Dear Students, Here’s Why We Are Failing You
We need a new direction for education
We live in an increasingly digital world. No surprise here.
Our students grew up in an environment surrounded by digital technology. Yet, our educational system continues to be very traditional — and analog — in its approach. We provide the students with reading materials, build classes and exercises around the materials, and test their knowledge and skills at the end of each course.
Obviously, there are still excellent courses — also too many bad ones. But the question is: Are we failing our students by clinging so tightly to the traditional approach? Why are we forcing our digital native students into a system that was designed in a different age.
Change is necessary
We had an opportunity to change the system.
When forced to teach remotely at the turn of the century, we slowly but surely started to rethink education. But so far, no significant changes have been implemented. Instead, most schools and universities have introduced measures encouraging (and often forcing) students to come to campus and consume information in full lecture rooms again.
We seem to forget that the students and the tools available to them have changed. Their digital…
