Every time i listen to Sir Ken Robinson i am left amazed with the depth of the knowledge, wisdom and research he gets while talking and writing. Every time i listen to him i get new ideas and find new inspiration. The way that he explains about finding your element and paradigm change is very hard to deny. Its just so true! ostensibly!
There are a lot of people hooting about a reform in education. Many Govt have started to increase their educational budget and taking steps forward towards reforming education. According to me, education today is at a stage where we do not need to change and solve surface level operational and content problem, "reformation". When my father was studying, you go to preschool and then go to higher secondary school and then go to college and if you worked hard and did all this well, you are guaranteed a job. This is not the case with us and kids today don'd believe it, they know education is not going to land them a job, however hard they worked. Education in a way is using past solutions for future problems. The level of education has remained the same and is just completely handicapped to face the real world challenges. Hence, It is not enough for an evolution to happen in education but what we need is a "Revolution". We have to wipe out this system from the roots and plant a new seed and nurture it. Answer basic and fundamental questions about education and its role in ones life. We need a new consolidation, perhaps a strong one!
There has to be a complete shift in the paradigm of education in everyone's mind and that is going be the toughest task of this century. One big rock stands in this way is an epidemic called ADHD. This is one big problem of our generation. There is excess information shoved down everyone's throat through social media, iphones, Tv ads and 100s of other channels. And we have a teacher who punishes this poor kid for not paying attention to the boring stuffs that she is teaching. To add on to the misery, this boring stuff is assessed by standardized testing which every kid hates and repels. I don't say standardized testing is bad but it is just NOT ENOUGH. All the educational companies/institutions are actually trying really hard to change the state of assessment and trying to provide more than their academics but clearly there is hardly any progress.
There is no clear solution in the EDtech space either, yet. This is primarily because they are not focused for a paradigm change but are focused towards solving educational problems. Most of the Edtech/colleges/schools work in the interest of industrialism. There are set dates for cohort, there are standard batches, standard time, standard space and standard completion process. Everything towards standardization. We as an Edtech company still have the clay pretty wet and we can mold it in a way which is completely opposite to the current system. Hence changing the paradigm.
Believe.
