This is the script that I wrote to make videos about the education in post-corona era, and I want to share it in this website.
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What? Are you worried about how to be an ideal human resource that will be required in the post-corona era?
What? Are you worried about how to educate your children in the completely different future that you will face after COVID-19?
Then you should watch this video. We are going to precisely, but also deeply, talk about what kind of qualities should ideal future human resources possess, and also the corresponding direction that education should newly adopt.
Let’s talk about the direction of education roughly. The aim of most public education was at teaching students general knowledge written in textbooks. However, as COVID-19 has accelerated upheavals, textbook knowledge is not enough to provide the power or ability to weather a rapidly changing era. Recently, when people think about the direction of education, they just focus on if face-to-face classes are better than face-to-screen classes are better. However, we should focus on the more radical meaning of education, not the way it is delivered. The purpose of education never changes. it is about making people’s lives better. Now, in this new era, teachers have to teach wisdom beyond knowledge, which can help students in various aspects of life to build good infra for their life. The domain of education should be enlarged from knowledge to wisdom.
A self-controlling ability is one of the indispensable qualities that future leaders should possess. As COVID-19 spread rapidly, social distancing policies were implemented, so the word ‘non-contact’ has pervaded modern people’s life. The new era of technology, which was predicted to start gradually, emerged earlier because of COVID-19, and it is influencing the world at an accelerated speed. Now, surrounded by advanced technology people find it hard to pursue their visions, for there are so many temptations existing. Especially, because young students are more vulnerable to electronic devices with strong addictiveness, they need to nurture self-controlling ability which not letting them be put under technology’s control but giving them the power to govern the advanced technology.
Accordingly, the direction of education should be set to make students the masters of technology, not the slaves of it. Therefore, education should be provided to teach students the wisdom to design life, ways to manage oneself systematically, and the virtue of moderation.
Secondly, future leaders must acquire adaptability and creativity based on integration skills. This corona pandemic has brought up how this world is extremely prone to both positive and negative changes. Therefore, modification along the social changes became an indispensable element in our continuous development, especially in the post-corona era where relapsing remains uncertain. To further illustrate, let’s talk about integration skills. Integration skill allows people to connect different knowledge from various subjects and converge them to perceive a big picture, which makes them possible to easily come up with new ideas to solve problems. Despite the fact that integration comes from having basic knowledge, education has to be more than just passing students the knowledge; it should rather provide students opportunities to address a topic through the lenses of several areas of the subject and to plan collaboratively for the numerous unit. This integrated curriculum often allows the student to bring up their adaptability and creativity. For example, Mercedes F1, the company that used to make racing cars, shifted its flagship product to breathing aids that have been successful in patient recovery from COVID-19. Their success was based on being flexible enough to become bold to take risks and realize their creative plan. Education, have to put its effort into providing students with a growth mindset, which ensures them challenge themselves and take risks flexibly according to the situation.
The ability to cooperate has been one of the qualities considered crucial until now, but it will stand out even more in the future world that Corona has changed. The whole world faced difficulties. More than 90 countries have requested the IMF for emergency financial aid, and there were huge rises in unemployment rates. People lost their jobs and also, they had to see their lovers passing away. In this situation, it is more important for the community to work together. The recent direction of education mostly focused on making individuals’ lives successful. However, it is more important to teach them the importance of cooperation and community. From COVID-19, we realized that the community is deeply connected. If my neighbor got the virus, then I also got that virus. The community has the power to make positive changes and heal the world, and the power to lead the community belongs to each individual who makes up the community. Education should teach people that being together is such an important thing to pursue, and raise future leaders who can lead and work for the community.
Writer: Minji Kim (Clara)
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