Impact of Covid-19 on Education.

As the CBSE Board results get declared this week, it became evidently clear that a lot of disruptions happened in the Education sector due to COVID Pandemic situation. As per an UNESCO report, the pandemic will unfavorably affect more than 290 million understudies across 22 nations because of the conclusion of schools in the wake of the lockdown. And that is what happened.

We were clearly not prepared for one such situation, however an urgent supplement had to take over. Which was online education. Not that virtual education wouldn’t have come otherwise, but it would have taken some time to get acquainted with. So, we can actually say, COVID Pandemic accelerated the inevitable.

In the course of recent years, e-learning has seen an upgrade because of the omnipresent Internet network, the expansion of cell phones and huge advances in innovation.

Thus, calling for further innovations and functions in the Ed-tech industry.

This acceleration of Virtual Education has brought about several advantages for the education sector, which include cost reduction, flexibility, More networking opportunities, better time management and numerous others.

Now, certainly the infrastructure and lack of expertise with digital equipment is still a challenge for many, but this is only supposed to grow with time. Brick and mortar kind of schools cannot all of a sudden switch with virtual classrooms but it is surely in the process and getting only better with internet connectivity.

Why is design thinking important?

Firstly, Bursting the myths, Design thinking is not only for designer. Yes! It is used by designer very prominently but every artist, professional, writer or anybody has used design thinking in their process.

Design thinking is basically a process of understanding the problem or need of user, observing their behavior, handling challenges, create strategies and make solutions for the same. It is a solution-building approach that involves observation, innovation and details.

If we had to lay down the basic processes involved then, first Understanding the problem or need, secondly defining the problem, third ideating the approaches of solutions, fourth prototype of the solution and finally test the solution.

So, this clearly defines that design thinking is not only for designers but is involved in every profession and even to have a solution to real life problems.

This is especially very important for children to learn at a young age to create a solution centric approach, create mindset, observation abilities and attention to details. These skills will help them build a better personality.

It is said, learning to learn is one of the most essential arts. And design thinking caters to it efficiently. When children learn Design thinking they also understand the art of learning. It helps them gain a better understanding and optimally use their learnings.

Hence, it is one of the most required skills, and helps most in building a competent personality of children.

Importance of technological Education.

“If we teach today as we taught yesterday, we rob our children of tomorrow.”

This lines precisely sums up today’s scenario. Today technology plays a much more important role in our lives than it ever had. The dependence, the strength and the usage are much more today.

Hence it becomes all the more important to involve technological education as a part of learning.

While our traditional education did keep a glimpse of what technology could mean to the millennial generation, today education needs to focus more on the power that technology gives us. For this it is required to integrate technological education.

As automation, AI, IoT take over the usual pace of processes, they also bring about innovation, efficiency, time & cost reduction with them. When students are empowered with learnings of these technologies, they tend to have a more open mind that is agile and ready to seek solutions.

Technological education builds up a solution centric approach. As coding develops creative and logical thinking of a student, it also gives them potential to be globally competitive. Today the scenario of education is changing in the entire world.

This is also because unlike previous generations, children already know how to tackle technological devices, how to operate them and how to make most of it. So, it becomes important to educate them of the power technology holds so that they, the future denizens can build innovations recognized everywhere.