What is the nature of futuristic Education? How is technology going to impact it?

UN Volunteers group discussion.

Topic: What is the nature of futuristic Education? How is technology going to impact it?

• Mr. Alok Kumar Mohanty

Moderator.

Reply:

Azeez

The possibilities are:

Either....

• There may be new reasons “to go to school”

The days of “going to school to get a job” could be slowly replaced by “critically learning so that we come to understand what must be done.”

Children might go to school for delearning or just to meet a specialist of their study area for Consultation. Teachers might become a consultants. School might  become a consultancy.

• The demand for a new kind of assessment.

The futuristic Education might demand a new assesment system. It may not be a measurement. Rather than measurement, true assessment is the process of uncovering understanding. 

Figuring out what a learner does and does not understanding, and moving forward from there.

• New content areas could emerge

Math, science, social studies, and literacy have been the pillars of modern education for over a century. 

Rather than ‘content areas,’ it is now possible to unify learning experiences by new criteria, including the ability to use specific technologies.

This doesn’t mean traditional content areas are unnecessary, but rather that new, more robust–and hopefully more interesting and rebranded–themes are necessary to naturally aggregate content.

• Curriculum might get a change, both in form as well as content

‘Mastery,’ ‘proficiency’ and related terms become old language and might get a new definitions.

 New notions of “mastery” might focus not on academic standards, but media literacy, problem-solving, networking, and other critical strands of a modern, technology-driven society.

• Mobile Learning* or learning on wheels or learning on air.....& self-directed learning could form the core of formal education models.

(*Here Mobile does not mean phone and media)

• Primary school education might get important status as IIT, AIIMS.....and might compete for the  status of NAAC.....

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Or.....

History repeats.

Return back to our old traditional Gurukul Education of Vedic period.

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• AZEEZ: The use of technology in education helps head and hands to work, heartless.

It cannot impart divine principles and policies as Education is supposed to impart a good food to 3Hs, Head-Heart-Hands.

From the past 30years, since the inclusion of Technology in Education results now in half heartless generations now.

The futuristic Education accompanied with Technology might yield good technosavvies and technocrats without a heart of human nature.

So again we go back Vedic Technology in action.

• AZEEZ: At the least we have a hope of turning back to the Vedic period to reconstruct the society. 

What about the westerners?

They are now in advance 50 years ahead. They are the samples for our futuristic Education now.

• Dr Sekar Srinivasan: Wonderful thought process. Westerners project their implementation prospects through common man utility wise and so in limelight as though  they are advanced. Our humility is not stealing the show. Our brain activity is established on occasion of necessities.

• AZEEZ: Education in Technology is good.

Technology in education is ??

• Dr Sekar Srinivasan: Technology in education is an non compromising blend in the modern days where educational resources depend. Changes are dominant in character and as you have rightly discussed in pairing and sharing we should mind last for balences

• Dr Sekar Srinivasan: But technology is only an aid for thought process developments in education

•Mr Alok Kumar Mohanty: Important observation Sir. Everything that we see as technology is an extension of ourselves. It is tied to materialistic life and mundane outlook only. Future is going to be a subjective age where one will discover his/her interconnectedness with the Whole creation experientially not conceptually. Future Education should prepare one to go beyond the conceptual learning only and pave the way for subjective experiential learning.

• Dr Sekar Srinivasan: Again and again we all converge at one point of eastern philosophical ideals of education which is wholistic which provides the scope for realising the secrets of creation and creator without compromising human values. Logics have limitations and inner self realization oriented manifesting the self of deserving personality should come out through the process of learning

• AZEEZ: True. We reflect them through our learnings. And when do we reflect us to the world through our own learnings?

• AZEEZ: We can leave competition with the unknown ideals and philosophies behind. We have our time tested philosophies of Education since 5000 years.

Those whom we are now following, are discovered by just 500 years ago.

We are well civilised 500 generations earlier to them. It is not that easier to loose out philosophies in the name of adventures of technology in our basics.

We equip ourselves and our generation next with the basics of success.

