The Future of Education – NARA Education
THE FUTURE
OF EDUCATION
The Future of Education
At NARA Education, we believe that education is the foundation for personal and intellectual growth, financial prosperity, and a fulfilled life. In order to get there, we need to see beyond education in the traditional sense, like strict schooling where students learn and regurgitate facts only to forget them later. A true, life changing education is one that entices the student and gives them the independence to take their learning, and therefore their future into their own hands, making the experience more meaningful and personal.
On that note, in previous posts, we explored the role that education plays in eliminating poverty, building well rounded, curious individuals, and developing strong women. However, education itself doesn’t only transform people, but is also constantly changing as an institution and evolving in the ways that we consume information and use the skills that we learn.
Education in the future will look different from the conventional systems that we grew up with, but future education will be more well rounded, robust, individualized, and stimulating for all students. As a result, children will get more excited about learning and become curious and critically thinking individuals.
There are three major shifts that education in the future will take which include, more holistic education for well-rounded individuals, a greater use of technology in education, and a changing new role for teachers.
Holistic Education in the Future
Our world is changing at an unprecedented rate, becoming more interconnected and dependent than ever before. With climate change, artificial intelligence, and globalization affecting everyone across the world, education in the future will focus more on developing global collaborators who not only know how to add and subtract, but can also think critically and creatively to contribute to the global society.
In changing education for the future, we cannot forget about the foundational basics. The only way to develop empathetic problem solvers is to build on the basic knowledge that schools teach in the first place. Future education cannot lose focus of the basics because even now, 617 million children globally still don’t meet the minimum skills required in reading and math, according to a Google Education study. It is very important that the future of education doesn’t only prioritize holistic critical thinking and creative problem solving, but adds those on to a solid foundation.
Nara Education fully embraces this need by sharpening the basics while empowering students to understand and participate in their local communities, setting them up for continuous lifelong learning outside of the classroom through a growth mindset.
Technology in Education
There is no better way to keep learning than to stay on top of rapidly changing technology which keeps evolving faster and faster in recent years.
For example, how we are changing education for the future is one of the most topical conversations as we are coming off of the most major disruption in education arguably in all of history: the Covid-19 pandemic. During the pandemic, technology became the only way to “attend” school and interact with teachers and students, thrusting technology into first place as the most essential thing for education.
Not only did the new technology in education stick, but more industry disruptors prove that new technologies and new methods of learning are here to stay and needed to encourage self sufficient, critically thinking, and adaptable individuals. Technology in education upgraded itself from a helper side role to the main method of learning. As a result, teachers had to evolve the way they plan, teach, and interact with students to deliver the material in the best way possible given the circumstances.
The New Role of Teachers in Future Education
This is not to say that teachers and mentors will no longer be needed in the future of education, but just that their roles will change and even become more important than before.
Education in the future will have technology deliver the facts and give the students opportunities to interact with the new information they learn. But without the teachers who will help them make sense of how this material is relevant to them and how they can use it, the technology will mean nothing. The role of the teacher will become more of a personal guide than an authority figure, allowing them to focus on nurturing relationships with students, making education more personal, stimulating, and fun for each individual. Through this new model, students will become better listeners and collaborators, preparing them for participating in and shaping their societies.
NARA Education’s Role in the Future of Education
Nara Education is leading the charge in changing education for the future with our new tablet-based virtual school technology to reach children in remote areas who do not have the resources or opportunity to go to school. This technology is the next step in the future of education, as it combines all three aspects of where education is headed: holistic critical thinking, technology in education, and the new role of teachers.
Through implementing these virtual schools, even children (especially young girls) in the most poverty stricken and remote areas can gain an education and interact with new material and mentors to help mold them into conscious members of their societies and break down educational barriers. With this, education in the future will prioritize personalized learning and get away from traditional educational model in order to educate more children in need. Clearly, the traditional model just did not have the capacity to reach these children because Unicef says that 33% of children in low income countries do not go to school.
Conclusion
Our main goal at NARA Education is to turn all these alarming statistics around and help children from all backgrounds become integral and hard working members of their communities to improve the lives of all those in them.
We embrace holistic, individualized learning, new technology, and the evolving role of teachers alongside the changes in our virtual school technology that we hope is changing education for the future. All this eventually will help students keep up with the equally rapidly evolving job market where interpersonal, critical thinking, and problem solving skills have become much more important over concrete skills. The new modern employee is one that can adapt to changing positions and master new technologies.
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Ilona Sindhu
Ilona is a writer focused on Old Norse mythology, drawing from her Hungarian, Pakistani, and American roots. She holds a BA in Dramaturgy and Theatre History from NYU and a Master’s in Religion and Literature from the University of Edinburgh. Her work blends myth, culture, and storytelling across borders.
