CRITICAL UNDERSTANDING OF

ICT

ASSIGNMENT: - 2

SATYAM COLLEGE OF
EDUCATION
(NOIDA)

SUBMITTED TO: MS. Anshul Gupta

SUBMITTED BY: Anjali Dass

REG. NO. : 989

COURSE : B.Ed (1st Year)

SESSION :2019-21
 PREFACE
As a part of B.Ed curriculum and in order to gain practice knowledge
about the ‘Benefits of Educational websites and videos’ I was asked to
make the research on the same.

For my assignment, I chose three educational websites and videos

related to my topic of interest.

The main objective of this assignment is to analyse the usefulness of

educational the usefulness of educational websites and videos.

In this assignment, I have chosen ‘STRUCTURE OF THE EARTH’ from

class7 th class from NCERT as my topic of interest and selected three
different educational websites and videos to compare and analyse their
usefulness regarding the students.

This project has helped me to enhance my knowledge and

understanding the effectiveness of educational websites and videos
being helpful to the students.
 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

I would like to express my special thanks of gratitude to

my teacher Ms. Anshul Gupta as well as our Principal
mam Dr. Bineeta Aggarwal who gave me the opportunity
to do this wonderful project on the topic ‘Benefits of
Educational websites and videos’ , which also helped me
in doing a lot of research and I came to know about so
many things. I am really thankful to them.
 INDEX
➢Introduction to educational websites

➢Need and importance of educational websites

➢Topic of interest: “STRUCTURE OF THE

EARTH”

➢Researched educational websites

➢Online educational videos and their importance

➢ Researched online educational videos

➢Self – Reflection
 INTRODUCTION TO EDUCATIONAL
WEBSITES
In the past, learning and education simply meant face-to-face lectures,
reading books or printed handouts, taking notes and completing
assignments generally in the form of answering questions or writing
essays . In short ,education , learning, and teaching were considered
impossible without a teacher, books and chalkboards. Today, education
and training have taken on a whole new meaning . Computers are an
essential part of every classroom and teachers are using DVDs, CD-
ROMS and videos to show students how things work and operate.
Students can interact with the subject matters through the use of such
web based tools and CD- ROMS. Moreover, each student can progress
at his own pause.

The role of technology the field of education is four fold: it is included

as a part of the curriculum, as an instructions and also as a tool to
enhance the entire learning process. Education has gone from passive
and reactive to interactive and aggressive. Education is essential in co-
operate and academic settings. In the former, education or training is
used to help workers do things differently than they did before. In the
latter; education is geared towards creating curiosity in the minds of
students.

Educational websites can include websites that have games,

videos or topic related resources that act as tools to enhance
learning and supplement classroom teaching.
 EDUCATIONAL WEBSITES:
NEED AND IMPORTANCE
In emergent education, it is often helpful to use websites as a means of
distributing information from teacher to student and from student to teacher.
The following are the importance of educational websites

❖ Educational websites provides resource for the students.

❖ • Educational websites equips the student with update knowledge.

❖ • Educational websites helps to explore novel idea among students.
❖ • By creating an educational websites, we can enhance the studies and to
create an emergent classroom.
❖ • It is very useful for students easy to follow information embedded
pages
❖ • This websites helps the students to develop critical thinking
❖ In this emergent education we have seen lot of educational websites created
by experts for provoking thoughts in students.
❖ The following are some examples of educational websites
❖ • www.vedantu.com
❖ • www.interactivemath.com
❖ • www.insidemathematics.org
❖ • Interactivesites.weebly.com
❖ • galileo.org
❖ • www.math.com
❖ • www.mathsisfun.com
❖ • www.mathplayground.com
❖ • www.aaamath.com
❖ • www.aplusmath.com
❖ • www.learnnext.com
❖ • www.allmath.com
 ❖TOPIC OF INTEREST: “STRUCTURE OF
THE EARTH” (GEOGRAPHY, CLASS-7TH
The Earth's Structure

The earth is made up of three different layers: the crust, the

mantle and the core. The interior of the Earth, like that of the other
terrestrial planets, is chemically divided into layers. The Earth has
an outer silicate solid crust, a highly viscous mantle, a liquid outer
core that is much less viscous than the mantle, and a solid inner
core. Many of the rocks now making up the Earth's crust formed
less than 100 million years ago; however the oldest known
mineral grains are 4.4 billion years old, indicating that the Earth
has had a solid crust for at least that long.

CRUST: There are two different types of crust: thin oceanic crust
that underlies the ocean basins, and thicker continental crust that
underlies the continents. These two different types of crust are
made up of different types of rock. The thin oceanic crust is
composed of primarily of basalt, and the thicker continental crust
is composed primarily of granite. The low density of the thick
continental crust allows it to "float" in high relief on the much
higher density mantle below.
MANTLE : The mantle lies below the crust and is up to 2900 km
thick. It consists of hot, dense, iron and magnesium-rich solid
rock. The crust and the upper part of the mantle make up the
lithosphere, which is broken into plates, both large and small.
CORE: The core is the centre of the earth and is made up of two
parts: the liquid outer core and solid inner core. The outer core is
made of nickel, iron and molten rock. Temperatures here can
reach up to 50,000 C.

