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Katherine Walraven
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The future of education
April 7, 2009 - 05:18 PM
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What are your dreams, visions and concerns for the future of education?
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Re: The future of education
April 18, 2009 - 09:51 AM
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As in Thailand, the education system now doesn't rely on the student much. Most of the studying is teacher come into class and just teach and assign works. So, this sometimes doesn't make the students to think creativly. I would like to see, for my country, more is students have more participation in the classroom. For example, in chemistry and physics, there are a lot of experiments learned. Sometimes those are hard to understand the concepts. So technology might come in action here. Simulating the experiments, technology will help students to understand more and have more participation in class.
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Re: The future of education
April 18, 2009 - 10:53 AM
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For me, the future of education should teach the students more analysis, consideration and change the abstract lessons to be the concrete lessons.
The important thing that I think about the future of education is to teach the language subjects to the students like English, Chinese, Spanish, France or Japanese due to this ability will widen out the students' career opportunity in the future.
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As in Thailand, the education system now doesn't rely on the student much. Most of the studying is teacher come into class and just teach and assign works. So, this sometimes doesn't make the students to think creativly. I would like to see, for my country, more is students have more participation in the classroom. For example, in chemistry and physics, there are a lot of experiments learned. Sometimes those are hard to understand the concepts. So technology might come in action here. Simulating the experiments, technology will help students to understand more and have more participation in class.
In Thailand, nowadays ,only few teachers come into the classroom and just teach and assign homeworks but most of the teachers in Thailand use the experiment in every subjects, not only Chemistry or Physics but also Linguistics, Historics or Mathematics too. In addition, the lesson that has a lot of experiments and creative activity is Computer lesson and English lesson (for example; To make a flowchart in a paper and check is it true, if you think it true, you can check it in the computer again, this is the manners of education which help students to analyze and consider). And for English lesson, some Thai teachers teach the affix (include; prefix, root, suffix) because nobody can remember all of the English vocabulary and this manner can help students to learn more about vocabulary, etymology, part of speech and synonym/antonym.
Although, I agree that Thai education system doesn't rely on the student so much, Thai diligent students will exactly gain the knowledge from this education system.
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Re: The future of education
April 23, 2009 - 11:51 AM
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What I sincerely hope to see in the future is equal qualities of education in every country. At this point of time, we can see that different countries have varying qualities of education due to different standards set by each education ministry. Some countries like Singapore, Japan and Australia are labeled to have a relatively more "value-added" education certificates because these countries' education systems are regarded by the public as effective. Sadly, some countries which may still be developing do not have education certificates which are as "value-added" as the former.
I believe that this is the underlying issue behind the widening income disparity between countries. The countries with "value-added" education are observed to have the capability of generating higher GDP than countries which do not have the fore-mentioned "value-added" education. Therefore, I strongly believe that the disparity between countries can only be eliminated through one common education guideline. I feel that countries should not have such unnecessary disparity between them because they should move together hand-in-hand to help each other achieve optimum development.
I agree that my dream for future education may seem too big-scaled to be achieved. Well, something big always start from a dream anyway.
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Re: The future of education
April 24, 2009 - 12:43 AM
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Wow, what a question! 
The future of education lies in adaptation. We cannot approach what needs to be taught and how to teach it in the same way it always has been because the way we use ideas and skills are changing.
I think that the ready accessibility of information (thanks to technology) allows us to rely less on memorising strings of facts and figures, and more on developing critical thinking skills, problem solving and creativity.
Jobs are changing, according to a “Shift Happens” [1] video the average person will have 10 to 14 different jobs by the time they are 38. That isn't how it has always been. This means people need to be adaptable lifelong learners [2].
I think the most urgent changes [3] to be made are better partnerships with schools’ communities and a perspective shift. Everyone (families, communities, governments and ESPECIALLY students) needs to appreciate the wonderful opportunities they have in and from education.
[1] Most recent one I could find, from June 22, 2007 www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMcfrLYDm2U, this is an United States statistic
[2] I know that is a bit of a “buzz word” for teachers but it is a concept I really believe in
[3] I am not sure if this applies nationally or internationally, but I believe it to be true from my experiences
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Re: The future of education
April 25, 2009 - 03:13 AM
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I live in VietNam where the visions of our leaders and their plans make me confused. They really want to boost our education system but the matter is the way they carry out the plan. Even now I am a junior in economics field but I am not sure what kind of job I will do after graduation. The vast majority of VietNamese students get the same trouble like me.
