What I Think

 

We are at a point where governments are struggling to fund education properly and students are still being taught in a facts based curriculum that is meant to ready them to work in factories. As we are now in the Fourth Industrial Revolution, students need to learn to be creators, collaborators and think outside the box. This will require a fundamental shift in how we do the business of education and districts and governments will need to get on board with this shift sooner, rather than later, or get left behind.

 

To fund this change, Public-Private Partnerships seem to be the best way forward, but school districts will have to be careful when approaching these partnerships. I believe these partnerships are the area where we have to tread carefully. Through these partnerships, we must not give businesses too much influence. We must not allow businesses to simply create future consumers of their products. I think we need to work carefully to establish strategic partnerships where businesses are willing to provide funds and assistance in order to create thinkers of the future that will benefit an increasingly technological society. 

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Educators also need the ability to streamline their classrooms and not have too many apps and programs that need to be used on a daily basis. I have always wanted to see a bunch of the apps we use in classrooms combined into one, easy to use, all encompassing app and this is where the idea for EduSpace came from. Knowledge is becoming more mobile and education needs to follow.