challenges for educators
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How to prepare students for the future
Challenges for Educators
Mirza Yawar BaigOpening the world, one mind at a time©
Work Experience: International Speaker, Trainer, Author, Coach,
Leadership Consultant with 16 years in Corporate General Management, 30 years in Training & Organizational Development, specializing in Family Business Consulting & Entrepreneurship
Director / Professional Member: Center for Conflict Resolution & Human Security Indian Society for Applied Behavioural Science
Entrepreneur: 1994: Founded
Education: IIM-A , P-CMM®, MBTI©, WSA©, ISABS
Books: The Business of Family Business An Entrepreneur’s Diary Hiring Winners Leadership Lessons from the Life of Rasoolullah Leadership is a Personal Choice
Member Consultant Panel:USA GE Corporate University, Crotonville Oracle Corporate University, CA AMA International, New York Andersen Corporate University, MNIndia Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore SVP National Police Academy, Hyderabad SSB Academy, Gwaldam, Uttar Akhand LBS Academy of Administration, Mussoorie
Clients Include:GE, Oracle, Motorola, Microsoft, IBM, Digital-Compaq, National Semiconductor, Unilever, BSNL, Tata Indicom, Colgate, Asian Paints, Siemens, Wartsila, MphasiS, CavinKare, EXL Service, World Bank, ICRISAT, World Fish, Tata Corporate, J & J, Accenture, Zeneca Seeds, Shanta Biotech, Advanta, Reuters, Air India, Yusuf Bin Ahmed Kanoo, Olam, Regal Beloit, Reliance World, NIS Sparta, AMKA, Emami Group, Suzlon, JP Morgan, SEW Infrastructure, Rahim Afroze, Expolanka, Brandix
To teach the child to succeed in a future that you know nothing about
Your challenge
Think of your role model
For how many of you is it a parent or a teacher?
What would your children / students say if I were to ask them the same question?
The challenge is to inspire those who we have the maximum facetime
with
Why do you teach?1. History?2. Geography?3. Mathematics?4. Do your exam questions
reflect this?What if you taught keeping the real purpose in mind?
Commercialization of basic education and health care are the worst violence to
society
The first casualty of schooling is imagination.
The second is independence. Confidence dies on its own of
a broken heart. This is called Graduation.
Our schooling slaughters imagination at the altar of
practicality. Practicality is defined by the
past. Imagination defines the
future.
There's no demand until you show possibilities.
So imagination is far more important than intelligence. IQ should mean Imagination
Quotient.
Why else would so-called global leaders make the same
mistakes since the Roman Empire except that they're trained in a flawed system?
How's it possible to know all about the world and that
there's no other world; yet we continue to destroy it?
That's knowledge?
Define the ProductMethod will depend on the
definition
Define our product: What are we trying to create?
What you need to create a plane is not the same as what you need to create a train
Changes must be made in both ‘What’ and ‘How’
Most important need
You can’t build an aircraft in a locomotive factory
Which question denotes excellence?
What was your rank? (Mark percentage)
What did you learn to do?
Is it a surprise that 85% of engineers are unemployable?15
Define your roleTeaching him about flyingTeaching him to fly
Your role definition will dictate your approach
Using knowledge – What new inventions?
New knowledge – What new publications?
Leveraging Knowledge – What impact in society?
Assessment Parameters
Financial benefit is a byproduct
What we need
When was the last time that you rewarded a student for disagreeing
with you?
Question
Challenge
Change
What we produce
We reward compliance and punish questioning
Accept
ComplyContinue
What we must encourage
But we demand conformity and punish diversity
Curiosit
y Imaginatio
n
Creativity
What we must do
But we dampen and discourageSt
imul
ate
Provoke
Engage
Education is not the accumulation of random bits of information, no matter how complex.
Our successful system Rewards compliance Punishes investigation, questioning,
change Focused on stuffing the head with random
bits of information – not on opening the door to lifelong learning
Tests random recall in a specific time window - examsHow many children read text books after the exam?
A system designe
d to create
obedient slaves
The TragedyIs that our system is highly
successful
21st Century LeadershipTo help them to thrive in a
world we know nothing about
If a system is to be judged by its results,
what should we say about our education system
looking at its result – our society?
Challenges for Educators
21st Century and Beyond
Change the approach Teaching how to those who understand why
Add value to what they can learn on their own
Challenge to solve problems Empower innovation and creativity Show them how to succeedBut for that you need to know how
Imagine Engineering colleges inventing innovative
products Business colleges incubating
entrepreneurs Medical colleges pioneering cheaper
health care Degree colleges exploring ways to cure
societal ills Vocational skills training to empower
youth
Why do you exist and what will happen if you don’t?
Primary Question to ask
What problem does my teaching solve?
What do you need to change?
In the way you teach, your infrastructure, timetables?
In the qualifications of your teachers? Do you take feedback from your students? Are your teachers increments based on
them? Do your teachers consult outside your
college?Are your teachers inspirational?
