The Fourth Industrial Revolution in Education

Niño Jericho D. Canlas

The Fourth Industrial Revolution embodies an important change in the way we learn, live and work. It brings a new period in human advancement, supported by incredible technological advancement. This advancement emerges the physical, digital and biological aspects in the fashion of today’s lifestyle and crafts new ways of living. However, it can also potentially create threat to the natural ways of how the earth revolves.

This revolution is not just about technological-driven advancement; it is also a way to create a new opportunity to help people from all sects, groups and nations. It aims to utilize existing technology in order to create a world that is only imagined many years ago. The real purpose is to look beyond technological advancement, and look for new ways to provide people the ability to innovate and positively change their own lives, their families and their communities.

This revolution brings new possibilities, employment opportunities, global solutions to emerging challenges as well as new educational trends that enables educational institutions to produce more globally competitive and innovative generation of professionals and leaders. The world is currently facing global crisis such as the unending problem brought by climate change, rapid increase of population, global pandemics that greatly affects socio-economic status of various countries. With the idea and advancement of this revolution, the Educators and the Governments can now prepare a future generation that will thrive to this rapidly changing world.

Education is the best weapon to prepare present and future generation become more adaptive to the rapid changes and big challenges that the world is facing. Hence, it is important to establish an educational system that will equip learners a skill and a potential to better become a better version of themselves rather than learners who are less competent than a machine. The world needs an educational system that allows learners to build and transform the economy with innovation and advancement – from a system of pen and paper to a system of applications to the real world.

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The author is Teacher I at Nuestra Señora Del Pilar integrated Schoool