The boundaries between these layers were discovered

by seismographs which showed the way vibrations bounced off the
layers during earthquakes. Between the Earth's crust and the mantle is
a boundary called the moho. It was the first discovery of a major
change in the Earth's structure as one goes deeper.
 RESEARCHED EDUCATIONAL
WEBSITES

WEBSITE: 1:- Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structure_of_the_Earth

While searching my topic on the internet the very first website that popped at
the top of the screen was Wikipedia. It is one of the most preferred websites
by the students as it is very well known and well established website. It was
founded by Jimmy Wals and Larry Sanger on January 15, 2001. The main
reason of its popularity is that it is available in 300 languages.

The content ‘Structure of the earth is widely explained in this educational

website. Firstly, An 3D attractive diagram of structure of the earth is shown at
the top of the page. Then the introduction of meaning of structure of earth is
given. After meaning, we found the interior layers of the earth mentioned.
After clicking on this website, there was the introduction of the topic where
the meaning and definition of Structure of the earth was given. The next
paragraph was about the origin of the factual information about the crust ,
mantle and core of earth. The website divided the one paragraph from the
next by putting sub-headings in between.The three different layers of the
earth was briefly described.

• POSITIVE REVIEWS: The above mentioned website provides

solutions topic by topic to the reader in a proper manner.
• It also summarizes the lengthy text, which helps the students to
revise quickly.
• The meaning and definition of Structure of the earth was well
defined.
• Sub Topics were written in the Bold fonts.
• The Approach of explanation to layers of earth helped me to get
the idea of various factors about the layers of earth
• The bibliography and externals links for more reference were
given in the last which was the best thing about this website.
• It also provides aids such as videos, answering questions and
assisting students personally.

• NEGATIVE REVIEWS: On the other hand the website uses a

difficult language style.
• And does not provide subtopics of the chapter which is not
necessarily understandable to the reader.
• Also the whole website is quite boring as it do not show any
kind of pictures related to the topic but useless advertisements
which appear again and again.
• 3) The website only covered the general ideas about the topic.
• 4) The Structure of the earth was briefly described and the
content was very much limited.
WEBSITE: 2:- DISCOVERING GEOLOGY
https://www.bgs.ac.uk/discoveringGeology/hazards/earthquakes/structureOfEart
h.html

This is the world’s most comprehensive online collection of scientific,

technological, social science journals, books and reference works. It was
founded in 2010. The main aim of this website is they believe every
student is unique and learns differently and works towards helping them
learn better.
This website has almost all the material about the concept was looking
for. It starts with the general meaning and gradually moved to the
critical understanding of the structure of the earth. This website covered
the definition, functions of layers of the earth and made us understand
how earth is made of three different layers and what interior structure
of earth is. It had a quiz option in the last to check your knowledge
about the content. To use that quiz option first leaner has to sign up for
that.
• POSITIVE REVIEWS: - Its material is summarized and divided
into concise points.
• It also shows the subtopics in bold letters and uses easy
language style which helps the students to understand material
more easily.
• The above shown website is not only for class 7th students but
also for the civil aspirants and offers assistance.

• The website attempted to cover all the aspects of the topic.

• Explaining the points by using colourful pictures.
• The language of the content was very simple and easy to
understand.
• To make the concept more effective, the keywords were given in
the last.

• NEGATIVE REVIEWS: - The material of the text has been cut

short which means that it had missed out some important
points which can affect the preparation of the student.
• The pop-ups are quite frequent which can distract a student
while reading.
• The website couldn’t deal with the background of the concept
which is always considered as the important part to start with
any introduction.
• 2) The websites fails to give any proper meaning and definition
of the topic.
• 3) Although it covered all the aspects of the concept but that
was just an overview and nothing was in the deep.
WEBSITE:3 :- Geoscience news and infomation
https://geology.com/nsta/earth-internal-structure.shtml

Geology.com is one of the internet's leading websites for

earth science news and information. Every day thousands
of people visit Geology.com to read about rocks, minerals,
gems, oil and gas, geologic hazards, meteorites, and many
other topics.

Hobart M. King is a geologist with over 40 years of

experience. He writes most of the articles that appear on
Geology.com and compiles the daily news.
• POSITIVE REVIEWS: The above mentioned website seems to
be very tidy as it does not contain any kind of ads or popup.
• It discusses about all the important topics given in the text and
uses easy language style which is understandable to a young
reader.
• The presentation of the site is quite good as it contains topics,
subtopics and bullet points.
• Maintaining the flow of the concept throughout.
• The website took reference from different articles.
• The presentation of the site is quite good as it contains topics,
subtopics and bullet points

• NEGATIVE REVIEWS: On the other hand the website is not

that interesting as it do not contain flowcharts and images
related to the topic.
• This website does not provide any solutions for the questions
and also there is no option of other aids and personal
assistance for the students.
• ) The language of the content was quite complex. Complexity of
language actually breaks the flow of the reader.
• 2) The content was taken from the perspective of Greek and
British philosophers.
• 3) Explanation of the topic was very esoteric.
• 4) Much focus was given to the philosophies rather than the
reality.
• 5) Number of examples was very less.
 EDUCATIONAL VIDEOS: NEED AND
IMPORTANCE
One of the effective applications of technology aided instruction is
interactive instructional videos. Interactive instructional Videos are
effective designs which include texts, sounds, pictures,
photographs, illustrations, animations and other multimedia
modes.
The influence of digital videos on our everyday culture is
undeniable. Students today are utilizing educational videos as tool
for learning everything. The benefits of using educational videos are
numerous:

With digital videos continuing to gain popularity, it seems only natural

that this familiar and widespread platform extends into the education
setting.

