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what do you think you will be able to get out of the course Future of Education ? And what ideas do you already have about the future of education?

10/3/2014

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Things to get from this course -
I enrolled to this course with a true intention of exploring the future of education. As a learner, educator I learn my self how do I learn effectively. I found my self working with others discussing a topic , working on a team to explore answers really worked.

I have taken other courses about education, leaders of Learning in HarvardX , in this course I would like to see how people on this course particularly
  • Think about education,
  • What practices already there,
  • Are we expecting a change in the way we educate..ect .. 

Ideas for future of education
I am glad  to talk about this kind of topic. There are so many problems with the education we have. No one is actuality thinking about the future of education in terms of the process, but they always talk in terms of technology. Technology is just a tool or a facilitator, where we have to define and draw the line of the process.

We are talking of industrial revolutions, changing the the way we work, but it is very less that we have changed the way we learn or education. We still practice 200 years old method of one man delivering a lecture in front of class. It is pity that even after 200 years still it is not changed even having very poor outcome.


We are moving to the 21st century and we will need many skills in order to survive in the future.
i,e- Critical thinking , collaborative problem solving, creative thinking, effective communication .

We need our education to enrich these skills, so I think people will embrace more on Project base learning, collaborative learning, connected learning ect..

I think the model of schooling morning to afternoon, grade 1 to grade 12 concept should change, learning happens anywhere any age. It can not be bound to grade 1 to grade 12. Peer learning and collaboration between older and younger students should encouraged. 

If you see this Video of Re thinking learning in digital world by a professor in MIT ( Mitch Resnick) You will have a clear idea of what is my dream or how I see the education.

It is really important as the technology has given us the opportunity to re-think of the education or

  • What we learn
  • How we learn
  • Where we learn
  • When we learn
  • Who learn with

    It is really true that not many people thought it this aspect. It is very true that we have with the internet is the information, but how can we use it to learn or in education..?

    The model of expert delivering information to a learner has become computer delivering information to the learner.. Professor Mitch is right, it is time to worry about that process, and re think where does the learning or education happens in that process.

    Learning is about active constructive of new Knowledge _ Psychology Zompier Jay.

    So what I see is the future of education is without boundaries for age, time , location and people...

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