Monday, February 04, 2019

Education 4.0

As an accompaniment to the current interest in Industry 4.0 - summarised briefly in a previous blog last year - comes the concept of Education 4.0 as a means to prepare students for the future of life and work.

Peter Fisk, provides an overview on what Education 4.0 may look like and suggests that educators should not be intimidated but work out how, as individuals how to contribute and develop a plan towards moving towards the goal. Be the disruptor, no the disrupted!

There is a slideshare on 'changing the game of education' which summarises the inpact of Industry 4.0 and rationalises the need to shift into and support Education 4.0.

Education 4.0 is describes as a response to the future of education with the following points.


·       responds to the needs of “industry 4.0” or the fourth industrial revolution, where man and machine align to enable new possibilities
·       harnesses the potential of digital technologies, personalised data, open sourced content, and the new humanity of this globally-connected, technology-fueled world
·       establishes a blueprint for the future of learning – lifelong learning – from childhood schooling, to continuous learning  in the workplace, to learning to play a better role in society.


Additionally:


new vision for learning is required to
·       more important to know why you need something, a knowledge or skill, and then where to find it – rather than cramming your head full … don’t try to learn everything!
·       built around each individual, their personal choice of where and how to learn, and tracking of performance through data-based customisation … whatever sits you
·       learning together and from each other – peer to peer learning will dominate, teachers more as facilitators, of communities built around shared learning and aspiration.


And provides the nine trends for education as:

Diverse time and place
Personalised training
Free choice
Project based
Field experience
Data interpretation
Exams will change completely
Student ownership
Mentoring will become more important



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