The Nobel Prize in
Literature 2019 was awarded to Peter Handke "for an influential work that
with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of
human experience."
The 2019 Booker Prize for Fiction was announced on 14th
October 2019. The Prize was awarded jointly to Margaret Atwood for The
Testaments and Bernardine Evaristo for Girl, Woman, Other. This was
the first time the prize was shared since 1992, despite a rule change banning
joint winners.
A thorough knowledge of Eliot is compulsory for anyone
interested in contemporary literature. Whether he is liked or disliked is of no
importance, but he must be read.
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Born on 26th September 1888 in USA.
Modern Poet and dramatist. One of the great Poets in 20th century
English literature.
Known as Invisible Poet. He called himself OLD POSSUM
Social media: an easiest way to connect with the
world, an impressive way to create virtual identity, and nowadays a handy tool
to communicate with friends and other people as well. In short, it’s an easy
tool to reach millions of people virtually, to impart knowledge, to share
thoughts and lots of things which we love to do.
Social media is not limited just for society but it
also entered the classrooms very effectively. It is possible and it often
happens that students get distracted only because of social media. Even it may
be proved harmful for society as many people specially young generation lose
their lives or get depressed in comparison of likes and dislikes, comments of
friends and many times because of cyber crimes.
Nevertheless, does social media mean only Whatsapp,
facebook, Twitter, Tik Tok, Hangout? No, I don’t think so. However, there are a number of tools which are
the parts of Social media but can be used or I should say are being used for
academic purposes in this present era of technological enhancement.
Blogs are very popular and useful tool for sharing
material with students. It can be used to enhance the communication skills of
the students. Google Classroom is also very helpful tool for teachers as well
as learners to share material, assignment collection, and virtual classroom
communication. Ted talk is also very helpful for not only motivational talks or
knowledge sharing but also for improvement in listening skills.
Hangout or Zoom applications can be used for group
discussion among students, teacher can deliver lecture even during holidays
from their home and students can learn at their time and place. There are
thousands of tools we can consider as a part of social media, which can be
fruitful, if we allow them in the classroom.
Apart from regular studies, it’s important
to learn something new or something related to our syllabus from other
resources available in the market, to expand our knowledge. For that, one of
the best options is to join Massive Open Online Courses. I am glad that I have
recently completed two online courses on Swayam:
It was a course on Academic Writing, What
is AW?, Traits of AW, Plagiarism, How to write AW, and general information
regarding Open Educational Resources.
I have joined this course to expand my
knowledge regarding Research and Academic Writing.
History of English Language and Literature
It was all about the History of English
Language and Literature age wise from Old Age to the Present Era, the contribution
of major writers and effects of Socio-Political events on the development of
language and literature.
I have joined this course to know the
History of English Language and Literature in detail, and it will be helpful to
me for the preparation of NET and SET.
Apart from the content, I have learned so
many things from courses.
How to communicate with unknown people. How to manage regular studies and these
courses all together. To create Open Educational Resources on
YouTube. To appear in Online Exams (Proctored)
Bhakta Kavi Narsinh Mehta Universityhas organized the third Youth Festival AVSAR
2019 on 20th and 21st September 2019 at J S Godhani Mahila Arts and
Commerce College Junagadh.
I have participated
in Debate with Neel Maher from Department of Life Science. We have started
preparation before fifteen days ago. We have prepared for topics i.e. Social
Media, Article 370 and 35A, Traffic rules in India, Demonetization, etc. Before
24 hours of competition, final topics were declared on www.bknmu.edu.in. We
were given three topics and we were asked to choose one. It became very easy
for us as all the topics were the same which we have prepared. We have selected
"Advantages and disadvantages disadvantages of using social media".
We have discussed our points on Social Media again and again. We both were
fully confident for competition.
On 20th September,
we met in Youth Festival, and on the time of registration for debate, we were
informed that you both were not in this competition as your name was not
registered there. We have asked them to search BKNMU department etc. but they
found nothing so we called Jatin Sir our team manager and he helped us to find
out our registered names. Finally we entered the class for competition. We were
eagerly waiting for our turn. There were 42 pairs and total 84 participants for
debate. Most of all the students have selected the same topic and that is
Social Media which we have also selected. We were worried somehow that we have
to repeat the same because all will speak on the same topic then they will
cover our points and no one will be interested in our discussion at last. But
fortunately no one could include our points in their discussion, so we were
safe.
Actually the room
was small and the sound of mike was unbearable for us, we were tired, suffering
from headache and awaiting for our turn. Though it came last so I thought that
wow no one could copy our content otherwise it was possible that others could
make their content better after listening to us. All have discussed Social Media
keeping in mind Whatsapp, Facebook Twitter and Instagram and Tiktok only. They
talked about learning through Social Media but only with Google and YouTube.
I have started my
positive point from the idea that Social Media does not mean only Whatsapp, Facebook,
Twitter, Instagram and Tiktok it also includes Google Classroom, Nicenet, Blog,
Wiki, Hangout, Zoom, Ted talk and so on for education purpose, Blood Help Gujarat app for health, 181 for women help, very good initiative of government
SWAYAM from which we can learn anytime anywhere so many things from experts of
various fields. If we want to learn or join courses in Universities of the
world we can join edx and cousera. If we talk about cyber crime, it not the
disadvantage of social media, for the solution, government has started CyberCrime Branch. So, social media is beneficial for the freedom, protection and
education of female, education, health, connectivity and development of our
nation through Globalization. I have given real example of our department, how
we utilize social media for education.
Negative points
from Neel were also strong. He has included Cyber crime, Cyber bullying,
trolling, mob lynching, cyber attack from Western culture on our ancient
culture, health issues, increased Pollution caused by technology and social
media, harmful radiations, and so on. He has given real life examples and
statistical analysis too.
