Challenge to Educators by Mirza Yawar Baig

1. Challenges for Educators
Thought Share

2. Today I will teach like I’ve never taught before.

3. 1. For how many of you is it a teacher?
2. What do you think your students would say if they
were here and I asked them the same question?
Think of your Role Model
Does this matter at all?

4. 1. When someone studies something for 15 years?
2. Why then does nothing happen when our children study
in our schools for 15 years?
3. If you are concerned, what have you done to change this
system?
What must happen?
What are you preparing the children for?

5. 1. What would change as a result of this?
2. What would be the cost to you?
3. Do you think it will be worth it?
What if you changed?
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Why are you a teacher?

6. 1. Every day parents come to your door and hand
over to you their most precious assets
2. What do you do with them?
Something strange
Do you see this as a
responsibility in this way?

7. The first casualty of schooling is
imagination.
The second is independence.
Confidence dies on its own of a
broken heart.
This is called Graduation.

8. Our schooling slaughters
imagination at the altar of
practicality.
Practicality is defined by the past.
Imagination defines the future.

9. There's no demand until you show
possibilities.
So imagination is far more
important than intelligence.
IQ should mean Imagination
Quotient.

10. 1. Google processes 100 billion searches a month
2. That’s an average of 40,000 searches per second
3. Every day, 15% (new): never been asked before
Google Statistics
Curiosity is stimulated when there are answers

11. 1. Sugata Mitra’s experiments with teaching children to
operate computers show that teachers are not
necessary
2. With almost everything you need to know, available
on the net, free, why do we need teachers?
Are teachers necessary?
For what do we need teachers?

12. 1. https://www.khanacademy.org/
2. https://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm
3. https://www.extension.harvard.edu/open-learning-initiative
4. https://www.ted.com/talks/sugata_mitra_shows_how_kids_
teach_themselves?language=en
5. https://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_
creativity
AI & Open Source material
All you need is curiosity and the will to learn

13. 1. Knowledge
1. Tools to acquire, understand & process information
2. Skills
1. To produce a saleable product or service
3. Personal Development
1. Ethics, Morals, Manners, Relationships
Divide Education into…
Literacy, Numeracy & Money

14. 1. Facilitate self-learning by teaching through projects
2. Guide by asking intelligent questions
3. Be open to new conclusions and ideas
4. Help them to integrate different areas of
knowledge to reach applicable solutions
Integrated Teaching
Be prepared to learn yourself

15. 1. There are two kinds of people:
 Influencers & Consumers
2. They have very different trajectories & endings
3. What must you do as a teacher/parent to move yourself
and your children/students to become Influencers?
What does this mean?
What is the cost of not changing?

16. 1. For those who aspire to lead in this world, how does
our education prepare them to do that?
2. What must change in our attitudes, methods & focus
with respect to technology & education?
3. What does that mean in terms of investment & pain?
Big question
Are we ready? If not, what is the alternative?

17. Our
Challenge??

18. Because today’s ‘great idea’ can
become tomorrow’s problem
To solve problems that we don’t
even know as ‘problems’ yet

19. 19
Boon or Bane?

20. Our biggest need therefore
CURIOSITY &
IMAGINATION

21. But our schools
destroy it in the child
as quickly as they can
Our system
rewards compliance
and punishes originality

22. What is your metric?
What do you do with
curiosity & imagination in
your school?

23. Our problems are not due to
lack of knowledge or
technology but due to a lack of
compassion

24. Children listen with their
eyes

25. K. Kuruvilla Jacob

26. 1. What are your children seeing every day when they are
with you?
2. Would you be happy with a teacher like yourself for your
own child?
3. Are you an aspirational teacher the child will remember
and mention with honor when he is 50 years old?
Seeing
What is the data to support your answer?

27. You can only give what you
have. So, what do you have?

28. 1. What did you do in the last 6 months to develop
yourself?
2. What is the measurement of that?
3. What did you invest?
4. What is your investment plan in self-development for the
next 6 months?
What do you have?
If it is not written down, it doesn’t exist

29. What do you want to be
remembered for?
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