• AZEEZ: Our confusion is due to:

How many blind Indians would pay anything to be able to read the scriptures which are ordained on this earth only to Indians ?

How many deaf Indians would pay anything to be able to hear the variety of languages on this earth which are the Blessings of Indians?. 

How many mute Indians  would pay anything to be able to utter the name of our traditional values ?

And

How many less able bodies would pay anything to walk around the land of India?

We're very rich in every thing and we are proud to be Indians because of our ancestors and lineages. We are the most civilised people on this earth before the world started reading the word and know the meaning of civilization?

But we are just not grateful.

That's the reason we are following someone than to lead them.

May God grant us the ability to make the most of all that He has blessed us with, and that He accepts all our efforts.

• Mrs. Madhumita Jana: As we all know that Changes are inevitable in every sphere of life. Hence the  transformations and changes in Education System is quite obvious. With the advancement in Science, technology and the human mind the Futuristic Education is likely to emphasise more on blended learning where students learn in part through delivery of content and instruction via digital and online media. It is important to note that nformation will no longer be just text based but may get translated to graphical, musical,  audio and visual.

Integrated learning models mostly will  be designed in a way that integrates multiple instruction approaches and leverages the collective talents of many teachers and mentors.

Schools may no longer have writing boards and get replaced by digital boards totally. The classroom design and arrangement will change with time.

There will be a transition from teaching to learning. The course curriculum set by experts and experienced educators will be learnt by students anytime, anywhere at a place that is comfortable for them. Students will probably have the liberty to choose subjects and topics of their own. The word teacher will be  replaced by the words like facilitator, mentor , coach or guide. 

Let us all be ready to see a radical shift in the world of education and unlearn to accept the changes and the challenges.

• Mrs. Buvana: Definetely new kind of assessment is must to understand what what students learnt than what they remembered....

• Mrs. Ishrat Tabassum: MASHAALLAH good points.

I believe we expect a lot from the education system as educators, In the new concept of NEP, It came with a lot of pros and cons in our country, the studies will take place in regional languages and  the basics will be in our own mother tongue, where we won’t be able to communicate and spread awareness out of our own state or language, while the other countries are focusing on evolving through technology and new inventions, and while our children /students will be learning about religious studies, not that studying about religion is a bad thing but our children/ students might not be able to understand or compete with other countries if the whole focus is based on religious beliefs, and we will be left behind. 

Other than that i believe that it will increase discrimination and racism among the children/ students  and they won’t be able to communicate with everybody which will cause lack of communication, and lack of understanding. I don't know what the EDUCATION SYSTEM will be after 5yr  or 10 yrs  Almighty  ALLAH KNOWS BETTER  because  "YESTERDAY WAS HISTORY, TOMORROW IS A MISTERY, TODAY IS  A GIFT ,  so I believe instead of thinking of tomorrow we must focus on TODAY.  think, plan, and initiate for today so that we can have a better tomorrow and "where there is a will, there is way"  we are living in competitive world, so plan out in that way. 

An Educated person is described as a wise and intellectual person, who drives out the cons as much as possible and thinks about improving the system as much as possible, we must prepare our children/ students to be educated to help the country and advance in many other aspects, we must all work as one and focus on the areas where we could make our country a better place INSHAALLAH.

• Mrs Abrar Khan: I have the same vision. 

I believe in focusing more in the present situation rather than the topics about untouchablity and the meaning of evil systems explained  in Indian history. Also the subject can be integrated  with art music robotic which help the students to learn and enjoy their strengths. Also the new edn system  will give platform to select the topics.

•  Dr Sekar Seenivasan: Very well said and congratulations. Thout provoking ideas. Weldone.

A simple comparison I will provide from my street where I live. Four friends right from school days were together upto school finals. Even now they are friends only and all quote them as example for friendship even after their marriage. Raman could get sufficient marks in plus two and his father a lower level government servant could manage to get an engineering seat in a good local engineering college. He did study well got some scholarship and finished his course. In the local campus interview he was selected by some local  automobile company with some very normal pay structure. The mind set of the family was very much satisfactory and Raman also didn't enhance his skills and wanted to be in the comfort zone of his family.

