In the past few weeks I started thinking and researching on Teaching and how we could rethink it to make it cope with demands of this age. Only after chatting with my colleague, Kelvin, my approach to tackling the problem really changed. We were able to bounce off ideas and really look at the problem from completely different perspectives. It helped me realize the wickedness of the problem.
As a group, we defined our common ideas and decided to focus on a few key questions. We decided to focus on the problem from the end of mind. In other words: what does the market need? Be it corporate, entrepreneurship, government, etc. What are the key skills that we need the rising generation to have? The other key idea was to identify the core reasons behind the wickedness of rethinking education; why is it harder than it seams?
Below, I illustrate the problem in an infographic that pinpoints the core of our approach to rethink current teaching. It is made simple and short to keep the central goal highlighted.
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Hanan Alshikh 