Education has changed a lot today in comparison to the traditional education that we were offered like in 20 years ago. According to Dr Jackie Gerstein, 4 key areas have been affected: teacher and student roles, curriculum, assessment, and pedagogy.
Teacher’s role
Teachers are no longer the experts and the only source of knowledge. They role has changed to being the mentors, guides and leaders for learning.
Student’s role
Students today have a bigger role in today’s education. They are not passive during their learning but they are actively engaged and responsible for their own learning.
Pedagogy
Today failure and mistakes are seen as part of the learning experience. Instruction is more student-centred rather than teacher-centred. Curriculum is differentiated and personalized rather than being one-size-fits-all curriculum.
Assessment
Summative assessments are steadily decreased and more and more schools adopt formative assessments to provide the opportunity for learning and development throughout education.
In my opinion, the main reason these changes have happened is technology. Due to technology, students have greater access to material they need, they are able to share their ideas with other students and collaborate even with experts on things they like, they can see and judge what is good for them and what is not. These facts lead them to a change of attitude towards education and become more responsible for what they learn. Also, teachers have benefited from technology, as they are able to use it as a tool for better interaction and collaboration in and out of the classroom. Technology has enabled them to assess students in different ways in comparison to the past and most importantly technology has enabled them to improve their teaching (as soon as they know how to best use it of course).
I think the image that follows can explicitly describe the difference in traditional education and 21st century education.
Traditional education vs 21st century education
Below you can see Dr Jackie’s chart where he does a comparison of how education is today and how it used to be:
21st Century Education vs Traditional Education
Source: http://www.educatorstechnology.com
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