If You Are Asked To Lecture On Education 4
If You Are Asked To Lecture On Education 4
If You Are Asked To Lecture On Education 4
0 and how
schools can help prepare learners for IR 4.0 what will you dwell on? What will be the
meat of your lecture? Show it in an outline made of sentences.
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8. Against this backdrop of students, especially in senior school and tertiary education,
assuming greater responsibility for their own education and development, the World
Economic Forum has predicted that the new skills required by Education 4.0 will be
complex problem-solving, critical thinking, creativity, people management, teamwork and
collaboration, emotional intelligence, judgement and decision-making, service
orientation, negotiation and cognitive flexibility.
To its credit, the National Education Policy 2019 draft prepared by the nine-member
Kasturirangan Committee which is being given its final touches by the Union HRD
ministry, recognises that “the policy comes at a time when the Fourth Industrial
Revolution is already underway and disruptive technologies such as artificial intelligence
have emerged”. The draft broadly endorses the recommendations of the government
think tank NITI Aayog, which in a discussion paper (National Strategy for Artificial
Intelligence #A1ForAll) highlights the challenges of leveraging artificial intelligence in
India. The policy draft also acknowledges other disruptive technologies likely to have a
sizeable impact on higher education. One hopes these recommendations aren’t lost in
implementation.