I think the reason is we are not enable to attend any vocational training class before entering college. We don't have any concepts of future career in mind.
I dream about the future where every VietNamese students go to shool, they have clear goal for their future. Therefor, it will motivate them a lot.
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Re: The future of education
April 25, 2009 - 05:13 AM
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i would want students to learn adequately. In our country, education is very big problem. It is not the priority of our government. Many youths do not finish even elementary education. I think before we advance technology, we should first help those who are left behind. Many filipino youth are uneducated and if this continues, our country will not be able to fully utilize its greatest resources- human resources.
I believe that we have the potential to learn and adopt, what we need are the proper tools to convert these potential into wealth of the country
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Re: The future of education
April 25, 2009 - 06:25 AM
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I've decided to continue my study by joining International Relations. Because since I was child, i had a dream to be a diplomat.
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Re: The future of education
April 25, 2009 - 06:28 AM
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I am saddened by the fact that the VietNamese students is having issues with regard to their education system. Though in my country we have lots of issues as well, we are aware and trained with regard to our future careers will be.
In tertiary education, we have what we call on-the-job training in which students are being immersed to different business establishments or other working environment based on their course either as early as 2nd year level and 3rd year level. Students are dressed as what is required with their work, and some are also being paid for their job. In this situation, students can apply what they learned from the classrooms.
I hope this will also be considered by your government and be implemented so that VietNamese students will not be culture shock when it comes to the real world of employment.
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Re: The future of education
April 25, 2009 - 06:57 AM
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The current education system (in NZ) is preparing students to enter into a 1950's workforce.
The majority of current students will enter the workforce into jobs that don't even exist today. What does that tell us?
I think the future of education is about teaching students how to learn. I think the future of education is a lot more focused on the individual as opposed to a whole classroom. It is a lot more valuable to a student to be able to understand how they can use technology and tools to discover what they need to know, rather than rote learning or memorising facts.
We've moved past the industrial age and into the conceptual age... we need students to be able to make connections with the information.
In order for this to become the normal - teachers first need to become adept with technology. They need to understand the opportunity. I think that over time, as a younger generation move into the role of 'teachers'... this will start to happen.
I also believe that a more 'internship/apprenticeship' type model should become the norm. Why should students stay in the standard education system until they are 17/18? They can easily learn all the skills they need to navigate the world by the time they are 15, and then I think education should become a lot more closely integrated with the 'real world'.
Hmmm. I have lots of thoughts on this!
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Re: The future of education
April 25, 2009 - 07:12 AM
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Pamela,
OMG, you sound like a member of the student voice project to a tee!
Last year a group of students from my school worked together on a project to find out these very things that you speak of!
Check out the video we made,'You have a message' to see what we found out 
Also, have you seen the 'Shift Happens' videos?
Check out one of the videos here
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April 25, 2009 - 05:53 PM
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Jerome makes a good point about the importance of human resources. I think meaningful and engaging education should be a priority for every government.
An old Maori saying goes as follows:
He aha te mea nui?
He tangata.
He tangata.
He tangata.
What is the most important thing? It is people, it is people, it is people.
It isn't a crazy totalitarian world like in Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four where power is the point, not people. Education should be valued as a part of econmic, emotional, democratic and intellectual growth!
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April 25, 2009 - 07:44 PM
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Just like Kartini, I believe that education should become a global concept that comprises of equality between regions of different financial and social status, but this is obviously a long way off.
Technology should not serve as a means of increasing disparity due to the expense it entails, it should be accessible for all.
More specifically in terms of teaching methods, teachers need to place less emphasis on there being an exclusively right/wrong answer to every problem. It is evident that by stressing the validity of facts and figures, students are easily left behind.
I believe that teachers need to enourage students to explore possibilities, concepts, and consequences and place heavy emphasis on classroom discussion as a means of inclusion and inspiring students to become proactive and opinionated. I hope that this will culture a generation of articulate youth and potential leaders.
Students should not merely be learning what to think, but how to think.
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Re: The future of education
April 25, 2009 - 08:17 PM
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Thank you very much for sharing your inputs here. It is indeed great!
For me, the future of education is great if and only if we will use further the technology that we have today.
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Re: The future of education
April 25, 2009 - 08:19 PM
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Future Education
Vision: My vision about our future education is that by 2020, student learning will be more advanced through the help of technology.
Concerns: I hope that developed countries should help developing countries in facilitating technology transfers. Still there are some countries, which have less access to technology.
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