Our education system is a construct of the industrial age: our traditional classrooms were based on one-way learning and designed to prepare students to work in a manufacturing-based economy. This model is now redundant.
Today’s students are exposed to digital technology from birth, they do best in an interactive environment – where learning is experiential and involves high levels of sensory stimulation. We need to build this as standard into our curriculum. Work sheets, rote learning and lecture-based teaching are no longer appropriate.
At the same time, administrative tasks and processes have increased the burden on teachers. We must ease this burden, freeing our educators to focus on what they do best.
We need our education systems to teach the skills Bangladesh need for a digital economy. Globalization and technology advances are rapidly changing skill requirements. Tomorrow’s graduates will primarily be employed as knowledge workers in our services-based economy. We need to give them the skills to succeed in this very different work environment.
• Adaptive learning programs and learning portfolios for students.
• Collaborative technologies and digital learning resources for teachers and students.
• Computerized administration, monitoring and reporting to keep teachers in the classroom.
• Better information on our learners.
• Online learning resources for students everywhere.
