We often hear that educational system around the globe is non-progressive and has not changed in decades, even in most advanced countries. While I can agree that this is true, the real question is – what is the future of educational environment, how it can be modified, and the most important – should it be changed?
• More practice
While reading books and articles on subject’s topic helps students get the theoretical knowledge, it does not prepare them for real-life troubles. For example, only knowing the structure of how memorandum should be written, student will not be able to produce decent memorandum right away. Only dozens and dozens of written memos will give a student an experience. That’s what teaching of the future will focus on – giving mostly skills and experience, not theory, that may never even be used.
• Technologies are not a replacement for teachers
While technologies may help students gain skills, teachers help students gain motivation, social skills, and give them feedback. AI may be used as an instrument to perfect student’s practical knowledge, but as well as skills are essential, proper guidance from a teacher is a key factor in learning. For example, online courses rarely are valued as much as real-life ones because of human factor in us.
• Technologies will make a teacher’s job easier
Using technologies in education, such as automatic grading system will let teachers concentrate on students, helping them individually, instead of checking and grading dozens of tests all night not. The perfect perspective is that in the future the checking-grading will be automatized to the point where the teacher’s only job will be working with students face-to-face, individually.
Sources:
https://www.christenseninstitute.org/blog/future-of-teaching/
I kinda agree that the education system around the globe isn’t up-to-date. However, we cannot deny that it ain’t improving… I found a lot of new and interesting learning sources on the internet. To start with, I would comment on your opinion about online courses. Yeah, if we are talking about almost-free courses from Udemy, there is a little human factor included (however I participated in one Udemy course, which included nice individual attitude even if it had over 30k participants). There ale also these more expensive online courses, where you have constant contact with your mentor, who motivates you etc.
Moreover, more and more useful learning tools are developed. for example, Minecraft education, which allows teachers to make children play and learn at once.
I also think that schools not only need improvement of tech nad attitude of teachers but also completely new grading system, which would motivate students and treat them individually. Any ideas about this?
I agree with the comment above. We cannot neglect the “standard”, traditional edcuation as we know it is necessary. Contact with other people, “being” around them – meaning not only seeing them on the screen and hearing voice – is very important. The education system needs improvement and expertise while creating the sylabus.
But at later stages like university or just broadening our knowledge, online courses, workshops or videos are a very useful and helpful. Usually they are also quick, effective and don’t force us to leave our home.