Give and Tech a New Learning Curve

The Economic Times     5th December 2020     Save    
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Context: In education, the digital classroom will endure well into the future. But its success will hinge on the proliferation of tech devices within households, along with a centralized approach.

Steps to be taken:

  • Supporting Private Enterprise: in launching schools and universities on a national scale with a strong tech backbone. The propensity of returns for stakeholders in it is exponential
    • Talent growth rate can be accelerated, which is expected to reach 5-7% by 2024(NASSCOM).
  • Ensure hardware availability: Majority of digital jobs in the future will be tech-centric, such as web and mobile, cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) and big data analysis, IT and cybersecurity/.
    • Enabling environment can be created by rebuilding the education system for students with a focus on learning frameworks, devices and infrastructure.
    • Maintaining the availability of devices would prevent the migration of digitally unequipped student back into the daily workforce due to a slowing economy.
      • Reportedly, only a third of our schoolchildren pursue online education, with an even smaller group signed up for online classes.
    • Reskilling Plan is necessary for growing investments by global MNCs, which will magnify the talent hunt, further widening the supply-demand gap.
    • Adopt a non-linear approach: World Bank Reports provide examples of Uganda:
      • For E.g. Providing public schools with internet access, and each student with a notebook computer which they are encouraged to take them home for continued learning.
      • Academicians in Uganda encourage video games as it helps in accelerating learning.
    • Collaboration between different stakeholder: For redesigning learning platform for future, we need to get industry and corporations, government, and academics on the same page.

Conclusion: Nobody can manage knowledge instead what we can do is manage the environment in which knowledge can be created, discovered, captured, shared, distilled, validated, transferred, adopted, adapted, and applied.

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