“Education systems around the world will undergo major modifications between now and 2030, brought about by the technological revolution. In the next fifteen years, the Internet will turn schools into ‘interactive environments’ that will turn traditional ways of learning upside down and change the way teachers, parents and students behave.
This is one of the conclusions of a group of 645 international experts interviewed for a survey that defines what schooling will be like in the next decade. The report was produced by the World Summit for Innovation in Education (Wise).
Weeks ago, more than two thousand educators, decision-makers and experts from more than one hundred countries met at
Doha around the theme ‘Unlearning, relearning. What it means to be human’. The discussion points show that education in many societies goes far beyond simply meeting coverage targets and international test scores: Should schools teach students how to be happy? Will artificial intelligence make teachers obsolete? Can the latest discoveries in neuroscience make our children smarter? Do students care about what they are learning? Should schools get rid of grading systems? Should students commit a percentage of their future salary to fund their higher education?
Expert predictions for 2030 point out that:
1. Lectures will disappear and the teacher's main mission will be to guide the student through his or her own learning process.
2. The curriculum will be customized to the needs of each student and will value personal and practical skills more than academic content.
3. The Internet will be the main source of knowledge, even more than most basic education institutions.
The final report of the summit - in which linguist Noam Chomsky, former Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Professor Sugata Mitra, among others, took part - states that “schools will become networks” where students will interact with each other and with the teacher in a way that leads to “collaborative learning”.
