How well prepared are schools to teach the Alphas?
Mohammed Thariq Reefath Grade 6 Abu Dhabi Indian SchoolAl Wathba
When it gets to making choices, Alphas won’t be looking for a broad education anymore. They would also not follow any strict curriculum. Instead, they may be interested in a deeper learning of particular topic areas’, that is much better than the present curriculum. As they are a generation born in front of screens and artificial intelligence, they will have better talent than the previous generations in developing literary skills, numeric skills and problem-solving.
Karan Sinnamari Our Own English High school Fujairah
In a few years, we are going to see many students with only gadgets rather than textbooks and notebooks. The pain of children who carry 5-6kg of schoolbags will go away in future and kids will use tablets weighing only 5-6g. In the UAE schools, such initiatives have already been taken in the form of BYOD (bring your own device). I hope, in future, all schools will start using gadgets and the education industry will totally be technologically accessed.
Dhanvi Sayani Grade-8 Gems Our Own English High School, Dubai
The Generation Alpha would want a unique method of learning with lots of practical examples and experiments. The future education for them would be more virtual than real. Educationists should be well prepared to take this as a challenge because nothing normal is going to be enough for this generation. Teachers must remember that they are teaching a generation that is going to take over the world next.
Hritika Tripathi Delhi Private School, Sharjah
My brother is part of the Alpha generation and I can see the difference in the study between myself and my brother — books replaced by e-books and exams replaced by online exams. Born to digital technology, Alphas will be the wealthiest, the most intensely educated and most dynamic generation that human society has yet seen. Alphas will bring challenges and dangers as well as new hope. Alphas will be blessed in many ways, able to benefit from a world created by previous generations.