Based on your experience as a learner, what do you think you will be able to get out of this course? And what ideas do you already have about the future of education?
Having been brought up in the primary, secondary and tertiary education
of the 80s and 90s, and now delivering undergraduate programmes to a generation
that is so much different from my environment, especially due to its constant
connectivity with the outside world and peers, I think this course will help me
open my mind to new ways of education that take advantage of, rather than shy
away from or attempt to ignore, the skills of the new generation. Rather than trying
to fit the old ways into the new, we need to explore new inroads into education
from the ground up within the norms of the new society.
Indeed, I foresee the future of education as taking away the teachers
from the centre of attraction and placing them by the side of the students as
they explore, explain to each other, and discuss the learning they are to
undertake. The social networks that students are members of, that they carry
with them throughout their daily lives, including through lectures, are
training them to be participatory and contributive at an equal level – and these
skills need to be built upon and taken advantage of in providing a learning
context that promotes individual efforts to contribute to the social knowledge
of the group.
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