In this time of virtuality, vertiginousness, conflict, artificial intelligence, culture of having and aesthetics, simultaneity between the real and the virtual, etc. Educators must ask ourselves: what to teach?, based on the premise that we must teach for life from a humanistic education where social skills are preponderant and necessary.
Education in our schools is questioned by virtuality and artificial intelligence coupled with the pandemic that still has the emotional consequences that landed in schools, all this is not contemplated in traditional education; Emotionality is the most demanded by students and teachers to be able to resolve coexistence in schools in a positive way; the demand is to contain emotionally in order to later be able to teach accepting that the student really apprehends what moves him emotionally; In short, we must prepare the emotional ground for the student to want to learn, we cannot force them to learn but rather generate the desire to promote learning.
Memory is supported by virtuality and now artificial intelligence is also in charge of reasoning, activities that were exclusive to classroom spaces; It is already evident that we cannot teach how we were taught.
In the age of Google, in which we can access information about practically everything in any Internet search engine, it is not necessary for our schools to teach knowledge, but rather to teach information processing and encourage creativity. What one knows is less and less important, and what one can do with what one knows is more and more important, develop critical thinking, the ability to solve problems, work in a team, persevere in their projects, take risks, learn from their failures and not be intimidated by the latter, when you fail you are learning, I place so much emphasis on failures because we must teach tolerance for frustration to forge an entrepreneurial personality.
How to improve our schools? We are limiting our focus to thinking about how to improve our educational system. But if instead of asking ourselves that question, we refocus on our final goal, and we ask ourselves how to better educate our children and young people and prepare them for life, contemplating all the emotional aspects thinking about a future society, we will achieve much more creative schools, containers, contemplating all sociocultural demands learning to value the human person above all, virtuality is very useful when used well, that good use depends on how we educate our students emotionally.
Emotional education aims to help adopt behaviors appropriate to the natural or virtual stimuli we receive in a given context by developing social skills, impulsivity control, expression of emotions. By assessing emotional states, adaptive behaviors of good social coexistence are obtained.
Although we have highlighted and analyzed the benefits of virtuality, we must keep in mind that the essential thing for entering knowledge is good preparation in reading and writing, that the children’s thinking can be turned into a text is a multiple mental exercise. benefits such as being able to interpret what is being read, I may be saying the obvious but sometimes we ignore the obvious, reading and writing is the backbone of learning, from any subject we must stimulate and perfect it. Being able to write down ideas, thoughts and feelings is a very useful emotional catalyst. It is necessary that children find pleasure in reading before using the screens, the screen gives us a concrete thought and reading an abstract thought that leads us to navigate the world, if we concentrate on reading our mind is located in time and space of the description that we are reading, for this and much more the importance of reading and writing.
So, in the information age and all the access to it, as educators we must place ourselves in the middle of the road between what already interests our students and what would be good for them to be interested in, generating the desire to learn; associating learning with everyday life, offering various types of experiences, making them feel competent, showing enthusiasm for learning, concentrating on the process, seeing the positive part of mistakes; In short, teach for life.
Dear readers, in these few lines I have tried to show the challenges in which we find ourselves immersed in today’s world, and the direction that education must take, concentrating on today to chart the future of our children and young people. Until next time!
Embrace of Peace
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Lic. Carlos Sigvardt, Vice President of the Emotional Education Foundation. Trainer, lecturer and advisor on Emotional Education at a national and international level.
Photographs: courtesy of Florencia Valdez
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