English corner - Education and the future: Leave no one behind ( the voice of the students)

Education and the future

In the English class we discussed the evolution and some fundamental changes in Education – From a privilege to a fundamental human right. And we asked for student’s opinions on the following:

 Do you think the slogan DO NOT LEAVE ANYONE BEHIND (from the educational campaign related to the SDG - 4 Education) is a reality or a goal?

How do you imagine school education will be like in a near future?

Here are some of the opinions they shared.

I think it is a goal, because in many countries, for example in Africa, not everyone can go to school or must walk many kilometres. Unfortunately, there is also a lot of exploitation of children for labour and this prevents them from being able to go to school.

I think that education will improve in time. This is supposed to be the objective. Technology will be more and more advanced, and I even think that one day students will not even have to write by hand anymore, but on tablets and computers and even other things they will probably invent.

Bruno and Nuno

 

DO NOT LEAVE ANYONE BEHIND is a goal that we all have to work together to achieve, because that is the only way to improve our world. In a near future, we envisioned a fairer teaching model, in which students demonstrate their abilities in various ways with both practical and theoretical activities, leaving the old question and answer method to the past, showing the student that grades are not the most important thing, but instead their development as a productive person for modern society, which goes along with the development of technologies.

The teaching method will also be different.  Teachers would not only be based on the teaching model imposed by the General Board of Education, they would adapt the teaching method to each class, making the student interested in learning.

Finally, another big change will be the introduction of the student to the job market. Students would try out various jobs and learn the ropes. This would give the students confidence in choosing what they wanted to do in the future and this way they would do something that they were really good at.

 

Maria Serafim, Joana Martins and Sofia Gomes nº30

 

I believe it’s a goal. Many students are unable to keep up, sometimes not even being their own fault. This is a goal that we need to achieve.

I imagine [school] it’ll be pretty much the same as nowadays, except that technologies and the internet would be used more than they are currently.

Jorge Lima and Rodrigo Gomez

 

For us the slogan DO NOT LEAVE ANYONE BEHIND is a goal because there is still plenty of people who were left behind for not having the possibility of sustaining the costs that the internet requires.

Well, the school will improve and at some point everyone will have access to all learning tools and the books will be replaced by e-book so, in conclusion, school will go through a big change and technology will start to be more present too.

 

Margarida Pinteus and  Matilde Costa

 

In our opinion, this slogan is a goal, because in reality there are still people who are socially excluded, in terms of their own loneliness, mental illness, etc.

We may come to use only technology as a means of study. Nowadays we use sheets, notebooks, pens etc. In the future, we’ll have a huge availability and a massive use of [learning] technology.

In the near future, we hope that we will only use technological means in education.

 

Guilherme Silva, Tomás Silva  and Ricardo Gonçalves