The Biggest Challenge or Opportunity Kids Today Face
Our world is changing dynamically every day. Every aspect of life is changed except our education system. This poses a lot of challenges such as lack of quality education, outdated syllabus, lack of talented teachers. The biggest challenge that kids face today is our education system itself. The education system still believes in age-based grading (K to 12 methods) and focus on academics in a rat race method. The “One size fits all” approach followed in most schools is considered inappropriate by many experts as some children are good in art, some are good in science, some are fast learners some are slow learners. Also, the old passive method of teaching eg. lectures doesn’t interest the tech-addicted students. Memorization of facts is given more importance than understanding and critically analyzing. Irrelevant education in relation to the job market is creating more unemployment. Amongst all these challenges, yet there is an opportunity and that is technology. The growing technology