Future of education: How to keep up with the digital age?

Everyone knows that the future of the country is built with education. But what about the future of education, how is it created? There is a question that not everyone knows how to answer. Mainly because we live in an Era that is undergoing a process of transformation.

We know that educating is necessary. However, we still need to figure out how to do this in a world totally immersed in technology. Everywhere we look, we see tablets, cell phones, notebooks, smart watches, smart cars, and a wide range of devices that accelerated the technological revolution and are shaping today's society.

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Everything that is happening on the planet requires new cognitive processes and a constant learning routine.

What will make the difference in the educational process will be the way in which this knowledge will be transmitted.

But can you predict how people will learn 10 or 20 years from now?

It's hard, isn't it?!

There are some trends in what the future of education will be like. Do you want to know what they are?

Keep reading this article and soon you will know.

The transformation of classrooms

From the very distant past, the classroom structure has always been the same. There are dozens of chairs lined up, a support for viewing the content to be studied and the presence of a teacher who will transmit the knowledge to his students. There's nothing wrong with this structure, but the tendency is for it to gradually transform.

Classrooms will no longer be a space intended for theoretical teaching and will now have a practical purpose. More interactivity, videos, changes in the classroom division process and approval by competency will be included in the classrooms.

The personalization of teaching

Education in Brazil - and in the world - is increasingly moving towards the personalization of knowledge. There is no longer room for mass education. Each person understands the content taught differently from others. Therefore, there is no sense in different students receiving the same learning. Thus, students above average may have more challenging exercises and those with more difficulty may practice until they reach the appropriate level.

With technology, student performance will be evaluated more accurately. The system will provide data on what obstacles each student must overcome. And the teacher will adapt to the students' needs and bring more innovations according to the behavior of the room.

Freedom of choice

Still using the theme from the topic above, each student will be able to personalize their teaching by choosing the subjects they wish to learn, taking as a reference their personal tastes. Learning platforms can also be chosen. Thus, each one will use the device, program or techniques that they deem necessary for their learning.

Working with practice

So that knowledge is not just in theory, the new teaching methods will put it into practice through projects so that students master the technique and acquire skills such as organization, group work, and leadership.

Other forms of reviews

The evaluation method still used today is no longer as efficient. Test questions may not be the best way to know if a student has learned or not. Since a correct answer may only be the result of decorated content, without necessarily being assimilated.

The trend for the future of education is for evaluations to be carried out through real projects, with students showing in practice what they learned during the academic period.

Hybrid education

Hybrid education takes place with the presence of a traditional education system improved with the use of technology to improve learning.

Today it is impossible to think that a student, with access to countless technological devices, passively accepts knowledge flowing from the teacher's head to his mind, looking at a blackboard written in chalk. Since with a touch of his cell phone screen he absorbs an amount of knowledge that would hardly fit on a classroom blackboard.

Therefore, one of the greatest challenges for schools in this 21st century is to get closer to the students' reality and to use current tools - and that they use for fun - to transmit, together with traditional techniques, the content that they must learn.

This does not mean that the figure of the teacher becomes useless in today's teaching. On the contrary, the presence of an educator is essential to ensure that students have a sense of direction and know how to use technology to learn and, thus, to develop.

Virtual reality

Virtual reality is one of the bets for entertainment in the coming years. However, it can be useful in other very different areas, especially in education. With VR glasses, students can discover different biomes, or visit museums from different parts of the world, or travel to historic cities without leaving the classroom. In other words, it is a very vast field to be discovered and explored.

Use of technology focused on student skills

The future of education depends mainly on each student's own experience and how each one is better adapted to the study tools. Thus, there are students who will prefer to learn through virtual reality; others will feel more comfortable with videos; still others will do better studying with prototypes; doing research; and applying what they learn in practice.

Finally, the trend for the future is the focus on the abilities of each individual.

Conclusion

Regardless of how or what technology your school uses, the main fact is that it will not be possible to escape it. And this will happen at every stage of the educational process, from enrollment to student evaluations.

Many schools, for example, already use the Clicksign Automation, which is an automation and contract management platform to organize your enrollment. As a result, the process of registering for the chosen courses is more consistent with the reality of the current school environment. With the Clicksign Automation it is possible for the customer to fill out the registration form and sign it electronically, without the need to print any sheet of paper. This contract will be stored in the cloud by the platform itself.

Enter yourself for the future as well. Use Clicksign Automation!

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