With increased autonomy and technology, I wonder what future learners will be!

This week I can feel what teaching or learning would be with the coming generations. With the trend of autonomy we are experiencing in every sector, from education, to media and other sectors I feel a free generation coming. Even today, we are no more in a time where the only news available is what aired by official radios and televisions. Today, we select what we want to read, listen or watch. In other words we build our opinion with resources of our choice. In the future, students will build their careers according to what they want as resources. The time when the teacher is the only master is old now and must help students and learners to acquire autonomy. That’s what I call preparing students for tomorrow’s challenges.

Teaching technology and teaching language!

week 6

As  I move in this Winter Course, I can notice that to implement a technology based lesson in a class, in a country where access to technology is not deeply rooted in the habits, we will need to teach first the tool, and teach the content afterward. I thus see that as a double responsibility. And It will not be easy when you have a large class. But when students learn how to use technology  and master it well, it could be a very interactive, fun and an unforgettable experience. Because of the plurality of the reactions there could be.

Project Based Learning can pave the way for good managers in developing countries!

In countries where there are some serious social and economic problems, and where experts are hired from every part of the world for some development projects, students trained with PBL will be very useful in the future. I believe this because when in their youth they are soon trained to focus on problem or question that has meaning to them and get involved in problem or question that are actually tackled by adults at work or in the community, and requiring students to produce something that has personal and/or social value beyond the classroom. This inspired PBL behaviors can make students soon useful for the implementation of development project that can bring real change to communities and nations. Apart from that the ability to learn decision making and collaborative attitudes are some vital keys for managers and learning them early can help students awake their genius. They will look differently at social problems. Not as we did when we teachers were children, I mean passively. They will acquire as habit that when something is wrong, you take action to correct it whatever your age or field. This is very important and we must try to popularize this Project based Learning, in order to change the mind of the current youth for a better world tomorrow.