In the last episode of its fourth season, Folha na Sala this Tuesday (7) discusses the trends for the future of education and what the school of the future will be like.
Specialists point out that, contrary to what common sense expects, education should not be based purely on technology in the next decade, with computers replacing the teacher, remote classes and massive use of screens.
For them, the school should fill gaps left by the excess of technology and become a knowledge facilitator, educating for skills that robots cannot teach, such as empathy, cooperation and autonomy.
According to the futurist Rosa Alegria, the humanities should have an increasingly central role in this new school.
“We are losing that side of life that is disappearing and that it is important to be there. The forgetfulness that there is a planet, that there is air to breathe, that there are natural resources that sustain life. Excessive technology becomes a daydream, a little exaggerated utopia”.
Regarded as one of the great thinkers of education today, Portuguese José Pacheco, founder of Escola da Ponte, says he doesn’t like to think about the future, as the future is always being postponed, he prefers to discuss the school of now.
“I’m talking about 21st century education, it’s no longer student-centered, it’s no longer youth protagonism. They are learning subjects in the context of a community subject to learning, in the context of the community. In other words, the center is not exists. What exists is the relationship”.
For him, it is necessary to break away from the school formats that refer to the 19th century, with classes, classes and teachers as the holders of knowledge.
If the school will undergo changes, the teaching profession will also reinvent itself. The teacher is no longer the content reproducer, who says what is right and wrong, to be a content curator and learning mediator, with a universe of technological resources at his disposal.
“The teacher will be seen as a learning experience designer. He has to have this ability to combine all these resources to create interesting learning experiences. In the past, there were two or three. Today we have 15, 20 of these things”, says the professor Paulo Blikstein, professor at Columbia University in New York.
In its fourth season, Folha na Sala addressed, in nine fortnightly episodes, what it means to be a good teacher, what image society, peers and students have of an excellent teacher and what public policies train better professionals in the classroom.
The podcast is a partnership between Folha and Itaú Social. The program is presented by journalists Ricardo Ampudia and Juliana Deodoro. The coordination was by Angela Pinho, Fábio Takahashi and Magê Flores. Sound editing is by Stefano Maccarini.
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