The Future of Learning

In a sense, if there was ever a question about whether we should be using technology for learning, I believe that coming out the pandemic has only normalised technology use within the classrooms forever. These thoughts are mirrored by Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft that said:

"“We have seen two years' worth of digital transformation in two months”

Not only has education shifted towards a pure delivery of learning through technology with the support of an eco-system that has worked for our school during COVID times, but a recent Gartner CFO survey revealed that over two-thirds (74%) of companies plan to permanently shift employees to remote work after the crisis ends. Twitter as one example based in San Francisco, told employees back in May that they could work from home indefinitely.

As expected, Big Tech companies are paving the way and education should consider these future skills as part of the learning journey rather than a tool that enabled students to learn in a critical moment.

Of course, we have sorely missed the social interactions, emotional learning, and hands-on activities that the classroom provides, however, with the increasing push of innovative technology features and functions, students are interacting in a new way, a more social way than before through technology.

Let’s go deeper in proposing a hybrid learning model by making sure we are all speaking the same language by categorising all the different types of teaching methods.