What others are doing Carnegie Mellon:
http://www.cmu.edu/brag/ Inventors of Artificial Intelligence, Wi-Fi,
Kevlar fibre, Java language, Smile ;-)), CAPTCHAs, #hashtags
Udacity: http://bit.ly/1Q6Zv2o (Money back guarantee)
Google 1998, Stanford University Research: Algorithm to rank hypertext
documents by Sergey Brin and Larry Page Product: Google Search Engine which
ranks websites Company: Google Stats: Google is now a $480 billion
company and employs 60,000 people as of November 2015
MRI Scans 1970, Stony Brook University, New York Research: Introducing gradients in the
magnetic field which allows for determining the origin of the radio waves emitted from the nuclei of the object of study by Paul Christian Lauterbur. He won Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2003)
Product: MRI Scans
Nanobots 2015, University of California Research: Nano Robotics, Nanobots in
Blood also known as ‘Swallow the doctor’ Usage: These are tiny robots that can function like our
own white blood cells and destroy bacteria and other pathogens. These miniature robots would function like their full-size equivalents with their own sensors, and propulsion systems and could perform small tasks like delivering chemotherapy 1000 times more powerful than using drugs and would not cause as many side-effects to patients like the current treatments do.
Ingestible Sensors 2015, MIT Research: Vital sign monitoring internally from
the gastrointestinal tract. Ingestible Sensors These minute microchips are orally administered
and have the capability to record bodily processes, fluctuations, and vital signs in real-time, allowing for more accurate and reliable data for physicians to work with.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zq8cfLv84Q
Indians succeed outside India
Vinod Khosla, IIT Delhi, Founded Sun Microsystems, inventor or Java programming language
Sundar Pichai, IIT Roorkee, CEO of Google.
Shantanu Narayen, Osmania University, Hyderabad, CEO of Adobe Systems.
Padmasree Warrior, IIT Delhi, CTO of Cisco Systems. Earlier she was CTO of Motorola
Sabeer Bhatia, BITS, Founded Hotmail which was acquired by Microsoft.
Satya Nadella, Manipal University, CEO of Microsoft.
Universities and Colleges in India
Enrollment by Level of Education
Enrollment by fields of studyField Number ('000)Arts 7,539Science 3,790Commerce & Management 3,571Engineering & Technology 3,262Education 733Medicine 716Law 373Others 218Agriculture 97Veterinary Science 28
20,327
But not one single innovation
So what are we doing?
Number of words Urdu (including phrases & proverbs) 50,000
(Standard Twentieth Century Dictionary: Urdu into English (Delhi, 1980)
Arabic 250,000 http://lughat.blogspot.in/2013/12/does-arabic-have-most-words-dont.html
English 1,025,109.8 (http://www.languagemonitor.com/number-of-words/number-of-words-in-the-english-language-1008879/How do you define the richness of a language?
Who loses? But is English really missing out by not having
distinct words for male camels جمل vs. female camels ناقة ?
Or is Arabic really missing out by not having a word for scones?
But what if I asked, ‘Is Arabic missing out by not having words for Wi-fi, Supernova, Diabetes, Blood Corpuscle, Nanotech, Sensor What defines the richness of a language –
Number of words or contemporary relevance?
So what does it all MEAN for
you as a teacher??
Essence of it all Faster and easier access to information Hugely enhanced computation power,
information storages and hugely fast searches
Potential to forecast scenarios, prepare for eventualities, predict outcomes, options
Potential to control, influence, track, help, network, leverage, surveillance, security, share, empower and earnBut benefits only those who know how to use it
Integrated TeachingA brief glimpse
Connectivity: Show links between subjects
Utility: Show how these apply in real life
Curiosity: Raise questions
Integrated Holistic Teaching
What do the majority of students do with text books once the course
is over?
How do you think history impacts math? How do you think geography impacts
history? How do you think physics impacts
industry?
Integrated Teaching
Then why do you teach subjects in isolation?
Future Class Room Students of multiple ages Several teachers – subject wise +
class teacher Self-learning and discovery Teachers provide support only
Text books dumb down knowledge. Teach original texts
Project: Oceans Biology: Marine plants & animals Physics: Displacement floats ships Chemistry: Why is sea water salty? Geography: Navigation, Orienteering, sailing, Engineering: Ship building History: Maritime history of nations, colonial
domination Trade: Routes, goods, cultural & population
changeLiving knowledge applied in context
Project: Mountains Geology: Isostacy of mountains:
Stabilizing effect Geography: How mountains effect
climate Biology: Mountain flora & fauna History: How mountains affected history
of nationsDraw lessons to connect to
current events
“A successful teacher is one who enables students to leverage their strengths and sets their feet on a path of self discovery where they
constantly strive to make the world a better place.”
It’s not about today
Teaching is about keeping the
excitement of learning alive all
lifelong.
Do you really want to change?
1.What is the cost of changing?2.What is the cost of not changing?3.What will be easy?4.What will be difficult?5.What are you willing to do to make it
happen?
Results are directly proportional to effort
Success is a process of connecting aspirations
to reality
InvestmentCommitmentAdaptabilityPersistence
Ambivalence Passion
If you want to be successful you must
respect one rule: Never lie to yourself. ~ Paulo Coelho
‘SMART’ Goals1. Specific2. Measurable3. Actionable4. Realistic5. Time bound
Action StepsStart
Stop
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