❖ Videos create more engaging sensory experience that using print materials
alone. Learners actually get to see and hear the concept being taught.
❖ Videos increase knowledge retention, since they can be stopped and relayed
as many times as needed. They can also be reviewed long after the initial
lesson was taught.
❖ They increase proficiency in digital literacy and communication, which are
important 21st century skills.
❖ Videos increase student’s engagement, which in turn helps boost
achievement. If students are interested in the materials, they will better
process and remember it.

The use of videos in teaching and learning serves to not only benefit
students, but also teachers and their affiliated institutions. A 2015
study conducted by software company Kaltura concluded that 93%
of teachers believe that the use of educational videos improves the
learning experience. They also serve to break down barriers, such
as student and campus location, which were once insurmountable.

RESEARCHED EDUCATIONAL
VIDEOS
Here, I have selected top three online educational videos which
appeared on the YOUTUBE website after searching for the topic
“JUDICIARY” of class 8th civics book NCERT. These videos are easily
accessible to the student and provide a proper visual aid in their
studies.

VIDEO: 1:- TEACH NEXT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLpXju5QsKU

The very first videos deals with the Introduction to the structure of Earth and
showing the crust , mantle amd core in a 3D diagram with full explanation.
• POSITIVE REVIEWS: The above shown video is quite
impressive as it uses a fluent language which is used at the
background of the video.
• It properly shows moving flowcharts and images related to the
topic.
• The video is quite interesting as it uses good examples and
makes the viewer feel like its talking to them.
• A very much deep explanation about the topic.
• The videos clearly showed that the instructor is very much
knowledge about the topic.
• Number of examples was good enough.

• NEGATIVE REVIEWS: On the other hand the video’s length is

quite short.
• It does not cover all the topics of the text and do not answers
the textual questions which can prove to be less helpful to the
learner.
• Usage of old text materials
• Old method of watching the instructor speaking, speaking and
speaking.
• Old method of teaching through the PPT only
• The video clarity was not good.
VEDIO: 2:- Examrace https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMMC00Owm-

ANAYSIS OF THIS EDUCATIONAL VIDEO:

• POSITIVE REVIEWS:
• This video is quite detailed as the tutor present in it has
explained the text topic by topic.
• The tutor has covered all the chapter and gave good examples
• The most impressive part is the use of white board and side by
side of the projector which makes the video impressive.
• The video has provided us the subtitles so that learner can
understand thing more clear.
• Usage of graphic designs were very good.

• NAGATIVE REVIEWS:
• Apart from the positivity, the video is not that interesting as it
follows the regular classroom teaching style and does not
provide much newness to the students.
 • The tutor in the video is being speedy with the concept and
making the material a bit complicated which can confuse the
learner.
• The whole video was revolving around the symbols and couldn’t
cover all the aspects of content.
• The video talked about only 4-5 big parties and neglected the
role of other small parties who help big parties during coalition.

VIDEO:3 :- STUDY WITH NCERT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNURD1A8v4c
 • POSITIVE REVIEWS: The video provides a good explanation of the
textual material and the voice is clear.
• The tutor uses the mouse and its cursor to move, mark and point out
the important topics in the material which my help the students to
focus.

• NEGATIVE REVIEWS: The video is quite boring as it only uses the

textual images and nothing other than that; flowcharts.
• The tutor in the video is mostly using only one language which is not
necessarily familiar to all the viewer students.
• The video lacks creativity and imagination as there is no use of real life
examples which proves to less helpful to the learner.

SELF-REFLECTION
After researching and analysing all these educational website and online videos I
realised that how much helpful internet and technology is for today’s children.
Internet and technology plays a very vital role in education. It is no doubt that in
this modern era everyone prefers Google for their queries, problems or doubts.
Popular search engines like Yahoo, Google, etc. are the topmost choice of people
as these offer an easy and instant reach to the vast amount of information in just
a few seconds. It contains a wealth of knowledge that can be searched at any
time. The internet has introduced improvements in technology,
communication, and online entertainment.

Researches shown that, time and again that students learn best when they
are engaged. Through the use of technology, students can become active
participants as opposed to passive ones where they simply receive information.
Perhaps the greatest impact of technology in the field of learning is its ability to
help several people learn simultaneously from different locations.
The Educational websites and the Videos have helped eliminate the need for
an instructor based lesson plans. Individual pacing is one of the most important
aspects, and is helpful to all. Naturally, for education technology to have a positive
effect on students, it should be designed and prepared well.