers or demonstrate courseware, which greatly improved work efficiency.

Submit assignment: students can submit multiple files and directory assignment by cooperation with the teacher to realize student-teacher "file transfer", thus fully realizing file interaction between students and teachers through the distribution and submission of students' work online.

Online discussion: through chat by voice and text chat between teacher and students, all the texts will be automatically saved form history and can be readily available when needed.

Far-end message: teachers can acquire on teacher’s computer the machine configuration information of all the students to facilitate management. The information obtained includes: operating system, memory usage, disk allocation and spatial properties of the network / protocol / service, the IP address allocation, parameter settings, seating arrangements.

Process Information: to instantly view each student on the already open applications, and running processes information. If they are found in the class secretly playing games or chatting online, or should any exception process occur, students can always be remotely terminated.

On-line situation: all the students on the line, not on the line, quitting, quitting unexpectedly or escape, network disconnection can be on real-time detection and discovery through details for the teacher’s inquiries and immediately submitted to the teacher for the latest situation so as to make real-time processing. This mechanism plays a more active role in preventing students to freely escape control.

Electronic show of hands: should any students have problems to consult the teacher, they can always call the teacher, the teacher can answer those students at any time for those shows of hands via voice or text response.

Remote command: this software provides remote unified switch-on and switch-off program and computer-restarting instructions, and enables / disables students to send online messages, to submit jobs, and provide synchronization system parameter setting, synchronous upgrade services, and synchronizes system time and other functions. Also, the software can synchronize directly to open the application programs on students’ computers to ensure a unified interface you want to teach in the course.

Class Management: this software provides a very powerful class, group, and student and computer management system. It does not need to be configured to begin the task of teaching. And it introduces the concept of "class, students" to make more than one class configuration management, to arrange the seating of students, to conduct the current state of the group management and teaching demonstration by monitoring students computer.

Problems should be noted

Properly handle the relationships between the teaching instruction and students’ practice:

Teaching practice with students is a dialectical unity. Questions teachers explain should be consistent with those of the students’. Two problems are likely to occur if not properly controlled:

In the first place, teachers speak too much, which leads to the fact that students do not have enough time to practice. With limited class time, that a teacher simply completes the task of teaching in an unbroken time will results in the too long presentation time with teaching taking too much content, which makes students feel learning boring without digesting the content.

In the second place, the demonstration of the teachers’ is synchronous with the students’ practice, which leads to unexpected bad effect. If students themselves are allowed to operate in learning, students will forget certain key steps. This is because the students focus only on the form of imitation in the learning process, but ignore the cognitive improvement.

Desirable practice: First, the teachers demonstrate complete the steps to enable students to watch, not to operate but understanding the overall teaching task, then teachers operate, students follow, meanwhile teachers explain the problems that may occur in steps and procedure, and answer all the problems; in the final, the students independently complete the task or similar task of teaching, in order to achieve the purpose of the flexible application.

Grasp the necessary timing of a good teacher-student interaction:

Classroom teaching is not a process of teachers’ continuous flow of instruction, not is it the practice of the students themselves, but rather it should be an interaction. Teachers’ rational use of interactive in the classroom with students can grasp the extent of knowledge. “Student demonstration”, “Online communication” and “remote counseling” can be used in the Red Spider educational software. Classroom interaction can be prepared in advance and improvising can be carried out by pre-prepared teachers through pre-arranged exchange programs in the teaching process, for example, when a problem is finished by way of discussion or problems, let everyone speak out their own achievement. Spot to play is a temporary problem; teachers in the teaching process should discuss the problem in a timely manner, to study the questions which have arisen due to the solution.

Flexible use of instructional interaction can improve classroom teaching and stimulate students' interest in learning.

Take into account students' individual differences in the ability:

Differences between students, such as intelligence, personality, etc. are an objective reality, teachers cannot deny or ignore the existence of individual differences. In multimedia network teaching, teachers should take into account students' individual differences in the ability to timely adjust the progress of teaching. Teachers can use screen monitor function of the Red Spider educational software to keep abreast of students' understanding of the situation and differences, and discern those who have learned a little better or not, and should be fully aware of whoever has mastered the teaching objective in order to achieve in the classroom counseling targeted. In addition, teachers can promptly adjust the student seat, arranging seats of good students to sit together with poor student in learning. This is not only to promote the progress of poor students, but also to help build the sense of accomplishment of good students who offer helps, which can also reduce the burden on teachers.

Conclusions

The Red Spider software is a very powerful teaching management software, and the rational use of the Red Spider software in the multimedia network classroom can stimulate students' interest, reduce teachers' burden and promote classroom interaction so as to improve teaching effectiveness.