Manikandan and Lakshmanan (twins)who got just pass marks and whose parents were vegetable vendors in the street approached my father for guidance. Then he was the district health officer and so could get the in ITI diploma course for both in automobile trade and welding and painting. Some good street elders paid the fees. They studied well and and after completing the diploma again approached my father stating that in Nagpur there is some institute where automated technology is being taught in their trades. My father consulted their parents and one health inspector was from Nagpur who had settled long back in tamil nadu. He had his parental home and some connection there then. In fifteen days he could after visiting his parents and institute came with a solution. If both could stay in his home along with hi se citizens parents and attend the course everything will be fine. Again all street friends helped for fees and other aspects. Both went learnt new technology and all fine details came back with good grades. A bank manager living in our street could arrange bank loan for setting up their own repair shop with advanced machine s. One good mirasdhar who had no child could volalantarily gift his gadi Ghana place meant for parking bullock carts on 99 years lease at very minimal cost. Now they are the best mechanics and from different parts of state vehicles are pouring for maintenance and repair. They have given employment for six more deserving students.recently they had purchased their own twin house and we'll settled helpful to many poverty stikken children.

Coming to the fourth boy suresh he joined some local grocery shop learnt all nuances of trade assisted his employer getting orders from maharastra Gujarat and many places of North. He could speak read and write hindhi well and established as a loyal worker. His employer as a token of appreciation and gift on his wedding day made him manager of one of his godowns and allowed him to independently function with huge profit share. Even today he is sincere and works for his master ihis area of specialization . He had become the richest of all the four. 

Pity is the first engineering graduate could not even purchase a flat. Let me theoretically comment. The components should be

1. Self confidence building measures

2.Out of box thinking measures

3. Living in out of comfort zone

4. Development of any one individual specialization skills

5. Optimistic about future

6. Learning from others experience 

7. Contantantly enhancing our skills

8.Never feeling shy to approach proper personalities.

9.utilizing all opportunities for our focused goal.

10. Respectin human and ethical values at any stage. 

11. Being loyal and sincere and working with commitment that it is part of nation building exercise and not for mere money or salary sake.

When all these are embedded well then education will have its real worth.

• Mrs. Jemi: Yes. The futuristic Education is going to be completely dependent on technology.

I want like to bring out the technological innovative influential area.

1. Digitized Classrooms: Rather than considering IT a standalone tool or skill, digitization tends to disperse throughout every facet of the classroom.

Examples: tablets, electronic screens, interactive whiteboards, data projectors,

2. Tangible Computing: Embedding computation to the physical via intelligent objects, the internet of things, and connectivity with a profound impact on learning mechanisms.

Examples: reactive materials, reactive furniture, 3D printers, digitally intermediated field trips.

3. Gamification: Billed as an evolution in grading mechanisms, gamification brings instant feedback to acquired knowledge through achievements and points systems.

Examples: student developed apps, educational games, educational programming tools, achievement badges, self-paced learning

4. Virtual/Physical Studios: Bridging the online–offline gap, these future technologies offer a potential future where embodiment is secondary to information access.

Examples: eyewear/HUDs, retinal screens, holography, neuroinfomatics, immersive virtual reality

5. Disintermediation: Undoing the traditional teacher-student model, these technologies offer a scenario where AI handles personalization while teachers focus on teaching.

Examples: telepresence, algo-generated lessons, mobile learning platforms, task-assignment algorithms, S2S teaching platforms, assessment algorithms, student-designed learning mechanics

6. Opening of Information: Dissemination of information outside the physical silos of schools and classrooms, offering feedback and assessment to students anywhere.

Examples: portable academic histories, flipped classrooms, inter-school teaching platforms, digitization of books, open courseware, education app stores, online school communities, video lessons, formal communication.

The futuristic Education is imperative for any School not just to develop the students' present but also prepare them for future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today. ... These classes in general would sharpen student's mental ability and enable him to think beyond the obvious.