The Fliptech Classroom just got real

I believe every learner dreams of the day he or she will get to teach their teachers. Well, this day arrived sooner than the world thought.

Technology made digital pedagogy possible. Although there are many political and cultural obstacles, new technology still manages the find the gap in the market. Technology grows beyond any obstacles. This is what everyone wants for a school learner as well. To excel beyond their circumstances and everyone’s expectations of them. So let’s bring technology and the learner closer to each other.

Let’s look at a cultural obstacle of technology. Due to rural and urban areas, children do not have the same privileges. And at the end of the day this can also be because of education. People with a good education can afford to live the lives they dream of. Thus, is it clear that there is still a pothole in the education system, because the gap between poor and rich keeps on rising. It is time for the real world to join the party, because education is key.

Not every teacher is in favour of digital pedagogy, because they are too conservative and use to traditional ways of teaching. On the other hand, is technology improving by the day and learners are getting smarter than their teachers all because of it. So technology allows the learner to teach and the teacher to learn. For those old-fashioned teachers their job will remain dictated. But, the more modernized teacher will become more socially engaged with the learners and the technology.

Technology today is mostly social media. Everything can be controlled by an application on a smart- or android phone. Students take social media as a part of their everyday lives. Which, education is too. With technology and digital pedagogy these two priorities can be merged into one. Instead of the learners taking time from their school work to spend time on social media.

Let’s flip the classroom, exchange the roles and built a better future. Some of the world’s famous entrepreneurs became famous because the thought of school frustrated them and they are the same ones that invented and developed the most breath-taking technology. Bill Gates and Steve Jobs are only a few too mention.

So let’s stop irritating the learners and give them what they are good at and enjoying. Let’s teach that 4-year old with an IPad throughout his or her journey of learning.