The future of education is in the students’ hands

LUZ ADRIANA CARDONA SANCHEZ

     The procedure of the class needs to be changed. May people have thought about themselves living the English culture? May people have thought about communicating with foreign people just being the center of the class? Would people dare to study in this way? Now, they can design their project and live their dreams. It is time to move forward and touch the whole world around through this language. Frey (2007) found that the highest leverage point for improving society is our education system. According to this author, what people need is called: Transition from Teaching to Learning. It means that everybody will have a personal development by exploring their skills through the elements they prefer. 

     The education system of the future will undergo a transition from a heavy emphasis on teaching to a heavy emphasis on learning says Frey (2007). That  is to say that the transition from teaching to learning is based on a system whose target is to develop the intellect. This process combines the students’ aim for independent research and solving problems while they are thinking, participating, proposing and designing. In this way, the only one thing the students have to do is just to turn on their brain, let the ideas of their mind come out and share them without worrying about making mistakes.  

    Now pretend that the future of education is our hands, imagine classes where students are the main character and they have to solve a situation. The teacher is a kind of adviser. In the future, according to Frey (2007) teachers will transition from topic experts to a role in which they act more as guides and coaches. While the students arrive to class, they notice that it says on the whiteboard : “how can you keep  the school clean?” for this assignment, it is necessary to work in groups and consult: what ideas   they all  have and start a process of cooperation, observation, reflection and production.

     

References

     Frey, T., (2007) Executive Director and Senior Futurist at the DaVinci Institute.

     Medina,  C., (1990) La enseñanza problemica en Colombia. Ed. Rodriguez Quito Editores

     Robinson,  k.,  y Aronica,  L., (2009). The element, (1st ed.) September, 2010.

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