"Although all schools are forced to return to normal, to the education that everyone had," writes Yong Zhao (7 page PDF), "it would be shameful to lose what COVID gave us in education." What did the pandemic give us? It showed, first, that students can learn online, which means "there is no need for teachers to instruct." And second, "when students are provided opportunities to engage in self-determined learning, they are intrinsically motivated." This, he says, allows teachers to focus on their core tasks: first, "serving as a talent coach for each and every student," second, "to become a community organizer," third, to "be a project manager" to help students identify and solve problems, fourth, "to find and curate resources", and fifth, to be "a human educator instead of an instructional machine" with "his or her strengths and passions." Image: WEF.
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