The pace of change and technological advancement in the world has been exponential in the last century or so.
The light bulb was invented in 1879. Since then, we have seen the invention of cars, the telephone, air travel, radio and television.
For today's common man it is hard to imagine how life would have been just a hundred years ago. Unimaginable inventions like submarines, spacecraft and even the atomic bomb have taken place.
Computers, micro-processors and most famously the Internet have come to occupy a place in our everyday lives.
Cloning, 3D Television, holographic images - the world around us is changing at a relentless pace.
That brings us to the question of what changes should we bring in education to keep up to the huge changes happening in our world today?
Think about this - children who are starting Kindergarten today will retire by 2065 or even later. We can only imagine what their world will be like during that time. If we are unable to predict, let alone visualise the future, how can we provide education to our children that prepares them for the future?
As parents and educators we often marvel and envy at the ease with which children learn to use and adapt to technology. They seem to pick up and learn to use the latest phones and gaming devices almost instinctively, while we adults struggle to figure out the mechanics of how they work.
This is a simple example of how we need to test our paradigm of education, reinvent our understanding of teaching and learning and make it relevant for today and also for the future that is nebulous and uncertain.
Beginning with this, we will publish some thoughts we have on this - what changes we can bring and how to the system of education that is rapidly getting out-of-date.
The light bulb was invented in 1879. Since then, we have seen the invention of cars, the telephone, air travel, radio and television.
For today's common man it is hard to imagine how life would have been just a hundred years ago. Unimaginable inventions like submarines, spacecraft and even the atomic bomb have taken place.
Computers, micro-processors and most famously the Internet have come to occupy a place in our everyday lives.
Cloning, 3D Television, holographic images - the world around us is changing at a relentless pace.
That brings us to the question of what changes should we bring in education to keep up to the huge changes happening in our world today?
Think about this - children who are starting Kindergarten today will retire by 2065 or even later. We can only imagine what their world will be like during that time. If we are unable to predict, let alone visualise the future, how can we provide education to our children that prepares them for the future?
As parents and educators we often marvel and envy at the ease with which children learn to use and adapt to technology. They seem to pick up and learn to use the latest phones and gaming devices almost instinctively, while we adults struggle to figure out the mechanics of how they work.
This is a simple example of how we need to test our paradigm of education, reinvent our understanding of teaching and learning and make it relevant for today and also for the future that is nebulous and uncertain.
Beginning with this, we will publish some thoughts we have on this - what changes we can bring and how to the system of education that is rapidly getting out-of-date.
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