The implementation of new technologies means that traditional education has to open up to other horizons, put the emphasis on other fields and help young people to deal with a digital world.
The World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE) is a think tank made up of 15,000 experts from around the world that meets every two years in Doha, capital of the emirate of Qatar, which is thinking about what the future of academic training will look like.
Founded and sponsored by the Qatar Foundation, WISE will hold its tenth biennial summit this year, 2019, in which the main theme will be “learn-unlearn: what it means to be human”. As in previous calls, the objective of this meeting will be to try to sketch the lines of action that will create more prepared and wealthy societies through education.
It was this organization that warned, back in 2014, that online training would be imposed to the detriment of school, the environment of students or cultural organizations within 15 years. He also predicted that the role of teachers would go from being the protagonists of master classes to that of guide and consultant to students. This would allow students to take the initiative more naturally, to be able to work more independently, thus prioritizing their skills over academic knowledge which, thanks to technology, is already easily accessible from wherever the student is.
Pure knowledge, the theoretical basis, no longer has to be memorized because, in reality, the Internet gives us the possibility of solving any doubt that arises with a single click.
A good number of experts from all over the world, moreover, choose to think that the new teaching methodologies are going to banish the old educational paradigm of the student who goes to class, spends an hour in silence taking notes and neither participates nor contributes.
Asdiscussed in this blog, flipped classrooms are a methodology where the student works at home on the basic concepts and then exposes them in class. It is in the classroom where the student puts into practice the knowledge they have acquired on their own through projects (collective or personal) that will be supervised by the teaching staff.
The trend in education tells us that we are heading towards a much more personalized education thanks to technology. The student will be able to choose the schedules, the contents and, above all, the way to learn them with the help of their teachers as support and guidance.
Another of the outstanding trends is to promote creativity among students. Countries such as Japan, as Patrick Newell, an expert at the Future Trends Forum of the Bankinter Innovation Foundation, tells us in this interesting presentation on how the education system works in this unique country.
But, surely, unlike today’s educational centers, the schools of the future will train their students in skills that today are outside the educational environment. Thus, by reducing the time spent on acquiring knowledge through memorization, students will receive training in soft skills such as public speaking, knowing how to work in a team or solving problems outside a safe environment.
Nor can we forget that children are no longer entertained outside the home and without parental supervision. Parents organize their children’s schedules with extracurricular activities, for example. That is why it is necessary for schools to fulfil the mission of instructing pupils in basic social skills in the future. With them, the student will not only be able to make new friends, they will also be able to establish work or business relationships, in the future, with greater solvency.
