Top Ten Global Trends that Force Us to Rethink Education

5 Juli, 2007 in Dunia Kampus

Sebagai insan dalam dunia pendidikan, banyak hal yang harus kita pertimbangkan. Antara lain adalah bagaimana agar peserta didik kita bisa mengatasi berbagai tantangan hidup di zamannya. Dunia berubah begitu cepat sekali, sementara adaptasi dunia pendidikan terhadap perubahan tersebut relatif lebih lambat. Karena itu menjadi tantangan bagi para pendidik untuk selalu dapat menyesuaikan diri dengan berbagai paradigma perubahan tersebut.

Berikut ini ada artikel menarik tentang apa yang harus kita pertimbangkan agar peserta didik bisa mengatasi berbagai tantangan hidup di zamannya.

Sumber :

http://www.educationfutures.com/2007/06/18/top-ten-global-trends-that-force-us-to-rethink-education/

We open our ten days of top ten lists with a list of global trends that
force us to rethink education. What does the future hold for today’s
students in the 21st Century? In a future driven by globalization,
knowledge, innovation, and accelerating change, education will need to
be re-missioned to meet new needs:

1. A global, knowledge-based society: Ubiquitous and ever-opening
access to information creates a need for skilled workers who can
transform information to meaningful, new knowledge.

2. The innovation-based society is emerging: Successful members of
society will create innovative and contextually-relevant
applications for new knowledge.

3. Knowledge and innovation-based jobs are moving to India and China:
Western companies have already learned that it makes sense to move
industrial jobs offshore. Today, many companies are beginning to
move their creativity and R&D jobs to markets with lower labor
costs.

4. Personal success in the innovation society will require novelty at
the individual level: Standardization and centralization at the
workplace will give way to individualization and decentralization.
Employees will be viewed and rewarded for their creative inputs as
individuals, not for the roles they could play as proceduralized
automatons.

5. Technology changes human relations: Advances in technology allow
people to interact in new ways that were previously obscured by
geographical, economic or social boundaries.

6. Jobs that exist today will not necessarily exist when today’s
students finish school: Why do we insist on preparing students for
jobs that existed before they were born instead of for jobs that
will exist when they finish school?

7. An ageing population: Advances in sanitation, nutrition and medicine
have extended life expectancy in many countries. The life span,
about 127, is now the object of research and development. Should
people be helped to live 2,500 years, or even “forever”?

8. Globalization: Tom Friedman is right. The world is flat. The
phenomenon of globalization compels students and schools to compete
on a global scale.

9. Change is accelerating: The doubling time of information is now
under one year. In 20 years or less doubling time may drop to a few
weeks. If our cultural institutions don’t change at least as fast,
what will happen to our senses of identity and security? How can we
become situated in the future as much as the present or past?

10. The Singularity is almost here: Human-surpassing intelligence will
guarantee that the future is far more different than we can imagine.
Are we supplying students with the creative skills required to
thrive in a future that demands routine human creativity?