This Paper tries to describe about the ancient teaching of Tamilnadu. How the education system was established by the early Tamils? And how one person become a teacher in the earliest and what are the names given to them and what are the tools used for the teaching. The earliest education based on moral development. Moral values are much needed “to inspire, propel, and equip the learners with adequate skills, awareness, and values was taught. However, this paper tries to answer for the origin of the Tamil alphabet and how the bardic culture and Thymesian culture evolves in ancient education. and also this paper deals how the scribal culture helps us for the teaching.

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the application of 'EDMODO' -a social networking tool in teaching writing skills among students in Sultan Idris Education University. This research has been conducted among 30 first year students of Tamil Course. The guiding research questions for this study were 1) what are the differences in terms of thinking skills found between keyboarding and handwriting? 2) How often does students involve in using social networking as an education tool? Instruments used for this research were subjective questions and questionnaire. Student's comments were analyzed using Thinking Moves which is based on Bloom's Revised Thinking Taxonomy. From the research it has been concluded that complex thinking skills such as analyzing, evaluating and creating were not reflected completely in keyboarding compared to handwriting skills. Research findings also revealed the mistakes made by the students during keyboarding which was rare in handwriting. The outcome of the analysis suggests that application of social networking in teaching writing skills need to be revised as it does not encourages student to think deeper. It should be used wisely during teaching and learning.

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