I see a future where schools are without boundaries, where toys and tools are same. Where your interests are not decided by exams and grades and creativity flows and fills up every child.
A classroom where you don't have to sit for hours going through cycles of boring lectures, where creativity and making something ordinary brings joy.
Learning should bring joy but what i have observed is most of the teachers don't have attention of their students. The best part of childhood should be school but what we see daily is young ones hating it, mostly making excuses to get off school. We all talk about making learning fun, but it would not happen until parents take active responsibility. There is already a shift in social thought process about education system which has been same for a very long time. Few pioneers have taken a step towards more experiential learning but we will never a see substantial change if parents don’t start taking keen interest in the making leaning more hands on.
The new ABCs of learning should be ‘Acceptance, Belonging and Community’ without which our traditional ABCs would fail as was written by Katrina Schwartz@mindshift.KQED which makes us all think that traditional ABCs have failed actually.
Our schools are more of factories churning out pre programmed robots. It also leaves us with very less source of exploring, experimenting and enterprising when it comes to the curriculum. The first step is to accept the fact that we need to change our age old education system and the change will only come when we as a community take responsibility to bring the change we want to see. Home schooling or activity based learning realizes the basic need that each child has specific needs when it comes to education and the techniques can be moulded specifically.
Lets hope we see the shift in the model soon which realizes the shortcomings of our regular system and focuses on learning by doing.
A classroom where you don't have to sit for hours going through cycles of boring lectures, where creativity and making something ordinary brings joy.
Learning should bring joy but what i have observed is most of the teachers don't have attention of their students. The best part of childhood should be school but what we see daily is young ones hating it, mostly making excuses to get off school. We all talk about making learning fun, but it would not happen until parents take active responsibility. There is already a shift in social thought process about education system which has been same for a very long time. Few pioneers have taken a step towards more experiential learning but we will never a see substantial change if parents don’t start taking keen interest in the making leaning more hands on.
The new ABCs of learning should be ‘Acceptance, Belonging and Community’ without which our traditional ABCs would fail as was written by Katrina Schwartz@mindshift.KQED which makes us all think that traditional ABCs have failed actually.
Our schools are more of factories churning out pre programmed robots. It also leaves us with very less source of exploring, experimenting and enterprising when it comes to the curriculum. The first step is to accept the fact that we need to change our age old education system and the change will only come when we as a community take responsibility to bring the change we want to see. Home schooling or activity based learning realizes the basic need that each child has specific needs when it comes to education and the techniques can be moulded specifically.
Lets hope we see the shift in the model soon which realizes the shortcomings of our regular system and focuses on learning by doing.
