By the year 2050, your child’s classroom will not be the same as you remember today. The good thing about this change is that this change is not as bad as people think. In a recent forum of Harvard Graduate School of Education, Cognitive Scientist Howard Gardner has clearly said that all of them should be studied in the same test, assessment from the same test, all this will start to look very old by 2050.
According to Gardner, the coming time will not be to make children to the same book and teach at the same speed. Schools will teach basic things only in the early years. According to him, studies will not be limited for only 18 years nor will the exam be the final scale. In future, children will be judged by their imagination and things made by them. That is, education will move towards personal purpose with uniformity. To be honest, they are not wrong either.
Today, if you go to an average Indian school, then you will see that studies are really on old thinking. Children are forced here, without understanding the questions, the answer is allowed to be repeated and the entire education system is made for the world which is no longer left. But now that AI (artificial intelligence) is knocking on the door of the classroom, the world’s conversation on education is changing. Now the question is, will India listen to this conversation?
Change has started
The Harvard Forum has made it clear that education will not only change a little bit, but a big change has already started. Describing the future picture, Gardner said that children will learn only basic things in the initial years. They will grow on learning paths with the help of reading, writing, mathematics, perhaps coding and then projects, money by themselves and AI.
In this situation, the old model, that is, the same class, the same exam and the same education, are sure to end. It will replace personal, search-based and guided by mentor.
Is the expiry date of Indian schooling has come
Has been different in hearing, isn’t it? And this future is not far away. A 13 -year -old boy from Noida is already learning Spanish from YouTube, holding AI art tool from Reddit and writes better prompts from his tuition teacher. At the same time, his cousin is learning additions on a broken blackboard in a village school in Uttar Pradesh.
This is the real problem of India here. Our education system is not behind, but is divided into two parts. Some children are going far ahead and the rest are still stuck in the 1980 era. The expiry date of Indian schooling has arrived. Simply put, the Indian Education System was neither formed to make creators, nor for Critical Thinker nor for Innovators.
We adopted the system made by the British and spread it with government accuracy, similar books, class according to the fixed age, board exams, where the future of children is fixed only by numbers. This system rewarded the rote but suppressed different thinking and scared so much that he made a bigger problem than relevance.
Then we are surprised why children are not ready for the real world or why they are running towards ‘Edtech’ content online for real studies. Anisha Dhawan, chairperson of a private university in Haryana, says that future education will not be available only in content delivery. In this, curiosity, morality, combination of different subjects will be all that our current education suppresses. It is clear that AI is not just a tool but a mirror which is showing us how old our current system has become.
What warning is the vision of Harvard
Experts in Harvard emphasized that in the coming times, students will not work themselves, but they will handle AI teams, will give direction to creative projects and take decisions where AI’s limit also comes.
Six Faces of Globalization co-author Antthia Roberts said it very beautifully that you will be the director of the actor, the coach of the athlete and the editor of the writer. You will not become a person who means, but will become operators. Ethical thinking, creative manipulation and taking the right decisions will be more important than rote.
Deepika Kulshrestha, principal of a renowned private school in Delhi, believes that the current education does not give children training to think.
She says that if you ask the CBSE Class 11 child, that most of them will not be able to do a moral evaluation of AI’s role because they have never been taught to think. They are only engaged in solving board paper. According to him, this is not the fault of the children, but of the system in which we have imprisoned them.
What India will have to do
If we have to create education again for the generation that grows up with AI, then we have to make real changes. Only policy making or committee report will not work. These are the changes that we have to adopt.
1. Teachers will have to be re -prepared
The future teacher will not be a ‘content dispenser’ but a curiosity coach, moral guide and project guide. For this, they have to train AI-Friendly and according to the future.
2. New models instead of exams
The same board exam no longer shows the correct growth of children. Instead, AI-based assessment is needed, which do not just marks the marks of children but track their progress.
3. Eliminating digital divide
AI revolution is possible only when every child has access to internet and device. Community learning hubs and offline tools are necessary for this.
4. Eliminating the boundary of subjects
Children will have to let the path of their studies set themselves. For example, if children want to read the coding with history, literature with climate science or robotics with Sanskrit, then they have to give these options.
5. Develop Indian model
We have to not copy the West, but to connect the Indian Education with our linguistic, cultural and philosophical diversity. AI should increase our own thinking, not just a copy of others.
Will India jump or lag behind?
The harsh truth is that AI will leave education only by changing education, whether India or not. The only difference is that India will shape this change or will be buried under it. India has population, digital structure and cultural curiosity to jump in future. But he also has exam obsession, bureaucracy and old dharra which can pull him back.
In the Harvard Forum, Gardner had said that the purpose of education should not be just a good job or admission in school. India should listen to this immediately because in the year 2050 it will not matter who topped which board exam. The real difference will be who learned to think that with AI, beyond AI and sometimes against AI.
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