INDIAN EDUCATION SCENARIO WITH THE SECOND DECADE OF THE 21st Century ?

INDIAN EDUCATION SCENARIO WITH THE SECOND DECADE OF THE 21st Century ? An emperical study to explore Quality Learning at Schools globally by Dr. Dheeraj Mehrotra

INDIAN EDUCATION SCENARIO WITH THE SECOND DECADE OF THE 21^st Century ?

 

Dr. Dheeraj Mehrotra (NATIONAL AWARDEE)

 

 

To our pride and perfection, the Indian Education is proud to the global education world for the INTENVION OF THE DECIMAL SYSTEM and the DISCOVERY OF ZERO. This dwells our past golden age of Education Scenario. Over the years with the march of time and tide, the education system has delivered progress to the nation and to the world as all Top companies globally pay attention and work on the rolls of Indians who are known for their Expertise and Intelligence.

 

 

The delivery of new order learning for our children explores the intelligence with teachers in demand of being a ROCKSTAR. The application of novel modules integrated with multimedia based packages/ contents applicate to the new learning for our 21^st Century Googlers. The Indian Scenario of Academic climate of schools has had a remarkable sense of change and modularity through the introduction of CCE in particular and it has been rightly nurtured via the Mentor/ Mentee research based delivery by the Central Board of Secondary Education. What I believe in sense is the change which needs to be mustered. As a matter of fact, we must believe in the fact that Learning should be just that, not memorization of content provided by the instructor which limits people who have different learning styles (auditory, visual, kinesthetic etc.) to assimilate the information. Above all the Indian learning scenario needs to be focused towards an outcome, not THE outcome of result allowing for different perspectives of thought and internalization of the subject. Taking it one step further is the collaborative model which incorporates a team on a "hunt" for information forming a conclusion based on personal land shared perspective (synthetic learning) highly desired today.

 

The promotion in the case of implementing the new tools of learning has yielded in generating the Quality cult in schools of today with a spectrum of inputs through the stakeholders viz. Parents, Students and the teachers. As a matter of fact it is true to the world that the teachers are no longer the sole imparters of knowledge but they need to empower the students to learn at pace and at their leisure through personal learning networks keeping their special traits of  talents and interests. The teachers just don’t end up after the class is over but on the jolt for 24 hours around the cyber linkage or social networks further. There is no wall now or the boundary of learning. The innovative educator has to evolve a personal learning network for his or her improvement first. Not only this, it has to reach to the students as well where in there is no boundary of limitation in a big way. It is a way to build ones’ own classroom and one’s own network of learning. The change or the shift here is that we can connect around and share ideas which is not so in the one to many mode of classroom learning.

 

 

The fact lies in the Teacher being an Innovator of traits and essence to explore the attention in the classroom. The priority of taking Education and technology as a means to go together and it laminates with the questions in our minds viz. Should we do more, less? What about virtual schools? Interactive white boards? Cell phones? Facebook and Twitter? Should we let kids be out there on the ‘net? Should we post their pictures? These are legitimate conversations, and each person has to make these kinds of decisions based on their own comfort levels and according to the needs of the individual child. To my knowledge and interest they must be given an opportunity only when required but as a  habbit.

 

The innovative learning is not limited to a physical space but an open learning scenario with preface to one’s comfort at his reading home at home or a TV room at large. It is very much unlike the class room learning with a same group all days, all the time. Here the community is different and the learning is more spectacular further. Here the teacher concerned is the one who has to be engaged and involved in the conversations as a leader or a facilitator further. And this makes the Indian Education System more challenging to face the 21^st Century Learners…who are fertile already with knowledge and come to classrooms to route their intelligence and explore collaborative learning and a Win-Win explorage of situations at times.

 

Kudos to the Teachers who are challenged at all times with students arguing, Sir, tell us something new ! ! This is already in the book !

 

Any comments..! Are we prepared. . . Sounds interesting and we need to prepare for the showcase if we want a patient learning to occur in our classrooms.

 

Dr. Dheeraj Mehrotra

National Awardee, (VP, Academic Training & School Audits)

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