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WLL01: Learning with WhatsApp, other Mobile Apps and MOOCs I have created a set of 4 weeklong WhatsApp courses to facilitate this transition. Such a learner has many more opportunities for learning, going beyond the confines of the classroom. For such a learner, learning has changed from a spectator sport to a participative one. The first aspect of paradigm shift is the transformation of the disinterested and passive learner ( who has to be compulsorily educated to acquire minimum levels of learning) to an active self- motivated and self-directed learner with an immense curiosity and a virtually insatiable appetite for learning that lasts a lifetime. The parents of young learners also have an important role, and they are learners too as lifelong learners. Students and teachers are the primary stakeholders in any educational system. For these 10 skills and two more skills of Computational Thinking and First Principles, I have created a suite of 12 WhatsApp weekend courses whose details are available at: Referring to the need for new skills in the 4th Industrial Age, the WEF has listed 10 top skills for 2020 and beyond. There are several manifestations of this paradigm shift, but in this post, I will confine myself to a few important elements, where I have created some approaches to align education to the future needs and expectations. And like the proverbial last straw on the camel’s back, we had this unexpected Covid 19 pandemic. Fundamental paradigm shifts in the education and learning domain are therefore inevitable. I strongly urge all educators to read this book, where two important assertions by him are that there have been only 3 education revolutions so far, and that education is the Cinderella of the AI story. In the field of education and learning we are witnessing two major revolutions, the 4th Industrial Revolution which was heralded by Prof Klaus Schwab at the World Economic Forum in January 2016 and the 4th education revolution, which is the title of a 2018 book by Sir Anthony Seldon. The Darwinian theory of evolution of species and Alfred Wegener’s theory of tectonic plates are similar paradigm shifts as are Quantum principles.Ĭlayton Christensen went beyond the focus on Scientific Research and referred to similar trends in innovation as ‘incremental’ or ‘disruptive’. He took the example of the Copernican revolution to make his point. Kuhn’s view was that a ‘paradigm shift’ was not a logically determinate procedure.

Kuhn argued for an episodic model in which periods of conceptual continuity, which Kuhn referred to as periods of ” normal science”, were interrupted by periods of revolutionary science. The phrase ‘paradigm shift’ gained traction from the well known book (1962) by Thomas Kuhn “ The structure of Scientific Revolutions” which challenged the earlier view that Science progressed almost linearly as “development-by-accumulation” of accepted facts and theories.

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