The introduction of AI-based learning, coding, robotics; electronics, 3-D printing, augmented reality, machine learning, and so on, is set to revolutionise the educational industry, with an increase in the use of self-help learning tools says, Vishakha Gupta, Principal, Beacon High School, Pune in an interview with Nidhi Shail Kujur of Elets News Network (ENN).
Tell us about your achievements in terms of ‘Innovation in Education’ during the year 2022.
Education has been revolutionized post-Covid where things have moved from the offline to the Hybrid model. Better IT equipped teachers are the demand of the time where they can handle both classroom instruction as well as Tech-enabled.
a. The teachers have been made tech-savvy and the plethora of activities and teaching tools that are being generated are commendable.
b. Also educating the children by covering up the knowledge loss was a challenge which was efficiently handled through extra teaching sessions.
c. The students were given tasks to get them back in the practice of writing; by exposing them to a lot of project work on interesting themes, inclining them to pen down content without the hint was aimed at enhancing writing skills.
d. Importance of Parent’s involvement was understood thus parent participation programs were initiated.
e. Training and counselling for students, staff and parents were identified as the key need to reassure them, and multitudes of sessions were held.
f. Skill development was understood as the need of the hour hence skill development sessions were organized to incline the student’s interest towards learning various skill sets.
How futuristic technologies are going to transform education in the year 2023?
Futuristic technologies are going to change the face of the education world at a very fast pace. The introduction of AI-based learning, coding, robotics; electronics, 3-D printing, augmented reality, machine learning etc; is here to revolutionise the educational industry where self-help learning tools will find an influx in the education domain. The dependency of the child on the teacher and the textbook alone will see a drastic reduction, turning the entire scene to need-based learning. The happy part is that the child will get precise and immediate answers to all his questions, and the teachers will find a helping hand for clarifying the concepts but this will also lead to a sad situation where the teacher student bond may loosen and the connection gradually lost over the years.
What are the innovations that accelerated the transformation of growth in the education landscape in the year 2022?
Covid -19 infused change and the need to be prepared for any such eventuality in the future, led to the understanding of alternate learning methods and thereby accelerating the transformational process of growth in the field of education and metamorphosizing the teaching – learning methods, culminating in the introduction of AI-based learning, coding, robotics; electronics, 3-D printing, augmented reality, and machine learning, due to the hybrid model of education.
What is your mission and vision to impact the paradigm shift of the education arena in the year 2023?
A paradigm of the education arena upended and replaced the prior paradigm, resulting from the accumulation of anomalies or evidence that challenged the status quo. This shift has opened up a range of new lifelines for personal and professional growth, presenting more opportunities than before. Hence my mission and vision are to integrate modern learning mythologies with age-old concepts for developing a global perspective and prepare future-ready citizens, geared to face the unknown that waits to be revealed.
