What is There for Students In The Future

To disperse the world through, a lot is implied in the content areas that we choose. That’s necessarily what classes and content areas are–perspectives to make sense of the world. The words and phrases which we now associate with teachers, schools, and assignments showcase our priority as a culture. This is the information and thinking we value and want our children to understand. It also implies what we think is applicable, presumably.

 

Students move from kindergarten to XIIth standard, content changes. In general, the kinds of things we ask our 2nd graders for studying is very similar to what we have our high school seniors study. In classic education in some parts of the world, content areas were essentially divided into three categories–Grammar, Logic, and Rhetoric.

 

Grammar is to teach the students basic of language which is the symbols we use to label the world. Logic is to teach analysis and relationships between those symbols. Rhetoric is to teach students the fine art of manipulation–argument, theories, and, well, manipulation. The “trivium” was created to precede the Quadrivium which are the four ways including Arithmetic, Geometry, Music, & Astronomy. After tackling literacy and analysis as younger students, older students shifted to systems of analysis. Somehow, many schools in modern times have settled on the Humanities and STEM, with courses of North American students including English, Math, Science, and Social Studies as a kind of core. These are curated by experts into standards which are then formed into curriculum, units, and lessons.

 

Teachers mix these with iconic ideas like the quadratic equation, the water cycle, and William Faulkner’s use of symbolism. By this method, they become the face of what students learn.

 

For instance, consider science. What is now a “class” was once a world-shifting way of thinking about the world which helped spur the Age of Enlightenment, and in many different ways derailed theology and character training as the drivers of education. Advancement in technology enabled the growth of science. Similarly, the extremely rapid growth of technology today is impacting our perspectives, tools, and priorities.  Of course, any response at all about this is pure speculation, but if we draw an arc from classical approaches to the Dewey approach to what might be next–factoring in social values, technology change, and criticisms of the currently existing model, we might get a pretty decent answer.

 

There are 8 content areas for the students of the future:

 

1. Literacy

2. Patterns

3. Systems

4. Design

5. Citizenship

6. Data

7. Research

 

 

By: Preeti Narula

Content: https://www.teachthought.com/the-future-of-learning/what-students-will-learn-in-the-future/