Did the We Learn Changed??

Did the We Learn Changed??

Keep Up with the World's expectations 

With the prosperous success of the Internet to provide knowledge about any topic at any time to anybody, the world starts to expect more from individuals! Orders like look up this or investigate that would face individuals very often. Also, as people need to retain their jobs and learn to evolve, they must learn solo at some point in their life. I feel like the ability to learn on one's own self is a criterion many successful people seem to master! Steve jobs, the man behind the iPad I am still fascinated with had no college degree! Going back to our main point here, is our education system serving this need and preparing people for that? No, not at all! Many people came to believe that, so they changed their perspective completely! They way our brain works may still be the same, but we want to change the way we are being schooled to turn learning into a lifelong process of personified situation or interest based improvement.

The Need to Stand Out

A while back blending in was the dream! Everyone wanted the same thing! Now people like to stand out. If you browse Instagram for an hour, you will see individuality celebrated there. People dye their hair blue, come up with new kind of food or dress up differently! By many standards, many of those are considered successful! Individuality should be watered at a very young age. Schools with their same uniform, same schedule and setting every single day, same text book to all, same test regardless of ones skills or interests seem to crush people's need to stand out. Many people rebel against formal education. Many highly successful Youtupers are college dropouts, and some of them chose to be homeschooled for high school. I know that for being personally a big believer in learning from peers! I learn a lot by seeing others’ actions and reflecting upon them. Again the change may not be in our biology, but it is in our will! Rigid factory- like - as Seth Godin would say- look at formal education does not sound appealing anymore.  

The Abundance of Mediums and Personal Preferences

Today's Leaners

Picture source: http://resources.xyleme.com/h/i/122633507-how-can-l-d-engage-the-modern-learner

Today schools may still want one single textbook to be the core knowledge provider and paper assessment as the scaffolding method. In our pocket as the picture illustrates, we have access to millions of sources of information, and we can extend the conversation across countries and involve experts, yet we expect students to be satisfied with this obligatory unexplainable desire to go small. Some of those students do all their writing on their laptops, others on their iPads, others learn by mind mapping or sketching, and some need no more than their mobile devices to complete an assignment. Therefore, what's the next teachers' choice in terms of pedagogy? It is a difficult question for teachers because students should have a say in what would make them give their best. They answers will vary and all different mediums could be embraced in a new frame of education. The one size fit all over and over again, education system needs to be tailored to satisfy and go a long with the era today’s students happen to be in.

References( Only to gain knowledge used my own words):

Godin, Seth, and Jessica Hagy. Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? 2011. Print.
Prensky, Mark. ''Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants.'' 2001. On the Horizon 9, 5, MCB University Press.
McLoughlin C. & Lee M. ''Personalized and self regulated learning in the Web 2.0 era: International exemplars of innovative pedagogy using social software'' (2010). Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 26(1), 28-43. 


Further readings on today's learner:

How can L&D Engage the Modern Learner?

http://resources.xyleme.com/h/i/122633507-how-can-l-d-engage-the-modern-learner

Understanding Today's Learner

http://www.learningsolutionsmag.com/articles/80/